Graphical lag in Newcastle

[Knucklehead]

I must say that even Kiggles' numbers are much higher than they need to be. Take my system, for example. I run an Athlon XP 2700+ with a Radeon 9800 Pro. I always run with in-game graphic settings maxed and only have lag in the Newcastle system when looking through the cloud toward Sunderland. Granted, I usually run with AA and AF turned off, but even when I do, the only issue I've had is when certain stations lose some or most of their textures at certain distances. (Still haven't figured that one out totally, but it probably has something to do with the driver version I'm running)

A friend of mine was able to run vanilla just fine on his Geforce 4 MX 440 card. For that matter, I've run vanilla on a 350MHz PII with an 8MB Rage Pro Turbo built into the mainboard. (Graphics turned most of the way down, but very playable.)

While Discovery adds a huge amount of new stuff, that doesn't mean it's all on screen at the same time.

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It's official, I have too few ships now...