PlaneShift

Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Destaii on July 05, 2003, 07:55:34 am

Title: Perhaps my computer is too slow to play?
Post by: Destaii on July 05, 2003, 07:55:34 am: Every time I try to connect my computer freezes. This game looks VERY entertaining, and I really want to know why I\'m having trouble.

My computer\'s setting-things (bear with me, I can\'t do this tech stuff):
Processor: Celeron
Video RAM: Urm...8 MB. x_X; (Used to be 40...my G Force broke because of my idiotic brothers)
RAM: 128
Internet Service: Cox Cable

Sorry, that\'s all I know. I\'m trying to run the game in safe mode.

Please help me...I don\'t want to have to go back to playing Priston Tale!
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Post by: Xalthar on July 07, 2003, 03:30:32 am: try letting it be at the loading screen, and let it be there for 7-14 minutes or so.. if it hasn\'t loaded by then, there would be something wrong...
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Post by: Caldazar on July 07, 2003, 04:47:58 pm: It could be your graphic-card..
Oh, and it might take up to two hours to load the game the first time. Dont alt+tab or anything like that.
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Post by: Xalthar on July 07, 2003, 04:52:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Caldazar
Oh, and it might take up to two hours to load the game the first time.

guess i was lucky the first time I loaded it then, although 2 hours seem a bit too long for any game, even in pre-alpha to load.. I would say it was the computer that was out of date then...
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Post by: Caldazar on July 07, 2003, 05:17:13 pm: Nah, it has something to do with PlaneShift configuring files and all that stuff.. it goes alot faster later on.
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Post by: Xalthar on July 07, 2003, 05:21:05 pm: k... all up to luck I suppose, then.
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Post by: xlorepdarkhelm on July 07, 2003, 06:33:44 pm: Less with luck, and more with your system\'s specs, what OS you are using, and how well it plays with other programs.

Edit: corrected lick to luck, which makes more sense.
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Post by: Rogue on July 08, 2003, 09:54:32 am: well i have a celeron 600mhz, if you was a teche you might know the celeron cant multiprocess(do many thigs at once) very well... that and my vidio card is also crap... yah that about sums it up.. oh and i too have cox cable inet lol the irony, but i can sorta play, i get 5-10fps at best in rain and 10-15 in sun which looks almost as good as the halflife demos(ecept halflife demo uses less prossesing power go figure) so yah..... if its less than a 500mhz celeron ur on count yourself out, and since u can, upgrade that graphics card... im suck on a laptop and cant...
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Post by: xlorepdarkhelm on July 09, 2003, 06:39:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rogue
well i have a celeron 600mhz, if you was a teche you might know the celeron cant multiprocess(do many thigs at once) very well... that and my vidio card is also crap... yah that about sums it up.. oh and i too have cox cable inet lol the irony, but i can sorta play, i get 5-10fps at best in rain and 10-15 in sun which looks almost as good as the halflife demos(ecept halflife demo uses less prossesing power go figure) so yah..... if its less than a 500mhz celeron ur on count yourself out, and since u can, upgrade that graphics card... im suck on a laptop and cant...

Last I checked, unless you have 2 or more CPU\'s in your computer, multiprocessing shouldn\'t even come up in the discussion - since to multiprocess, you need multiple processessors. I have my own personal belief about what people should do with their cable connections (shoot the cable companies...) but I\'ll leave that one alone. If you read even 1/4 of the messages in this forum, you\'d see that your troubles aren\'t unique, and that many of us have a similar issue, and that the only solution (unless you can program and are able to help the dev team) is to wait patiently, as the game is very much, pre-alpha. If you don\'t know what that means - in laymans terms, there\'s a good chance there are fewer things going right than bugs in the coding right now, as the programming is far, far, far from complete.
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Post by: Iamthom on July 09, 2003, 06:49:04 pm: do you really need two processors? cuz i thought that they just came out with the intel 3.2 ghz muliti threading or something like that, i know for a fact they did.......

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Post by: Ghostslayer on July 10, 2003, 08:01:01 am: The new intel processors with hyper threading act like two processors.... basically they can do 2 processes at once instead of switching between tasks really fast.

So yea... all processors can \"multitask\" just depends on how they do it.
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Post by: xlorepdarkhelm on July 10, 2003, 05:54:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ghostslayer
The new intel processors with hyper threading act like two processors.... basically they can do 2 processes at once instead of switching between tasks really fast.

So yea... all processors can \"multitask\" just depends on how they do it.

Ahh, I don\'t keep up with Intel much, maybe they did - still, that\'s gotta be pretty pricey. And, for the record, there\'s a rather significant difference between multiprocessing and multitasking :) But I don\'t really want to get into a fight over little things like that :)