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Offline chris_2xtreme

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on: December 05, 2003, 06:03:28 pm
Are there anything in the registry that can make the game run much faster or do i need something like a HT&L build (this is with normal FS2 EXE)

System Specs
Pentium III 850Mhz
640MB of Ram
Geforce 2MX 400
30GB hardrive
Win ME
DX 9b
Nvidia Drivers 45.23

my problem rather resembles this



ths picture is form a different thread but this is the example of what happens in-game
 

Offline Taristin

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Reply #1 on: December 05, 2003, 06:12:00 pm
Have you tried HT&L, cuz Vanilla FS2 will always poop out bad framerates like that...  

And since your PC isn't much better than mine, I highly suggest the HT&L builds of FSO, and play the main camp that way...

Edit: Or I think I may have misunderstood you.

You want to speed up how long it takes to get to where you're going?


Try Shift + >  to increase, and Shift + < to decrease the time lapse settings. Max is 4x speed.
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #2 on: December 05, 2003, 06:15:28 pm
Can someone move this to the SCP forum please

On-topic:
My screen looks similar to that with HT&L in 3.5.5.

500mhz k6-2
256mb pc100
GF4mx 420 64mb

with nothing, and I mean nothing, on the screen I get about 22 fps.
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Offline karajorma

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Reply #3 on: December 05, 2003, 06:19:18 pm
I agree that your framerate is pretty low. Are you playing a standard FS2 mission or one with lots of SCP features.

If you're getting such a low fps with standard FS2 then I doubt HTL will help much. Something else is wrong.

If you've got lots of SCP features like glowmaps, shinemaps etc all running at once and you're getting a low frame rate then HTL probably will help.
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #4 on: December 05, 2003, 06:23:04 pm
Ooh... that's his problem... Yeah, it's his videocard. My GeForce 2 MX 400 never get's more than about 24-25...

There was one time, however, that I managed a 48fps run, but it never happened again.

It was also in 32-bit mode, oddly enough.
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Offline chris_2xtreme

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Reply #5 on: December 05, 2003, 06:24:19 pm
ok which is the lastest build which is fast with HTL Because that seems like the best option

also how come Vanilla FS2 like you say runs bad when it does not have graphical enhancements like HTL supposedly run smoother
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Reply #6 on: December 05, 2003, 06:26:06 pm
Check the SCP forum for a thread called latest builds.
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Offline DeepSpace9er

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Reply #7 on: December 05, 2003, 08:02:07 pm
500mhz? Looks like you were in a desperate need of an upgrade 2 years ago.
 

Offline Taristin

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Reply #8 on: December 05, 2003, 08:59:24 pm
Eh? I'm running a Duron at 600 Mhz.  You want me to upgrade, send me an Athlon64 ;7
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #9 on: December 06, 2003, 12:28:00 am
I gonna try and do a little upgrading after book buyback in a week.  I spent over $250 on my books so I should have at least $100 to burn.
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Reply #10 on: December 06, 2003, 11:10:42 am
Only 250? Lucky bugger... Mine cost me about 360...
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Reply #11 on: December 08, 2003, 08:29:03 am
To the SCP forum with you.

Btw, chris_2xtreme, is that Newcastle in Australia, or elsewhere? Welcome. Errr, kinda. :)
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #12 on: December 08, 2003, 08:50:25 am
Don't tell me Aus has one too...
 

Offline Lightspeed

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Reply #13 on: December 08, 2003, 10:13:18 am
Wow. I was able to play Vanilla FS2 with 40+ FPS on my old Voodoo III 3000 without problems, untill.... well... untill the card died :p

After it did, Glide mode only showed a black picture, D3D crawled around at 2-10 FPS as soon as some fighters were on my screen at 640x480, well it was pain :)

The bad thing about my Voodoo III was that the max colour depth is 16-bit, and that it was so uncompatible that I never managed to get SCP to work on it. But it was damn fast for its time :D

The problem is definately not your processor. I had an AMD K6-2 533. If you had a Duron or a Celeron, that would be understandable. But a P III shouldn't be that bad :)

Proves my point. Geforce = teh suck.
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Reply #14 on: December 08, 2003, 10:30:49 am
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Don't tell me Aus has one too...


Small town about 2 hour's drive North of Sydney with a few buildings and a UNSW campus. Why?
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Reply #15 on: December 08, 2003, 12:08:27 pm
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Don't tell me Aus has one too...


Yep, and half my in-laws live there. :D Its like the highest concentration of Italians anywhere outside of Italy (or it seems that way anyway). And the beach is gorgeous. :)
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Offline ChronoReverse

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Reply #16 on: December 08, 2003, 01:32:17 pm
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Proves my point. Geforce = teh suck.



Oh come on, that's like saying that Radeon's suck since the Radeon 7000 is worse than a TNT2, and we all know that Radeons are great. :lol:
 

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Reply #17 on: December 08, 2003, 01:44:25 pm
Then lets revise: GeForce2 MX =teh suck.

I have the same card, and although my computer is faster (I get half-decent framerates most of the time) I get weird crap-outs all the time and some of the stuff in HT&L refuses to work right.  Get a better card, and you'll get better performance.
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Offline Lightspeed

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Reply #18 on: December 08, 2003, 02:07:07 pm
Radeons only started to get good with the 9000 series. Anything before that is, TBH, even worse than Geforce :)

A better card does not always mean better performance. A really important thing is your bus speed (and memory speed) as well as your OS.

If you put it to a table its like:

Win95 - 100% performance, crashes all the time (100% since it's reference), also it's not compatible with today's needs
Win98 SE - 70 % performance, pretty stable
Win ME - 20% performance, crashes like crap, acts up, and has Microsofts little trick inside :) *1
Win XP is better again when it comes to performance, still not as great as Win98 SE ;)

*1: Since Windows ME, Microsoft uses the following trick to fool customers: You will get to see your desktop quite soon in bootup but it's only a fake to prevent the user from seeing the system is not even half way booted yet. So it just gives you the waiting curser and you cannot open any tasks while Windows finishes booting slowly. :)
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Reply #19 on: December 08, 2003, 03:40:27 pm
Where does Win2000 rank on there?
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