Smitty Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 Well I have had JO now for almost 24 hours. And I have played it enough to offer these initial observations. Overall, I love the game, glad I bought it. The SP side seems fun and engaging, much like JKII was. No complaints, my framerate hovers around 40-50fps and goes as low as mid 30's. I know that is terrible compared to you guys with 1 or 2 mhz machines with the 64MB blow it out your butt graphics card but it works good enough for me. The maps so far are great and the puzzles I like. I do hope that the system will allow some you guys to create new missions or something. I am sure I will blow through the SP in a few weeks (I am a 'scheduled player' and love it). Oh, btw, my specs -> P3 500Mhz Dell, 384MB memory, 16MB Riva TNT graphics, 7200rpm hd, sound, etc. I tried MP online last night. I was greatly disappointed and I am sure someone will tell me the reason why. The main problem was FPS. It would drop all the way down to 5, 6, 7 FPS when I was out there doing the nasty. Even if I hid and stared at a wall it really never got beyond 30 or so. Too bad, because it looked like a bunch of fun!!! The maps I tried worked well and were very functional. But the FPS was terrible. For measure I tried a MP game not online (I was server, password protected, one human player) and the FPS was much better (more like SP) and was a blast. Again, overall I love this game, I am pleased that I bought it and plan on many hours of enjoyment. The performance on my system in SP is very acceptable and exciting. Now for those who have more knowledge tham me, maybe you can help.... I have a cable modem and the avg speed is 1.5MB based upon several speed testing sites (yes, cleared caches, etc.). So that is not the problem. As a point of reference, I play Unreal Tournament (UT) on line a bunch and it is smooth as silk. I am running JO at 640x480, low settings, etc. The list of servers show ping times well below 100 on many of the servers and those are the ones I tried. As I mentioned, the MP FPS is terrible. Any ideas why or what I could do to help it (other than buy a who new machine). I was curious if a more modern GeForce type graphics card would help but I fail to understand why that would help when online MP is slow but SP and non online MP is not? If I cannot get better performance in online MP it will not be the end of the world as I thouroughly enjoy UT and like the way that engine plays more than the Q3 engine. Thanks, Smitty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ps2maddenman Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 Hey Smitty, maybe you need to test your internet speed by clicking here I have found that my internet cable modem speed is not as fast around 6-10pm because more people are on my router (online) at that time, but so far the connection speeds are great (under 200 ping) for me if I pick a server with low ping. but also remember that Raven will probably release a patch to help improve the net speeds. Cya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitty Posted March 29, 2002 Author Share Posted March 29, 2002 Thanks for the feedback. Actually that is one of the sites I use to test my speed occasionally. I do hope something can be done. I know a whole new system will do it But the wife would not agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlemane Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 Make sure you modem speed is set to cable and not 56.6 in the server selection screen. That coudl be your problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.