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everyplace Noir
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Join date: 25 Dec 2003
Posts: 1
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12-26-2003 06:33
I'm using a powerbook g4 867 768 MB ram 32 MB vram 15". I have all of the settings turned down to their minimum, with no textures for land or anything.
In dense areas of architecture or people, I'm lucky if I go faster than 1 fps. Even in completely barren lands I get around 25 fps max.
I'm on a ridiculously fast connection, so I know that's not the problem. Is this slow performance due to my machine, or due to the mac alpha in general? Are there any mac users out there that get consistently high framerates?
-everyplace
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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
Posts: 477
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Re: Low FPS?
12-26-2003 11:18
From: someone Originally posted by everyplace Noir
I'm using a powerbook g4 867 768 MB ram 32 MB vram 15". I have all of the settings turned down to their minimum, with no textures for land or anything.
In dense areas of architecture or people, I'm lucky if I go faster than 1 fps. Even in completely barren lands I get around 25 fps max.
I'm on a ridiculously fast connection, so I know that's not the problem. Is this slow performance due to my machine, or due to the mac alpha in general? Are there any mac users out there that get consistently high framerates?
-everyplace 32mb of vram on what video chipset?
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Bino Arbuckle
Registered User
Join date: 31 Dec 2002
Posts: 369
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12-26-2003 21:28
Most likely an ATI 9200 or an nVidia GF4MX.
This seems to be general amongst Mac users who do not meet the minimum requirements (G4 1GHz, 512 ram, 32mb ATI 8500 or nVidia GF2MX). And even sometimes amongst those who do.
SL is not a high framerate game in any case, as it doesn't utilize the video card the same way most games do, and is fairly CPU bound.
Hopefully with more optimizations to the program (Altivec anyone?) we'll see more FPS.
My ranges have typically been 1-15fps, depending on the amount of change going on in the viewer.
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StarManta Perkins
Junior Member
Join date: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 2
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01-14-2004 11:56
mine varies from day to day; the first day, i was lucky to get 4 fps; the second day, i was over ten; now i'm getting around 8.
Probably has something to do with what apps I'm running in the background.... /shrug
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