Just starting out... Performance issues?

D'Arcy on 11/7/2007 at 13:04

I think that stutter will always occur, no matter how powerful your rig is. Beware that if you accumulate a lot of stuff in one place, usually you'll get a long pause as you approach that place.

242 on 13/7/2007 at 09:43

Quote Posted by Gonchong

Good stuff, thanks for the tips. I'll be sure to check out Dark Valley.

Also, a very good weapon for early stages can be found in the Garbage - modified MP5 that uses 9x18 bullets. I just found it yesterday, it was on a corpse in the very end of the railroad tunnel with lots of anomalies. I believe it's considerably better than AK74 - much lesser recoil and much higher rate of fire with about equal stopping power of a bullet.

Bjossi on 14/7/2007 at 15:11

I often tried to go into that railroad tunnel but it was so swarmed with anomalies that I could barely move around. Or maybe are we talking about different rail tunnels?

242 on 14/7/2007 at 21:12

Quote Posted by Bjossi

I often tried to go into that railroad tunnel but it was so swarmed with anomalies that I could barely move around. Or maybe are we talking about different rail tunnels?

There is only one :) It also seemed almost impossible to me when I played for the first time. But it's actually not hard to reach the very end and return back with 100% health. You can avoid radiation and anomalies if you move carefully.

Bjossi on 16/7/2007 at 10:53

I tried to navigate in there for a while, since all those pretty artifacts were scattered around. Maybe I should return there and give it another shot. :cool:

242 on 16/7/2007 at 21:31

Quote Posted by Bjossi

I tried to navigate in there for a while, since all those pretty artifacts were scattered around. Maybe I should return there and give it another shot. :cool:

AFAIR, there aren't many artifacts in the tunnel, the modified MP5 is the only relatively valuable thing.

But on top of three radiactive hills there are lots.

Bjossi on 16/7/2007 at 21:53

Isn't the modded MP5 like immensely valuable, for gameplay reasons at least? I'm ready to go through hell to reach that thing and get back out. :cool:

GRRRR on 17/7/2007 at 06:45

So there is something in there after all <.<

Never managed to proceed far and all the bolt-throwing in the world didnt reveal a safe path, so i just dismissed it as a deathtrap (and comic relief because you'd always find one or two bandits/dogs/boars in there) replacement for the fences and mega radiation hits preventing you from walking outta the map. Gotta pick up Stalker again when the new Float is out :o

242 on 17/7/2007 at 07:59

Quote Posted by Bjossi

Isn't the modded MP5 like immensely valuable, for gameplay reasons at least? I'm ready to go through hell to reach that thing and get back out. :cool:

I found it very good against quick monsters like dogs. With AK47 it's harder to kill them because of high recoil and low rate of fire. I don't think it's more powerful than ordinary MP5/Viper, it just uses wide-spread 9x18 bullets, it's a big advantage considering the speed with which it consumes them.

PS: I wrote MP5 because I believe that Viper in the game is actually codename of MP5, or is it actually Uzi?

D'Arcy on 17/7/2007 at 08:27

Yes, the Viper is in reality the HK-MP5.

I don't think I ever use it. I stick to the AKS-74U until I can get an Abakan or Strelok's fast shooting AK-74.