Slow...

[Heripy]

I have the game, etc downloaded, it works, but it is unbearable slow...it slows my computer incredibly, what i am looking for is what I need to change that would speed it up(obviously the options can be changed in game, but I don't understand why this happens. I do believe I am up to par...)(Just a reference, its not my connection, it took only 30 mins. to download the whole DMG so its not that...)

I looked around to find the info, but I am not sure what it is I need to do, and Don't want to mess somethign up..

OS

- Mac OS X, 10.5.1

My comps info...

Model Name:   Mac mini
Model Identifier:   Macmini2,1
Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:   2 GHz
Number Of Processors:   1
Total Number Of Cores:   2
L2 Cache:   4 MB
Memory:   1 GB

Graphics card

Intel GMA 950:

  Chipset Model:   GMA 950
  Type:   Display
  Bus:   Built-In
  VRAM (Total):   64 MB of shared system memory
  Vendor:   Intel (0x8086)
  Device ID:   0x27a2
  Revision ID:   0x0003
  Displays:
AL1717:
  Resolution:   1024 x 768 @ 75 Hz
  Depth:   32-bit Color
  Core Image:   Hardware Accelerated
  Main Display:   Yes
  Mirror:   Off
  Online:   Yes
  Quartz Extreme:   Supported
  Rotation:   Supported

[Caarrie]

try turning camera distance down to around 100 or less in options ingame

also your connection speed has nothing to do with this

[Heripy]

okey dokey

[Rennaj]

Hello, another thing you can try same place in options, the FPS bar at bottom, set it on max., Save, and it will settle down on its own to best setting for you, I have found having this to low will slow you down.

[Greenie]

maybe it doesn't make that much of an impact, but what I did to speed up Planeshift was the following:

- play in windowed mode (not fullscreen) and used 800 to 600 pixels). if you still want to have kind of fullscreen-experience you can use the zooming-feauture of OSX (this has to be enabled in the "keyboard & Mouse Systemprefs -> Mouse/Zoom using scroll wheel while holding..." I set the option to only scroll the screen when the pointer reaches the edge of the visible area). What it does, basically, is that when I press the ctrl-key and use my scroll-weel it zooms into the whole screen. I do this until the Planeshift-Window fills the visible area as much as possible.
- turn most of the music off (apart from the sounds when buttons and such things are clicked)
- when in cities I use a camera-distance of around 30 to 40. The sight isn't that beautiful, but at least I can walk around in a fairly good speed. (in wilderness it is no problem to set it to around 150, maybe even more, but this is good enough to find your way)
- as someone else suggested, I set the framerate as high as possible and it really made a difference.

Hope this helps.

BTW: I am playing Planeshift on an iMac G4 (1 GHz with a 64-MB Gfx-Card (nVidia gForce 4 mX) and with 2 GB RAM