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Offline Fineus

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on: July 19, 2003, 07:38:00 pm
Hail all,

Just found out an incredibly handy little performance tip for anyone who's hacked their registry to enhance FS2s graphics.

If you've got a DWORD "D3DPreloadTextures" in your registry settings and it's at "1", and you also have a lot of FPS drops in Inferno, set it to "0". This is because Inferno uses incredibly huge texture maps that kill off RAM on some systems (like my 512MB of DDR RAM). This resulted in crappy performance. Disabling the precache removed this problem entirely.
 

Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #1 on: July 20, 2003, 05:36:41 am
Thanks, that helped my comparatively paltry 320MB of SDRAM. :D
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Offline Woomeister

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Reply #2 on: July 20, 2003, 07:46:38 am
I had 128mb SDRam and only got performance issues in the Sol gate missions, now I have 1024 DDR and it runs fine.

It maybe more of a graphics card issue than a ram one.
 

Offline phreak

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Reply #3 on: July 20, 2003, 10:37:36 am
the way rendering is handled in fs2, speed is more dependant on CPU speed than on GPU speed.
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #4 on: July 20, 2003, 01:25:05 pm
Stupid Duron 600!
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #5 on: July 20, 2003, 07:01:51 pm
My K6-2 500 plays it at 1024x768 with next to no slowdown, even in the missions at Sol Gate, may want to check your settings.
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #6 on: July 20, 2003, 08:05:08 pm
1024x768 32 bit. It's just that I like to run kazaa in the background, along with music match jukebox... and sometimes trillian.

According to kazan, my PC shouldn't even be able to play FS... lol
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Offline phreak

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Reply #7 on: July 20, 2003, 10:21:56 pm
i usually get ~50 fps using the scp stuff (no glowmaps or cloaking).  the explosions really slow it down for some reason where it drops to ~10 :wtf:
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Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #8 on: July 21, 2003, 05:12:36 am
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Originally posted by Liberator
My K6-2 500 plays it at 1024x768 with next to no slowdown, even in the missions at Sol Gate, may want to check your settings.


:blah: What are your settings? I have a P3 of the same clock speed but I get constant slow-downs...
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #9 on: July 21, 2003, 05:12:28 pm
I'm set at Very High.

I also have 256mb of SDRAM and a Geforce 4 MX 420 PCI.
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Offline Woolie Wool

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Reply #10 on: July 21, 2003, 05:23:31 pm
No slowdowns for me and my Athlon XP (with glowmaps on and detail set to the highest possible level for everything), except for one never-to-be-released test mission I made in FRED with 80+ ships in the mission at once (when you start the mission, the directives read "destroy fighters (76)").
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Offline IceFire

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Reply #11 on: July 21, 2003, 09:57:28 pm
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Originally posted by Woolie Wool
No slowdowns for me and my Athlon XP (with glowmaps on and detail set to the highest possible level for everything), except for one never-to-be-released test mission I made in FRED with 80+ ships in the mission at once (when you start the mission, the directives read "destroy fighters (76)").

If thats one of the more recent ones...its probably the faster...erm, I don't know...floating point operations or whatever compaired to Intel that really helps in those odd situations in FS2.  No slow downs on my 2700+.  SUPAR fast :)
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Offline Woolie Wool

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Reply #12 on: July 21, 2003, 10:24:16 pm
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Originally posted by IceFire

If thats one of the more recent ones...its probably the faster...erm, I don't know...floating point operations or whatever compaired to Intel that really helps in those odd situations in FS2.  No slow downs on my 2700+.  SUPAR fast :)


I only have a 1600+! *pulls out screwdriver and sneaks towards IceFire's computer*:D
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16:47   Quanto   D:

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Offline Bri_Dog

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Reply #13 on: July 21, 2003, 10:25:57 pm
WHere exactely is that key or value...whatever it's called?
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Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #14 on: July 22, 2003, 09:49:55 pm
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Originally posted by IceFire
...my 2700+.  SUPAR fast :)


I hate you :)
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Offline Corhellion

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Reply #15 on: July 23, 2003, 07:14:09 am
P4 1.5 Ghz

512 mb RAM

I don't have any problems running Inferno! :D
 

Offline Bri_Dog

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Reply #16 on: July 23, 2003, 04:50:41 pm
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Originally posted by Bri_Dog
WHere exactely is that key or value...whatever it's called?
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Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #17 on: August 14, 2003, 01:10:09 am
*bump*

Here's that thread with the performance thing I mentioned, mate.
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Offline Woomeister

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Reply #18 on: August 14, 2003, 04:11:04 am
Well INF runs with a bit of slowdown on my old PC:

P3 650MHz
128MB SD RAM
16mb ATI Rage Fury

doesn't crash though, a 32mb card should help with the slowdown.


My current Athlon XP 3000+ system has no slowdown at all :D
 

Offline Kosh

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Reply #19 on: September 22, 2003, 07:59:53 pm
1.7 GHz Celeron
256 DDR RAM
Radeon 9100 video card


No slowdowns here.
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