io organic industrialism on 24/3/2006 at 12:47
Quote Posted by Renzatic
I have no idea how you're getting crappy framerates on your comp. A 7800GS and an XP 3000+ should give you more than a smooth framerate in high settings. Either you're really picky and don't consider 30 FPS or slightly below a playable framerate, or something is severely screwed.
It's an Asrock ULi m1695, an AGP/PCI-e combo board. Normally I'd avoid these like the plague since they're usually complete crap. But apparently this one actually has full featured AGP support, along with supporting PCI-e 16x SLI without any problems whatsoever. What's even more surprising is it's performance is easily comparable to an Nforce4, actually ranking higher than most brandname boards that use that particular chipset. AND it's only $60, so it's practically a steal at that price.
i have heard good things about that mobo. i am planning on getting something similar in about a year.
well, i realized that 3rd person mode was dragging me down by an additional 5 -15 fps .... it's a lot more playable now, although there is definitely noticable slowdown ... i.e. during some of the sequences in the prison-break before the emperor dies, when the 2 guards are fighting 2 assassins, framerate would drop below 10 fps. i don't consider that playable :( i really hope it doesn't happen in "real world" combat. guess i will find out tonight when i get home from work and do a couple dungeon romps.
edit: just tested for a few minutes. now averaging 25-40 outside, 30-50 inside. no slowdowns when fighting 2 skeletons in some kind of indoor church ruins, constant 30 fps.. i guess maybe since there's no mouse smoothing, it looks choppier than it actually is
scumble on 26/3/2006 at 01:14
I'm getting anywhere between 10 and 40 FPS depending on the situation. Dropping the resolution from 1280 by 1024 to 1024 by 768 helped a lot. I turned off self-shadowing because it actaully made things look worse overall.
So, the game is playable, while looking pretty good, but it really needs something more powerful to do it justice, unfortunately.
PeeperStorm on 26/3/2006 at 19:12
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ (dual core)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT (slightly overclocked)
RAM: 4 Gb
I've got all the bells and whistles turned on or turned up at 1024x768, and I still get framerates of 30 FPS or more in interior spaces. Outside it looks like about 20 FPS. I can live with that. The framerate didn't change at all when I dropped the resolution to 640x480 oddly enough.
And yes, the game does use both cores on the processor. Yay!
Matthew on 28/3/2006 at 12:16
CPU: AMD Athlon 3000+ (on MSI K7N2 motherboard)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 (Creative Blaster 5)
RAM: 1 Gb (512Mb Crucial, 512 Mb PNY, and according to the manual supposedly 128-bit dual-channel)
Running at 800 X 600, mostly smoothly.
BlackCapedManX on 29/3/2006 at 13:48
Processor: AMD 1.8ghz
Ram: 512
GfxCard: ATI 9600 Sapphire w/ 256 ram
Settings: as low as it goes with draw distance set on half.
Is it still the best looking game I've ever played?
Oh hells yeah.
CCCToad on 29/3/2006 at 14:50
AMD 64 3500+
1 gig ram
x800 pro
shitty......almost unplayable when fighting more than one enemy, or when outdoors. It only gets worse when I turn detail down: load times go down, screen lag goes up.
Spitter on 29/3/2006 at 16:07
A64 3200+, Geforce 6600 GT, 1 gig of RAM. Just started the game, played through the tutorial dungeon and ran around the outdoors a bit to see what kind of FPS I'd get - I didn't have Fraps on but it seemed to be pretty smooth! The setup suggested me medium settings and I turned the resolution to 1024x768 and switched HDR on.
I have (relatively) old drivers on my video card, btw.
Fig455 on 29/3/2006 at 23:51
Quote Posted by CCCToad
AMD 64 3500+
1 gig ram
x800 pro
shitty......almost unplayable when fighting more than one enemy, or when outdoors. It only gets worse when I turn detail down: load times go down, screen lag goes up.
Dunno what to tell you. I posted specs earlier ( I have this on 2 PCs) and even on a 2 YEAR OLD SEMPRON 2500+, 128 MB 9800 PRO, and a gig of pc2700 DDR RAM @ 333 MHz I am getting really solid performance. Most every setting is at least halfway up,Bloom on, 1024x768, Medium textures, and all eye candy enabled. I get 25 + fps consistenty. Maybe 20 or so in a hectic fight.
fett on 30/3/2006 at 03:28
So what's the general opinion of me trying to run this with my sad little Raedon 9600? It's supported on the low end, did fairly well on the diagnostic. But I'm afraid. :sweat:
