Hey everyone,
I have decided to release this information as I have finally worked out how to stop the viewer from acting up while exploring and building on the grid.
This has been tried and tested on a iMac Intel 2.16ghz G5 (White), Mac Book Pro Intel 2.0ghz (1st Gen) and a new Mac Mini Intel 1.83ghz.
I am currently running the follow hardware:
iMac 2.16ghz Intel Core Duo 2(White w/iSight Camera)
2.5gb DDR 2 RAM
x1600 ATI Readon Graphics w/ 128mb RAM
Leopard 1.5.2 w/graphics update.
Alter these settings but I don't know if these settings will help with the newer iMacs or Mac Book Pros but it may help.
Network Settings: 500kbs (if you show slow internet activity alter between 200kb and 500kb)
Graphics:
Draw Distance, 96. Alter this lower but no higher than 128.
Advanced Graphics:
Disable Vertex Shader ( On all Macs this causes sluggish issues)
Object Mesh Details: Slider Half Way
Flexible Mesh Details: In between the half way marker.
Tree Mesh Details: In between the half way marker.
Avatar Mesh Details: In between the half way marker.
Simple example:
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Advanced Graphics:
Graphics Card memory: 64mb
Fog Distance: 2.0
Max. Particle Count: 1024
Outfit Composite Limit: 3
Audio & Video settings:
Disabling voice and streaming music and video will also save on bandwidth. I have been able to alter some of these settings and leave them higher on windows but it's just not doable on mac. I have found these settings give the best performance without killing the graphics and experience to much.
You can bitch and moan all you want about my settings and saying how you won't do it because you want to see everything perfect but to be honest if it's running poorly you are just going to moan about that so before you post any pointless negative comments try it before you feel like bitching.
I hope this is helpful for some people out there, like I said I don't know what this will be like on the newer macs which are having issues, please post your feedback and results as I would like to hear back from all of you that have managed to change the way you play this.
One last thing press control shift and 1 to view your fps settings, normally i get around 15 - 20 which i normally get around 3 fps on a general default setting.
- Fizz ( Urban Nation )