.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

Raging Tiger- Save $9.00
winSPMBT: Main Battle Tank- Save $6.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Shrapnel Community > Space Empires: IV & V

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11  
Old September 28th, 2006, 01:38 PM
NTJedi's Avatar

NTJedi NTJedi is offline
General
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: az
Posts: 3,069
Thanks: 41
Thanked 39 Times in 28 Posts
NTJedi is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

Quote:
Ed Kolis said:
Shrapnel is not publishing SE5... Strategy First is. Shrapnel is just kind enough to keep hosting these forums for us, since they published SE4.
Okay thanks for the info !
__________________
There can be only one.
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old September 30th, 2006, 03:04 PM

Ludd Ludd is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Scarborough, Ont. Canada
Posts: 65
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Ludd is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

Is anyone playing the beta or demo with a core 2 duo and high end graphics card? Say, Radeon x1900 or Nvidea 7900 card? If so, how does the game play?

Any people with Vista playing it?
__________________
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." Jack Handey
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old September 30th, 2006, 03:09 PM
AAshbery76's Avatar

AAshbery76 AAshbery76 is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: England
Posts: 155
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
AAshbery76 is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

I have a dual core AMD4000 and an X1800 card and it plays great.
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old September 30th, 2006, 04:54 PM

Phoenix-D Phoenix-D is offline
National Security Advisor
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Posts: 5,085
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Phoenix-D is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

I have a AMD X2 and I had to disable one core for SE5 to work (the other core is still active, but SE5 isn't allowed to see it). Other than that, it works fine. I have Geforce 7600.
__________________
Phoenix-D

I am not senile. I just talk to myself because the rest of you don't provide adequate conversation.
-Digger
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old September 30th, 2006, 06:23 PM

Ludd Ludd is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Scarborough, Ont. Canada
Posts: 65
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Ludd is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

Quote:
Phoenix-D said:
I have a AMD X2 and I had to disable one core for SE5 to work.
Any idea if you have to do the same for an Intel Core 2 Duo?
__________________
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." Jack Handey
Reply With Quote
  #16  
Old September 30th, 2006, 06:59 PM

Phoenix-D Phoenix-D is offline
National Security Advisor
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Posts: 5,085
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Phoenix-D is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

I have an Intel dual core laptop- I'll try sticking the demo on that and see how it goes.

Its the older generation, though. (Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo).
__________________
Phoenix-D

I am not senile. I just talk to myself because the rest of you don't provide adequate conversation.
-Digger
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old September 30th, 2006, 07:49 PM

Ludd Ludd is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Scarborough, Ont. Canada
Posts: 65
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Ludd is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

At the moment I play the demo on a Pentium 4 3.0 ghz machine with a Radeon 9800 Pro. I have some flashing problems at times but otherwise it runs pretty well.

I might be buying a new computer with an E6600 core 2 duo and probably a BFG 7950 GT, so any info would be a great help.

I remember when I went from a Pentium II Win98, to a Pentium IV WinXP, and SEIV ran slower! Don't want that to happen again.
__________________
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." Jack Handey
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old October 3rd, 2006, 09:43 AM
Santiago's Avatar

Santiago Santiago is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 238
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Santiago is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

Just a note- I have been trying out the demo on various pc's 2 laptops and a desktop so far. I noticed on the desktop- The screen resolution is 1024x768. I used the game setup to play at 1280x1024.

The game plays fine. Except when you minimize the game, the monitor goes back to 1024x768. Then maximize the game. 1280x1024. Everything looks ok until you open any game window. Game minimizes and resets the screen to 1024x768. Cannot escape or close the game when the game is up. I minimized it and closed it thru right click on the task bar. And get an access violation every time.

It may be the particular configuration of that pc- Don't have the general info at hand atm.
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old October 11th, 2006, 10:51 PM
Parasite's Avatar

Parasite Parasite is offline
Second Lieutenant
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 464
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Parasite is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

I have a S3 Savage4 chip, DAC of S3 SDAC, 32 MB, 1280x1024 450 meg Pentium III

I get one FPS on the main SEV screen, and sometimes even "0". I thought it was rounding up, but I see it is rounding just normally. Pop up screens run at 5-20 FPS and when in them, the mouse moves somewhat more than the once a second the main screen gives. There is corruption on a few screens sometimes. I put it in safe mode, but there was no noticeable effect. I have also tried different settings, but so far to no avail. I did get through three screens of the tutorial last night, but I was skipping a lot of the stuff. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon45.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon45.gif[/img]

On my work laptop, it runs a lot better. I am getting 50-60 FPS pretty often. After this, I am scared to even load it on my Win95 Cirix 166+
__________________
I thought of the sun as a big bright ball of something that produced an intense absence of darkness. Alan Dean Foster No More Crystal Tears
A++SeGdy$+-++Fr?C++++Cst+SfAi--Mm-MpTS---SsROPw++Fq++Nd++++RpG++Mm++Bb
Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old October 30th, 2006, 01:01 PM

AstralWanderer AstralWanderer is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 131
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
AstralWanderer is on a distinguished road
Default Re: SE:V Video Card Issues

GeForce2Go 32MB on a Dell laptop with 1600x1200 TFT, 1GHz Pentium III.

Running on auto results in corruption with many popup dialogs but safe mode seems perfectly OK. FPS of about 7-9 regardless of detail settings (it goes up to 30-50 when showing the black screen when processing AI player turns though... ).

Cursor sluggishness is the main problem IMHO - the lag makes ship design unnecessarily painful.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:28 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.