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Offline Wobble73

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AMD Radeon HD 6470M
on: March 18, 2014, 09:27:29 am
So I just bought myself a laptop with the above graphics chip and 4GB ram on board. Would this be sufficient to play BP WiH at a reasonable rate? Opinions please?
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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #1 on: March 18, 2014, 09:31:50 am
The 6470m should be sufficient to play the campaign, provided you use the compatibility pack and a recent nightly build.
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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #2 on: March 19, 2014, 07:55:54 am
Well I tried it out last night and it was wonderful (upgrading from a Intelgrated  :ick: ), set to highest resolution, highest settings and all ran smoothly! I even tried a little Diaspora which lagged like hell on my old laptop (I only played through it on easy at the lowest settings possible for the story) and WOW is that beautiful on full settings!

One chuffed Blue Planet player here, all excited for the voice acting and Act III  ;7  ;)
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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #3 on: March 19, 2014, 12:17:28 pm
Quote from: Wobble73 on March 19, 2014, 07:55:54 am
One chuffed Blue Planet player here, all excited for the voice acting and Act III  ;7  ;)
Er... you mean Act IV? Act III was released back in 2013.
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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #4 on: March 19, 2014, 01:02:35 pm
Really? I thought it was Age of Aquarius and then War in Heaven Acts 1 and 2? Waiting for War in Heaven Act 3?  :p
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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #5 on: March 19, 2014, 01:20:26 pm
Quote from: Wobble73 on March 19, 2014, 01:02:35 pm
Really? I thought it was Age of Aquarius and then War in Heaven Acts 1 and 2? Waiting for War in Heaven Act 3?  :p
We're waiting for War in Heaven acts 4 and 5. Perhaps you are confused by the fact that the in-game campaigns are called "Blue Planet: War in Heaven 1" and "Blue Planet: War in Heaven 2". The former is acts 1-2 and the latter is act 3.
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schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

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<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.
 

Offline Wobble73

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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #6 on: March 19, 2014, 01:24:30 pm
That'll explain it, very confusing naming convention.  :confused:
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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #7 on: March 19, 2014, 01:27:49 pm
Well, otherwise, everyone would have to replay acts 1-2 just to play through the new stuff when act 3 came out. Unless things have changed since I last heard, acts 4-5 will be integrated into the "Blue Planet: War in Heaven 2" campaign with acts 1-2 remaining separate (because there are no variables from acts 1-2 that need to carry over into the rest of the campaign).
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schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.
 

Offline Wobble73

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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #8 on: March 19, 2014, 04:48:42 pm
Suddenly receiving errors? Anyone see what is wrong, I've attached my FS2Open.log here...

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bp-shp.tbm(line 222):
Error: Required token = [#End], [$Subsystem:], [$Name], or [$Template], found [$Glowpoint overrides: ( "red_glow_10:1,2" )].

ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_3_7_1_SSE-DEBUG-20140201_r10376.exe! <no symbol>
kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 18 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 99 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 54 bytes
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
Reply #9 on: March 19, 2014, 05:07:00 pm
You are trying to use a 3.7.1 without the compatibility pack installed. As The_E said, standard BP is incompatible with non-BP builds, so you must install the compatibility pack.
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