FYI: End results of GFX tweaking

[Deleted member 23278]

Hi!

After much mucking about with my PC.... increase clock speed, enabled higher bandwidth on gfx card.. downloaded AMD fusion(which may or maynot help)..
I didn't take screeniees of previous issues but i had extreme white effects.. black avatar..big lag... i can now run with only minor lag.

Rig is over 5 years old...
2.2Ghz
Amd 64, 3700+
Nvidia 7600gt DDR2, 2gig RAM



I am currently happy
Maybe this can give some others hope it can be sorted!

 

[Draggger]

glad you could do it i am finally at 6 fps not sure its gonna get much better for me




so will be a bit still untill i can afford new parts but i do like what i can see of the world

if just some way to turn off some things if i could get to 15-20 fps i would love life

but then again i went from 1 fps to 6 so it is progress

 

[Deleted member 23278]

ahh i forget to check the rate..too late to that right now.. here's a mob pic for texture set on high btw



edit: tested now at 16 FPS

 

[Nebu]

After some testing myself, the Shading, Shadows and Volumetric Effects options eat the most performance. The biggest difference is between Shading on Medium and High, whereas High looks a lot better in my opinion, on Medium it looks more cartoonish. Volumetric effects is mostly sky and weather effects.

 

[sunnybear1]

how do i check for frames per second? is there a way to check ingame, i have a 9500gt, 3 gig of ram, and athlon x2 4400, am i'm running like crap, everything on low exept shaing, that HAS to be on high or i can't see anything but the ground.

 

[Legion]

how do i check for frames per second? is there a way to check ingame, i have a 9500gt, 3 gig of ram, and athlon x2 4400, am i'm running like crap, everything on low exept shaing, that HAS to be on high or i can't see anything but the ground.

fraps.com is one way, or you tweak the settings file, dont remember the command at the moment though.

 

[Eron²]

starting using these settings and they work alright on my system as well.


AMD 2500+
1 GB ddr ram
7600gs (agp)

 

[Timbo Witters]

What about your vieuw at night. Almost got the same settings but when It's night it is almost to dark for me to play :/
You have the same problem I guess ?

 

[Xen]

What about your vieuw at night. Almost got the same settings but when It's night it is almost to dark for me to play :/
You have the same problem I guess ?

Turn gamma up. It makes some other things look a little washed out, but at least you can see where you are going.

 

[antball06]

how do i check for frames per second? is there a way to check ingame, i have a 9500gt, 3 gig of ram, and athlon x2 4400, am i'm running like crap, everything on low exept shaing, that HAS to be on high or i can't see anything but the ground.

I have the exact same problem!! Let me know if u come up with a fix plz!!

 

[3-J]

hmm maybe there is hope for me yet

2.7ghz P4
1gb ram (max)
radeon x800 GTO 256mb

however, just ordered a sapphire radeon HD3850 512MB graphics card (shader model 4.0 support)

hopefully that will help, right now the game is playable but barely and all avatars+creatures are 1 solid color, fps isn't too good either but i manage to kill mobs mine and explore just fine



thanks you just gave me more hope!

 

[Westy]

hmm maybe there is hope for me yet

2.7ghz P4
1gb ram (max)
radeon x800 GTO 256mb

however, just ordered a sapphire radeon HD3850 512MB graphics card (shader model 4.0 support)

hopefully that will help, right now the game is playable but barely and all avatars+creatures are 1 solid color, fps isn't too good either but i manage to kill mobs mine and explore just fine



thanks you just gave me more hope!

Without any technical validation, i'm of the belief that memory and cpu also play a big part in the performance. The card you ordered above should let you play medium i'd suggest. Maybe with a few set higher. The resolution you use is also a factor. I have a HD4670 which is close to yours. 1680x1050 res and medium I can get 30 fps or so. A few settings are pushed up higher. But I plan to upgrade my vid card as I want to experience the full graphics. I only bought the 4670 cos it was cheap and my 7600 died. I didn't buy a high end card at the time because I wanted to see the outcome of VU10. I would avoid 512mb memory cards and go for 1G at least. Main thing is be patient as a few ppl in this forum will collectively produce a good indication of what works.

 

[3-J]

yah too bad i can't upgrade my ram

the 3850 is the best agp compatible card on the market right now, they don't make a 1gb model.... i could have gotten the 4650 AGP 1GB however it runs with 128bit vs the 3850s 256bit and that's not good at all.

also an important thing to remember when buying a new graphics card is to look at power requirements.... the card i just bought 'recommends' 450w minimum. While my machine has a 200w power source :/




just one more thing i have to get now... wish i could afford a whole new system

 

[Deleted member 23278]

What about your vieuw at night. Almost got the same settings but when It's night it is almost to dark for me to play :/
You have the same problem I guess ?

At night it's fine generally for me aslong as i have no daylight shining on my screen.