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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: steuben on December 23, 2004, 02:19:35 am
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since the testers are working with what is now a production model of cb, i\'ve got a question.
among the things that had been mentioned about cb is that the crystal space engine is being tightened up, and various other optimizations.
i looked aback about a month or so and i couldn\'t see anything about this. or at least it is non-obvious.
so how much faster is cb over mb?
i\'m not looking for a preciese figure. more of an approximate kind of thing.
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Connection-wise, I don\'t think CB uses much more bandwidth than MB does. Graphics-wise, the lag has been reduced quite a bit. Hydlaa Plaza is still pretty choppy if you\'re looking towards the rest of the city, but that\'s understandable. As far as I know, those \"lag-holes\" that existed in MB are no longer a problem in CB. Thank god for that eh! :)
Oh, and CB uses alot less RAM now, too.
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Good stuff, keeping things smaller in the ram allows you to load more content!
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\"Oh, and CB uses alot less RAM now, too.\"
thank god for that! I run it on my 512mb ram computer and i still get \"windows has run out of vitrual memory\" :O
how powerful do they think our computer are? Quite ironic though, the min specs getting lower as the game progresses. However, i know how hard it is to get good optimised code when your running 3D environments, so well done for making it better.
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That\'s good news for me and probaly for lots of other people. MB was slow on my computer because I only have a medium RAM. looks like I will enjoy the new CB version.
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u can make your VM better.. (Virtual Memory)
here are a few easy steps..
(if u can read and make sence of it, then ur lucky)
step1:Find the \"my Computer\" icon (usually on desktop or in start menu on OP: Xp) and click \"Propertys\"
Step2:Click the \"advanced\" tab and under \"performence\" Click Settings then click on the \"advanced\" tab
step3:Change the setting to custom and add in the highest number under \"max\"
Click set
then apply everything and your done!
just restart your system and it will run a bit faster.
This may only work for Windows XP and ME i have no other Systems to try it on atm.
good luck
Snow
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\"u can make your VM better.. (Virtual Memory)
here are a few easy steps..
(if u can read and make sence of it, then ur lucky) \"
well thats interesting, because i always did that. However a friend told me that strangely enough, windows dosnt pay any attention to what setting you have virtual memory on and just manages the virtual memory itself. Apparently the slider bar is just like a placebo extra something to make it look like you can do it yourself. Obviously its a bit hard to know unless you work for microsoft, i just thought that was really strange. Anyway the game runs fine, i just get an annoying message and icon in my tray, alerting me to the fact im supposedly out of memory.
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Originally posted by Littlemrsnow
u can make your VM better.. (Virtual Memory)
here are a few easy steps..
(if u can read and make sence of it, then ur lucky)
step1:Find the \"my Computer\" icon (usually on desktop or in start menu on OP: Xp) and click \"Propertys\"
Step2:Click the \"advanced\" tab and under \"performence\" Click Settings then click on the \"advanced\" tab
step3:Change the setting to custom and add in the highest number under \"max\"
Click set
then apply everything and your done!
just restart your system and it will run a bit faster.
This may only work for Windows XP and ME i have no other Systems to try it on atm.
good luck
Snow
Thats cool Any other handy speeed up my computer tips?? :D
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same connection doesn\'t use much more than MB...
goodie goodie!
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\"Thats cool Any other handy speeed up my computer tips??\"
goto run and type msconfig then goto services and untick random stuff... ^^
or goto starup in the msconfig and untick stuff you dont need.
Also try downloading Fresh UI- http://www.freshdevices.com/
Its very handy for tweaking your computer to get the best settings.
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Im going to be happy when my character doesnt have to fight the deadly, and feroucious LAG MONSTER! :))
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Originally posted by Myrtl
Im going to be happy when my character doesnt have to fight the deadly, and feroucious LAG MONSTER! :))
True Dat :D
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About Fresh UI It wont let me use my e-mail or it doesn\'t support my Isp to get the code for it or whatever. Could you possibly send it to me or sumthin ?(
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oh uhh nvm :))
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Here is another tip: Delete pointless or unwanted media, applications, old files, spy ware, add ware, exedra as all this takes up space in you computer\'s memory.
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ya that will ALWAYS increase your computers preformance. Even do a reformat once and a while.
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reformat? why?
my windows XP is installed since 7 septembre 2001 !
still running smoothly
i\'m running it on a
p4 1.8
512 MB ram
40 GiB HD.
and i\'m using it daily.
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Yeah. Reformats shouldn\'t be necessary unless you really messed something up.
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when you work under Windows reformat is always a good solution :)) :D :))
Seriously, saying reformat will increase performance is very very silly !
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Originally posted by fken
Seriously, saying reformat will increase performance is very very silly !
Windows users should format their harddrive -at least- once per 6 months, and that\'s a fact.
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Linux users almost never need to reformat :rolleyes:
Windowz sux...
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Originally posted by Gronomist
Originally posted by fken
Seriously, saying reformat will increase performance is very very silly !
Windows users should format their harddrive -at least- once per 6 months, and that\'s a fact.
Fiction! Fiction!
I am living proof (and my PC not so living) that this is not necesery at all. :]
Perhaps we should send this Urban(linux-user) Legend to MythBusters :D
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While this was true with windows 98, as long as you don\'t do anything stupid with windows XP, you don\'t need to reformat that often. I do it anyway though because I get so much clutter built up that it\'s easier just to burn a cd with all my important stuff on it and start over. :P
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It might also help that i don\'t install /uninstall programs all the time.
And when i\'m not using a program any more it gets uninstalled. (And me cleaning up after it sometimes :P)
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One thing Crystal Blue will have is a dynamic range camera. So in options you can set a target FPS and the camera will reduce( or increase ) the drawing distance to try to keep that FPS.
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Originally posted by acraig
One thing Crystal Blue will have is a dynamic range camera. So in options you can set a target FPS and the camera will reduce( or increase ) the drawing distance to try to keep that FPS.
Whew, that\'s a relief... I was demoted from an Athlon X: 1700+ with 1 gig of ram and a GeForce 4 5800 to............
Should I say it? :S
An intel celeron...six...hundred...with...half a gig of ram...and...a rage fury maxx dual processor vi--Okay, actually, the video card is WAY better than on the other compy, but the processor is so much ram so lacking that I really don\'t think I can squeeze the same performance out of it.
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Originally posted by Typhorean
and...a rage fury maxx dual processor vi--Okay, actually, the video card is WAY better than on the other compy
Ah, another unlucky owner of a piece of hardware that doesn\'t bother to be working correctly. Seriously, I recently replaced my RFM with an even older Voodoo Banshee board, thereby decreasing the video memory to 1/4 (16 MB instead of 64 MB), and guess what: now I can finally watch videos, and there isn\'t any noticable performance impact in games except increased loading activity, probably for swapping textures. The RFM will be banished to a server; there it will rot in text mode.
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Originally posted by Seytra
Ah, another unlucky owner of a piece of hardware that doesn\'t bother to be working correctly. Seriously, I recently replaced my RFM with an even older Voodoo Banshee board, thereby decreasing the video memory to 1/4 (16 MB instead of 64 MB), and guess what: now I can finally watch videos, and there isn\'t any noticable performance impact in games except increased loading activity, probably for swapping textures. The RFM will be banished to a server; there it will rot in text mode.
Yeah, I DID have some problems getting both processors to work properly under windows XP, but it really was worth the effort, I tried taking the 5800+ out of my dad\'s comp, since he doesn\'t use it that often, and putting it in this one, but the end results were about 70% slower...So...yeah.
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Formatting windows helps because it cleans all the useless garbage that bogs down your PC out of your registry. However, if you\'re really computer savvy and use things like Ad-Aware, RegSeeker, and clean the registry and HDD yourself you\'ll do OK without reformatting.