Demo is out - Page 9

Jasper · #81 October 29th, 2003, 02:25 AM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
]There is that quick start PDF in the doc directory of the demo but its awfully bare-bones. Plus Im not a big fan of having such a small file be a PDF.

I missed that, although I didn't really go looking for it. It would be a good idea to provide a link to it from the installer, and include a text Version.

PvK · #82 October 29th, 2003, 03:00 AM

Hmm. Speed is acceptable but not really very good on my 1.4 GHz Athlon with GeForce 4 card... so... how is a person supposed to find better OpenGL drivers?

PvK

Saber Cherry · #83 October 29th, 2003, 05:14 AM

www.nvidia.com

Saber Cherry · #84 October 29th, 2003, 06:59 AM

Oh, make sure your windows is updated... you never know. Also, install Direct X 9.latest, because even though the game uses OpenGL, sometimes the latest drivers require the latest DX to install or function properly.

PvK · #85 October 29th, 2003, 11:58 PM

No improvement from latest nVidia drivers. 9.5 FPS at 1024x768, Normal detail, no filtering. Usable, but not very good. I must need some sort of OpenGL driver.

PvK

Saber Cherry · #86 October 30th, 2003, 12:07 AM

Try disabling sound, or updating your sound card drivers. I have a GeForce 4 4200, Athlon XP 1700+, and 512 MB DDR ram. I'm running XP Pro with all the latest updates, and... hmmm, several-month-old video drivers.

Basically, it sounds very similar to your system, but it flies on my computer. But then, what kind of GeForce 4 do you have? There are some discount models that have reduced functionality, and narrow datapaths...

At any rate, I suggest running scandisk, updating Windows (through Windows Update), defragging, updating your sound drivers, changing the sound mode (in the game) to waveout, possibly turning off the sound, and possibly disabling some features in your video card driver control panel. In that order. Good luck!

PvK · #87 October 30th, 2003, 01:41 AM

No luck. Turning sound off even doesn't help. It's actually not really bad in practice - just the benchmark still shows 9.5 FPS, so I guess just the combat replays will be choppier than they should be. This system performs excellently with all my other 3D games. My video card is a pretty good GeForce 4, I think: Ti 4200 w. 64 MB VRAM, on AGP bus. I think all the games I usually run use DirectX rather than OpenGL, though.

PvK

Phoenix-D · #88 October 30th, 2003, 01:42 AM

PvK, what else is on your system? I have pretty much the same setup, only with a 128MB card (its actually slower than your 64MB one though), and get around 50 FPS in the benchmark.

Psitticine · #89 October 30th, 2003, 02:02 AM

This is weird. I have just an old GeForce 2 in my older machine, and I can get 15 fps even with the settings on the high side of neutral. I'm just using the vanilla drivers and everything too.

Could it be a sound issue? Do you get any oddities out of the audio, and have you tried benchmarking with sound turned off? (pondering)

Saber Cherry · #90 October 30th, 2003, 02:03 AM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
PvK, what else is on your system? I have pretty much the same setup, only with a 128MB card (its actually slower than your 64MB one though), and get around 50 FPS in the benchmark.

What's the benchmark command?