Graphical lag in Newcastle

[Maranzo]

uhh... you are overdoing it a bit Mcneo -_-'

I can play Disco mod perfectly on the old 1000 Mhz downstairs (don't ask me what processor)

altough the graphics settings are not at full power

So like Onca says just put the graphical settings down a bit:)



Jack

[kiggles]

Minimum:

Intel Pentium D 805 or AMD Althlon X2 3800+
Radeon X series card or Nvidia 6600GT or higher

Recommended:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 or AMD Athlon X 5200+
Radeon X1 series card or Nvidia 7600 GT

Hum so the minimum should be a 3800+?

Well I am running with no real lag probs or anything at all with a 3500+ so you might want to change that a little.

Personaly I would put the first one as recommended just change the "Nvidia 6600GT or higher" to "Nvidia 7600GT higher"

And even then that is putting the recommended high if you ask me.

After all I know discovery mod can run on worse comps than mine with no trouble what so ever.

Kiggles:mellow:

P.S. McNeo you sound like you are trying to advertise computers to get us to go spend money:P

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[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...

[Korrd]

Whatever you smoke, McNeo, i want some..

I've played this mod with a TNT2 32MB PCI, but at 800x600x16, and it ran fine with details low. In fact, I completed the whole SP with that card, and played my first 6 months on disco with that card too before i got my old 6600GT.

Nightfall played disco with a Geforce2 and a PIII600 most of the time and still he managed to beat the crap out of most pilots here, and Dab plays it with a mobile radeon 9200 (on a laptop) and he haven't had any problems yet.

I think that min system for disco should be along the lines of a PIII 1000 or Athlon 900, with 128MB of RAM and a 32MB video card, as FL never uses more than 32mb of vram. And that is if you activate the mod with all the eyecandy. If you activate it with vanilla settings, you should be able to run it with the minimum system vanilla requires.

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[McNeo]

I dont smoke anything, but I hear they have good synth on trafalgar >.> <.<

Honestly though, the stuff I take allows me to see freelancer at 16x AA and AF with solid 75 FPS (Vsync on) and all the stuff that you can turn on in the Nvidia control panel...

But those were meant to allow no lag at all anywhere with all the settings maxed out in the game (not the video card). As it stands, I put up the AA to 2x on my old FX 5700 machine and it grinds to 2 SPF (seconds per frame...lol) as soon as I undock. It usually stays around 30 with all the settings maxed (but not on the Nvidia control panel) until I start fighting, where it goes from 30 to 2 second freeze.

Meh, that old rustbucket is 5 years old anyway....

[Vaporlinx]

Freelancer isnt worthy of a system like that.

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[Korrd]

The problem is that you have a geForce 5. Those cards were the worst cards ever made, performed terrible under DX9, were expensive, and had driver tweaks in order to keep up with the competence. Even a low end radeon 9500/9550 runs FL better than a FX 5700 Ultra.

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[McNeo]

As I said, I knew nothing of hardware back then....:crazy:. Worst buy ever! And it wasn't even me who bought it, it was my parents:mellow:

@Vaporlinx: I know, but despite there being lots of games out there, none keep my attention as much as Freelancer... sad and good at the same time (sad that no one can get a game addictive enough, and good that I get to play here).

But ok, fine:

Minimum system requirements:

Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4800

Sound ok to you?

[Korrd]

don't use brands to define limits. Better use generic terms.

Minimum system requirements:

1Ghz Intel or AMD processor.
A video card capable of hardware texture and lighting. (geforce 256, radeon 7000 and up).



Also, don't confuse minimum with recommended. Minimum means a system that is fast enough to make it playable at all min settings, not a rig that can run it at 2560x1920@32 w 16xAA and 32xAF.

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[fwolf]

Hey I was just talking about one cloud. :)

About the graphic cards, you dont need transform and lightning to play Freelancer. When I was playing Freelancer back in 2005, I was using a VIA onboard video card in another computer. The game worked fine with sets at a minimum, or close to a minimum.

With my ATI 9250 all sets are at the maximum. But the problem its only with that cloud. I think its because theres a mine field and a nomad city in the background.