hi this post stems from a discussion the other day in IRC and a little bit of testing myself ...
i have alredy podted this here
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,58230.680.htmlbut i would like to continue the discussion here as i feel eventualy if the cas e is roven and with the developement of zathras in a rolling mode i would like to here your thoughts....
basically it stems down to something as simple as
i believe that the larger the vp the more chance that there is some performance drop in low to mid ranged systems....it seems to be ok with vps up to 650mb , but vps over the 1gb seem to give a loss of up to 10fps + in game with lots going on , ie asteroid fields huge battles (maybe) etc
as the core file in TBP is 1.3gb i was wonderig what size zathras will get too atm i see it staying small but as developement moves on and maybe we go down the root of mvps etc i was just looking to exchange ideas and thoughts about it ..;
anyway be glad to here your thoughts