Game Guides Archive

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Erebor wrote:

I dont know whether I should be sad or happy, players know more about the game than the developers... :/

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MajorXP wrote:

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xUnkarNokataki wrote:

Good Guide, but still I don't know why I can't move the Brightness/Contrast/Gamma slider... I have a GF FX 5200 64Mb with 512 DDR, any idea? :/

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because you are running in windowed mode

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Oh yes, Indeed, Thank you MajorXP !

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Erebor wrote:

Thanks for all the replies, My Hd is a matrox with 7200rpm, but getting a second one for operation system seems like a good idea, I will give it a shot...

I dont know whether I should be sad or happy, players know more about the game than the developers... :/

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It's not so much that we know "more" than the devs, it's just that we have real-life experience USING their products, so we tend to be better able to explain it in laymans terms.

I run into this all the time when trying to write a good interface for websites with my PHP/MySQL work. It's very hard to understand exactly how someone wants to use something, because rarely can they explain it in terms I can relate to. I don't enter business contacts, I work with code. It's great when you can spend time watching a user and seeing how they go about daily business, but even by the mere act of being there, they change how they do things around me, and I never truely get a picture of how they WANT it to work, and they can NEVER describe it when I ask them.

It's the same thing here. The devs could go on and on about the technical aspects of how the disk swapping works, or how each setting changes the game, but they can't really explain it in terms that'll relate to you, your game style, and your habits. They know too much, as it were, to seperate the user aspect from the code aspect.

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Karquile wrote:

In my experience, one of the biggest factors involved in lag is disk delay due to virtual memory writes and/or SWG datafile traversal.

At any given time, SwgClient_r will attempt to keep as much of the world in memory as it can, based on the limits you set in the Launchpad and in-game Options, up to a maximum of 75% of your system memory as determined at launch time. But as you move across a planet or through a crowded city, new data is constantly being downloaded, mapped to model definitions in the many .TRE files, and rendered on-screen. These files are often very fragmented after many updates, and disk access of any kind is often surprising slow on today's mid-range PC's. The client spends precious milliseconds seeking around six different giant TRE files, and the disk driver pre-empts stuff like screen rendering and server/client synchronization. The result is that you lurch and laaaaag.

What can you do?

* Reduce all those game options. This will save about 200M of memory.

* Defragment your game disk. A contiguous TRE file is a faster TRE file.

* Don't run heavy duty apps like Internet Explorer alongside SWG. Let it be the big dog.

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Does a regular defrag in Windows solve this problem? Should I have partitioned my hard drive for this game? If so how do I do that now that I have it installed? It seems that my ground game lag has become exceptional now that I installed JTL. JTL does not lag at all.

Thanks!

turn off the vertex pixels and shaders. Runs pretty smooth. Dump the particle bar to its lowest settings.

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WolfwoodCross wrote:

Forgive me if I come across as brash, for that is not my intent. I do however have to say that I did not find the guide terribly helpful. It simply does not have the information I need to make an educated decision about my graphic options.

For example - the World Detail Bias section simply states "World Detail Bias(slider): Static Object Details(buildings, POIs, etc)." It tells me which button moves the slider, and how to move it to the left and the right. However, it does not tell me why I need to do this.

Another good example is the simple graphics options of brightness, contrast, and gamma. The guide tells me that the sliders increase/decrease these values, and how to do so, but it does not tell me what these values control. The lamen's description of howand why everything works is what is needed for this to be a complete guide.

Assume your reader has no knowledge of computer graphics whatsoever, as I would believe that is the audience your guide is targetting in the first place.

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Sorry GarVa, but I have to agree with WolfwoodCross on this. I know and understand what nearly all of the options do, except one. All your guide contains is copies of the in game tool tips. I also want to know what effect the World Detail Bias slider has, as it is the only one I can't work out by its name or tooltip, but a guide needs to be a lamens guide, not a description of what a slider does and how to check/uncheck a checkbox, those are basic operations of GUI based operating system...