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Thread: Streamlined the terrain system to improve client performance
Vortex500
Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:44 pm
#66
And one more thing I have discovered is that my graphic options is restored to default everytime I start the game.
It didnt use to do that before.
It didnt use to do that before.
ComCypher
Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:08 pm
#67
Vortex500 wrote:
Phew.. I tought it was me who had gone nuts. Ive have noticed some kind of a change in the terrain textures too. Just couldnt put my finger on what.
Bought a new computer two months ago and running with the highest settings. Now it feels just like before with my old computer. If not worse.
Dont know if it is both colors and the "size" on texture thing. I think something is wrong with the flora too. Just doesnt feel like the old good Galaxies anymore.
I wonder if it is a intentional change or a "bug"?
Message Edited by Vortex500 on 02-21-2005 03:48 AM
Given the total communication blackout with the devs I'm almost certain it's intentional. They don't want to take the time to admit something like this isa problem and then work to solve it.
Com Cypher
Qwad
Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:53 pm
#68
ComCypher wrote:
Vortex500 wrote:
Phew.. I tought it was me who had gone nuts. Ive have noticed some kind of a change in the terrain textures too. Just couldnt put my finger on what.
Bought a new computer two months ago and running with the highest settings. Now it feels just like before with my old computer. If not worse.
Dont know if it is both colors and the "size" on texture thing. I think something is wrong with the flora too. Just doesnt feel like the old good Galaxies anymore.
I wonder if it is a intentional change or a "bug"?Message Edited by Vortex500 on 02-21-2005 03:48 AM
Given the total communication blackout with the devs I'm almost certain it's intentional. They don't want to take the time to admit something like this is a problem and then work to solve it.
Com Cypher
Typical
ComCypher
Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:09 pm
#69
I expect once the pictures of the day start showing this horrible anomaly the devs will have a harder time ignoring it 
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.Com Cypher
AEK
Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:08 am
#70
I could deal with my combat professions getting nerfed to obscurity, I could deal with the warping and lag bugs, and I could deal with the insane FS xp requirements, but this just ruins the game for me.
I can't help notice this every waking second I play (after I realized it wasn't a jedi mind trick
). Some people have invested a lot of REAL money for the best computers to have the highest graphical immersion into the Star Wars(TM) universe, and now it has been taken away without any warning, choice, or feedback.
This has to be a high priority item to be fixed/reset and not something that sits on the backburner while promises of more loot, GCW, and CURB float around. Please can we get a official response to this?
I can't help notice this every waking second I play (after I realized it wasn't a jedi mind trick
). Some people have invested a lot of REAL money for the best computers to have the highest graphical immersion into the Star Wars(TM) universe, and now it has been taken away without any warning, choice, or feedback.This has to be a high priority item to be fixed/reset and not something that sits on the backburner while promises of more loot, GCW, and CURB float around. Please can we get a official response to this?
Darth_Bravo
Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:52 am
#71
Laptop
Pentium M 2.0
1 giga ram
Ati 128 ram
No lag at all !!!
Plz give me my graphics back ! 
(before buying this computer, i contacted the customer support for their advice, i have a desktop already and have mentioned it... "SWG doesn't run on laptops we recomend you to buy a desktop...") hahahahah
ShannonKnight
Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:53 am
#72
You checked the screenshots?
It's really easy to see at a star port and wherever you have a large smooth terrain.
It's really easy to see at a star port and wherever you have a large smooth terrain.
Foundre
Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:02 am
#73
I don't want to jump on Com's conspiracy theory bandwagon here but I have to agree as well as offer my own findings.
First these reductions will not improve gameplay on our end. It will make server maint. easier on their end. It reduces the excess power required to buffer these graphics and it was a dramtic drop from the original beta standards. This was not because our systems could not handle it because today a hom PC can run 100% competitive with almost all of the DEV computers used for internal testing back then.
Also graphics were not the only things that seemed reduced. I had extracted some sound effects from the game for my pc theme. I noticed after doing it again recently that they were all reduced in size. After noticing this I increased some ambient volume and noticed the background loops had become annoying. Speeders have gotten so obnoxious to listen to I have to turn off the speakers on long trips.
For whatever reasons it is being done cutting corners is never the answer.
calomac
Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:09 pm
#75
This sickens me. Right when they start getting in my good books, they do this. What about us who have higher-end performance computers (I dont even get lag in c-net. Or around the blue-frogs on test center,for that matter.)? Theres not even an option to un-do this. I totally agree with doing this for the people who have computers who can JUST run this game, but to NOT put in an un-do option...its just...well it makes me mad thats for damn sure.
AEK
Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:42 pm
#76
And the flora even seems fubar'd. I can't put a finger on it, but it seems that there is no shading, or rotations, or something.
ComCypher
Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:47 am
#77
Darth_Bravo wrote:
Laptop
Pentium M 2.0
1 giga ram
Ati 128 ram
No lag at all !!!
Plz give me my graphics back !
(before buying this computer, i contacted the customer support for their advice, i have a desktop already and have mentioned it... "SWG doesn't run on laptops we recomend you to buy a desktop...") hahahahah
Heh heh, I personally believe the TSRs are robots with built-in copy and paste capabilities. I've avoided the tech support forum likethe plague ever since I had a certain unpleasant experience there, but suffice it to say I don't think there is any issue on the planet that could be resolved in that particular forum 
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.Com Cypher
ComCypher
Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:50 am
#78
Even the sound? If that is true then the situation is worse than I thought. I'm surprised the devs would need to cut back on server load though, especiallygiven the recent storage increases I assumed they finally upgraded their servers. Then again maybe that's why they needed to cut back on the graphics
Foundre wrote:
I don't want to jump on Com's conspiracy theory bandwagon here but I have to agree as well as offer my own findings.
First these reductions will not improve gameplay on our end. It will make server maint. easier on their end. It reduces the excess power required to buffer these graphics and it was a dramtic drop from the original beta standards. This was not because our systems could not handle it because today a hom PC can run 100% competitive with almost all of the DEV computers used for internal testing back then.
Also graphics were not the only things that seemed reduced. I had extracted some sound effects from the game for my pc theme. I noticed after doing it again recently that they were all reduced in size. After noticing this I increased some ambient volume and noticed the background loops had become annoying. Speeders have gotten so obnoxious to listen to I have to turn off the speakers on long trips.
For whatever reasons it is being done cutting corners is never the answer.
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