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Tinari Sieyes
Registered User
Join date: 14 Oct 2005
Posts: 1
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10-16-2005 01:53
I am a bit curious as to the quality of this games handling if my computer gets extremely choppy at times. But to be fair, I did run into most of my problems when inside buildings with several people. Athlon 64 3200+ Athlon X700 64MB 512MB DDR SDRAM Those are the things worth mentioning. To be fair, I had all the details maxxed, and I run it in a 1280x800 resolution. But when I jacked all the details to the lowest, my frames hardly increased at all. Hell, I can run Half-life 2 in full detail at 1024x768 faster than this most of the time.  Mainly it's in shopping malls with buildings all abound, places with high people concentration, or when people have "n00b with shiney object" syndrome and fire it off repeatedly.  |
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Bond Harrington
Kills Threads At 500yds
Join date: 15 May 2005
Posts: 198
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10-16-2005 03:21
From: Tinari Sieyes I am a bit curious as to the quality of this games handling if my computer gets extremely choppy at times. But to be fair, I did run into most of my problems when inside buildings with several people. Athlon 64 3200+ Athlon X700 64MB 512MB DDR SDRAM Those are the things worth mentioning. To be fair, I had all the details maxxed, and I run it in a 1280x800 resolution. But when I jacked all the details to the lowest, my frames hardly increased at all. Hell, I can run Half-life 2 in full detail at 1024x768 faster than this most of the time. Mainly it's in shopping malls with buildings all abound, places with high people concentration, or when people have "n00b with shiney object" syndrome and fire it off repeatedly. Believe it or not, Shiny has really no effect on fps. I've gotten maybe a less than 2 fps increase when turning that off. Aniscopic filtering and local lighting the biggest pains on fps. Turn off Local Lighting and Aniscopic Filtering unless you really need it, but definitely kill Terrain Detail. I have a P4 with 2GB RAM and a 256MB Nvidia card and I can play HL2 with no problems, too, but I had choppy quality in most areas until I turn those off. I've been getting 20-30fps now in places where I was getting 15 fps on average (In places where I was getting 20-30 before, I'm now getting around 40-50). Also, window mode helps in that case. |
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Janie Marlowe
Mischief Maker
Join date: 5 Apr 2005
Posts: 630
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10-16-2005 03:55
From: Bond Harrington Also, window mode helps in that case. playing in a window rather than full screen is helpful? |
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Lee Linden
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Join date: 31 Dec 1969
Posts: 743
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10-17-2005 13:45
Second Life isn't a game, so don't turn all the details up if you're having performance issues. The features are not designed to always provide good performance on current high-end hardware with all settings maximized.
Some of the most effective changes I've made for performance were to reduce Draw Distance as well as Object/Tree/Avatar Detail.
Oh, and graphics != gameplay. Sorry, as a gamer, I've always been a stickler for that. ;^)
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