s-s-s-www-a-aammp i-iss gg-grr-eaatt !!

[d@rker]

yes , the swamp is a great looking level but...

... have you noticed the slow performance sometimes ?

 

i've been playing the game with 1.1 athlon with quincux aa and aniso @ 4tap @ 800x600x32 ,max detail w/ simple shadows and it's only in the swamp level it stutters.

so ... i've purchased an xp1800+ and ... i get the same !!

i haven't tried without aa or/and aniso but i was expecting a better performance even so !

 

if this is an indication of games to come (!this year!) i can see myself in game's settings menu :

 

detail - med

shadows - none

detailed textures - off

filtering - bilinear

antialiasing - off

screen resolution - 640x480x32

sound quality - low

 

i'm starting to be very affraid of game coders .

 

btw no problem with other games like mohaa ,cc:renegade comanche4 ,rtcw ,soul reaver2 @ 1024 w/ max detail ...and quincux & aniso .

 

 

...anyone ?

 

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[Demolisher]

A lot of us with high end machines are getting slow performance in the swamp. I agree with you, lowering the settings sucks and is not what anyone wants to do.

 

Also, the swamp is slow that the force does not affect swamptroopers. Something has got to be preventing them from being pulled and pushed in the water.

[Squeetard]

My gf3 dropped some in the swamps. To be expected with all the waving foliage. But when I zoomed in the disrupter it went to either 9 or 12 fps and stayed there. Every time I tried it. Strange?

[NewBJedi]

Originally posted by d@rker

i've been playing the game with 1.1 athlon with quincux aa and aniso @ 4tap @ 800x600x32 ,max detail w/ simple shadows and

 

There you go.

 

quincux aa and aniso @ 4tap will chew up any framerates.

 

I run most games - if possible, at 800x600x16 - medium/low geometry, medium textures.

 

1.5 gig athlon, GF3, 512mb RAM, SB Audigy, XP-Pro.

 

Try 16 bit color, it's huge performance boost and you may not notice the color difference at all.

 

Question - Do you really need AA? If so, that's going to hurt any game.

[Pvt_Dancer]

I am still running just a geforce 256 and I had troubles too... but thats more understandable. Most of the game ran fine in high detail and textures at 1024. When I got to the swamp though I had to lower those and the resolution to get it to run well enough to play.

 

I had no problem with the force... I was chocking and pushing and pulling and casting lightning over the waters... (random thought be cool if there were pockets of green methane swamp gas that would explode if you cast lightning through them).

[Shadow_Drone]

None of you know the sheer challenge of getting through the swamp on a system thats nearly at the minimum specs.

 

 

AMD K6-2 450MHZ

64 MB PC100 SDRAM

Voodoo3 2000 PCI

 

 

 

 

you get the picture.

 

 

that was by far one of the hardest parts of the game for me.

 

 

It was all worth it in the end though.