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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: xierox on December 16, 2003, 06:11:55 pm

Title: Can't run it well.
Post by: xierox on December 16, 2003, 06:11:55 pm

First off: I have a P4 1.4 ghz. computer with 256 megs of RAM and a 16 meg ATI Rage 4x video card. (I know I know. :-()  I tried running it in Open GL mode, but it really stunk. Only got like one frame a second if I was lucky.  (Video card, probably.) So then I ran it in Safe Mode, which I believe will run it in Software mode, but I got nearly the same performance.  Is this my computer or could something be messed up and causing this?

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Post by: Crj on December 16, 2003, 06:31:58 pm

Lag happans! No.one can figt it. Try to do something with the settings in
Planeshift/data/config/opengl.cfg
It could help a bit. Helped me.

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Post by: xierox on December 16, 2003, 06:41:38 pm

Ok, thank you, I hadn\'t thought about it maybe being lag.  I will check out that file you mentioned and see if I can figure out anything.

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Post by: Xordan on December 16, 2003, 06:44:07 pm

hmm, now that i think of it, Halo had super lagg with my Radeon before I got the patch, but I manged to  fiddle around enough so that it worked....  :P
*Runs off to alter settings*
Try putting u\'r graphics cards openGL settings to as low as possible m8, it might help. There should be an option in u\'r display options sumwhere. All ATI cards have it. :D

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Post by: xierox on December 16, 2003, 06:49:51 pm

That\'s what odd for me, Xordan, I can\'t find the graphics settings for my ATI card.  (I got to Desktop, right click, Properties. Settings -> Advanced and I don\'t see any settings for Open GL.  I do see where I can update the drivers and I think I will try that.)  Am I even looking in the right place?

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Post by: hopedenial on December 17, 2003, 12:12:06 pm

I\'ve been browsing the tech forum and pieced together that this game seems to have it in for Radeons. Running it with software rendering helped me some and i just downloaded the new katalyst drivers so maybe that will help. Always make sure your card has the latest drivers. And if all else fails, fiddle around with the cfg opengl file.

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Post by: Xordan on December 17, 2003, 12:40:33 pm

yuh, u in the right place. U prob need the latest software. Getta patch from http://www.ati.com and download the media center with it. U should have tons of options then.

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Post by: xierox on December 17, 2003, 09:09:09 pm

Ok, thank you very much, all!  I\'ll give those a shot!