Pilot Archive
Thread: Flying in widescreen?
alyris wrote:
Ok, off topic, but I'm looking at these resolutions, and thinking wow, either you all suffer from poor frame rates, or have really fast systems. I have an Athlon 64 3000 and a 6800gt and galaxies is "ok" at 1280 x 1024. Again off topic, but, I'm curious.
Kirsha - Kettemoor
Yeah I play at 1600x1200 with about 30 fps with what are probably similiar system specs. The trick is to know what graphic settings to run.
Message Edited by Dragon942 on 06-20-2005 03:15 PM
alyris wrote:
Ok, off topic, but I'm looking at these resolutions, and thinking wow, either you all suffer from poor frame rates, or have really fast systems. I have an Athlon 64 3000 and a 6800gt and galaxies is "ok" at 1280 x 1024. Again off topic, but, I'm curious.
Kirsha - Kettemoor
I run SWG at 1280 x 1024 and I get 30fps in space, 30fps on the ground when I walk and 20fps when I'm driving a vehicle.
Check your other settings. I keep my Terrain Detail reasonably high, but Detail range and Viewing range minimal. Also, I turn off the Character LOD Manager. Even though every toon gets fully rendered, it actually works faster because it doesn't have to sit there and think about which toons are hi res and which ones aren't.
alyris wrote:Ok, off topic, but I'm looking at these resolutions, and thinking wow, either you all suffer from poor frame rates, or have really fast systems. I have an Athlon 64 3000 and a 6800gt and galaxies is "ok" at 1280 x 1024. Again off topic, but, I'm curious.
Kirsha - Kettemoor
I have a Athlon 64 3200, 1.5GB RAM, and a Geforce 6800GT using AGP8x and I dont have much lag because I have tuned my settings to be useful but fast, like full distance draw and full shadows but no radial floral draw as its useless except for looks. If you dont have 1GB ram, I would suggest upgrading to that, any higher and it doesnt help unless you run multiple instances or have other programs running in background, like music or VOIP programs. I always have SWG, Ventrilo, and Winamp all going and, like I said, I recieve little to no lag, minus the random times where there are 40+ ppl by theed starport. If I run multiple instances, I have to turn off the shadows and half the draw distance but I am still able to have good speeds, 20+ fps. You may also be getting lag from your internet connection but again, I dont know what you use, I have 512kb.
I like playing in windowed mode cause I can see the ventrilo window, so i can see who is talking, see the title of the song playing on winamp, and get back to game w/o having to alt+tab out or change tasks, a total of about .5 sec spent
