[Taristin]

The latest, 3.5.5   And with Kazan's Internet build (now obsoleted)...  


What I mean by 'can't look at capships' is the framerate drops so low that I find myself oversteering during the lag period, and cannot target anything, move smoothly, etc, when a capship is in my FOV...

[Sticks]

My guess is that you have a fairly low speed processor, yeah?

[Taristin]

AMD Duron 600 Mhz.

[Sticks]

Have you tried an HT&L build? I wondering if that would help out at all.

[Bobboau]

he might if someone would post a copy

[Sticks]

Didn't you have one up Bob?

[Bobboau]

no I have a corupt lib and any relese build I make of any SCP version locks up when it closes, probly other things, I did just upload a recent build I made in the modding forum

[redmenace]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
AMD Duron 600 Mhz.

you can swing by pricewatch.com and get a 1.3 mhz duron for 34 bucks(assuming domestic) even for an international. I know you might not have the money but it is rather cheap and easy.

[Ulala]

Okay, so I know jack squat about programming, save for being able to make Visual Basic 6.0 throw a "HELLO THERE" message box in your face, but couldn't you just try the dx8-dx9 conversion, and if for whatever reason there's some sort of breakage somewhere, don't you have plenty of previous versions to fall back on? If all you're changing is dx8 to dx9 and it doesn't work out, can't you just fall back on 3.5.5 which is still dx8 anyway?

[Goober5000]

Yes, but that misses the point.  First of all, reverting to an earlier version is a complicated and annoying process.  Second of all, you can't "just try" the DX8-DX9 conversion.  It would involve a sizeable amount of research and coding, something that we're not willing to invest that much work in for so little return.

[Ulala]

Oh. Makes sense.

[Raven2001]

so little return?!?!?! Imagine the possibilities it would open!! I f he says he can do it, why not giving it a shot???

Draco, my vote is go for it!!

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Setekh
Well, virtually this entire conversation (save some stuff about shaders) is sailing over my head, but welcome to HLP, Dracos.

Yeah, me too.... and I'm suppossed to have a degree in computing!

[Drew]

if draco wants to do it, why not? it be an overall improvement

[terren]

I think I missread the subject for this thread, sorry.

[mentoc voice]I DEMAND THIS![/mentoc voice]

Was that more what you were looking for?

[Dracos]

[mentoc voice]I DEMAND THIS![/mentoc voice]

ROFL!!!

Seriously though, considering everything the SCP went through with the DirectX 8 merge, I doubt anything like this would be high on the "to-do" list.  It was, after all, just a thought. Doesn't really matter though, if you guys keep doing what you do FS2 will live on for years to come.

However, I'm fully ready and willing to help anywhere else I may be needed, and if the time comes to re-design the renderer or even just update the API just let me know.

[terren]

it's nice that some one finaly apricates my somewhat twisted sence of humor.