Speed up your game!

WOLFGIR · 03-28-2001, 04:42 AM

Well a little thing i noticed tweaking about late some nights ago. To get the most out of your game in speed and not having any lags is to take and check out the box for "Steps" Thoose little sounds when you´re characters move around, they make you´r soundcard work at it´s absolute top and thus when lot of things happens this is a performance eater big time. Try yourslef and if you find something else please post it up!

Good game everyone.

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Only the moon should hear my wail..

white heron · 03-28-2001, 05:02 AM

Yeah,i agree .
Turning down/off several sound options is often the best way to gain performance.Those sounds use up a helluva lot of resources.

WOLFGIR · 03-28-2001, 05:54 AM

Yep, i still have a creative Live 5.1 soundcard with latest driveers and EAX at light effect support.. Damn, is this the new hardware race?? A 500 Mhz soundcad with 128 mb ram on???

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Only the moon should hear my wail..

03-28-2001, 06:35 AM

Also, for some--turn OFF the OpenGL and 32 bit textures and it'll be A LOT faster. (I did this with IWD:HOW because it was slow, but with BG2 it's fine..) weird.

Ziroc
Ironworks Webmaster

WOLFGIR · 03-28-2001, 07:05 AM

Yep, noticed the same, my GeForce 2 gts card didn´t like HOW..

Well lokks almost the same without in anyway..

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Only the moon should hear my wail..

Lifetime · 03-28-2001, 07:22 AM

Damned Hardwear Freaks

I'm stuck with my 333mhz Pentium 2 playing HOW with 200mb free for cache
Try turning of Background Audio. I turned it off and my HOW runs like the wind (without that damned wind from the Burial Isle)
More obvious solutions would be to run in lower resolutions, disable translucent shadows, and if you don't mind a drop in realism, disable static animation

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Why?

03-28-2001, 07:53 AM

I still have a 200 Mhz with 96Mb RAM. Thanks for the tips on the Sound Cards. Having beaten BG2 3 times, I've just installed HOW. I'll give this a try

WOLFGIR · 03-28-2001, 10:18 AM

LOL
Lifetime! hehe, well comes with the job to know what you are working with to make things work for customers.. And well since I´m deeply into graphics, I don´t want to turn down to much of it, just wanted to know which thing was the greatest performance sucker..

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Only the moon should hear my wail..

slackerboy · 03-28-2001, 10:50 AM

well if you try to run bg2 in whistler at anything over 640x480 with a voodooo3 3000 every thing turns green

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MILAMBER · 03-28-2001, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by slackerboy:
well if you try to run bg2 in whistler at anything over 640x480 with a voodooo3 3000 every thing turns green

What? I have a voodoo 3 3000 and I have had no problems whatsoever. I am running at 1024x768. Runs like a dream. What other hardware do you have? Is your AGP set to 4x instead of 2? I wonder why you are having problems. I love that card. I tried the gladiac geforce2 and it wasn't nearly as good.

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[This message has been edited by MILAMBER (edited 03-28-2001).]

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03-28-2001, 04:42 AM	#1
WOLFGIR Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Sweden Age: 50 Posts: 3,450	Well a little thing i noticed tweaking about late some nights ago. To get the most out of your game in speed and not having any lags is to take and check out the box for "Steps" Thoose little sounds when you´re characters move around, they make you´r soundcard work at it´s absolute top and thus when lot of things happens this is a performance eater big time. Try yourslef and if you find something else please post it up! Good game everyone. ------------------ Only the moon should hear my wail..

03-28-2001, 05:02 AM	#2
white heron Manshoon Join Date: March 5, 2001 Location: Devon,UK Posts: 234	Yeah,i agree . Turning down/off several sound options is often the best way to gain performance.Those sounds use up a helluva lot of resources.

03-28-2001, 05:54 AM	#3
WOLFGIR Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Sweden Age: 50 Posts: 3,450	Yep, i still have a creative Live 5.1 soundcard with latest driveers and EAX at light effect support.. Damn, is this the new hardware race?? A 500 Mhz soundcad with 128 mb ram on??? ------------------ Only the moon should hear my wail..

03-28-2001, 06:35 AM	#4
Ziroc Guest Posts: n/a	Also, for some--turn OFF the OpenGL and 32 bit textures and it'll be A LOT faster. (I did this with IWD:HOW because it was slow, but with BG2 it's fine..) weird. Ziroc Ironworks Webmaster

03-28-2001, 07:05 AM	#5
WOLFGIR Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Sweden Age: 50 Posts: 3,450	Yep, noticed the same, my GeForce 2 gts card didn´t like HOW.. Well lokks almost the same without in anyway.. ------------------ Only the moon should hear my wail..

03-28-2001, 07:22 AM	#6
Lifetime Red Dragon Join Date: March 3, 2001 Location: Scotch College, Melbourne Posts: 1,503	Damned Hardwear Freaks I'm stuck with my 333mhz Pentium 2 playing HOW with 200mb free for cache Try turning of Background Audio. I turned it off and my HOW runs like the wind (without that damned wind from the Burial Isle) More obvious solutions would be to run in lower resolutions, disable translucent shadows, and if you don't mind a drop in realism, disable static animation ------------------ Why?

03-28-2001, 07:53 AM	#7
Lord Shield Guest Posts: n/a	I still have a 200 Mhz with 96Mb RAM. Thanks for the tips on the Sound Cards. Having beaten BG2 3 times, I've just installed HOW. I'll give this a try

03-28-2001, 10:18 AM	#8
WOLFGIR Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Sweden Age: 50 Posts: 3,450	LOL Lifetime! hehe, well comes with the job to know what you are working with to make things work for customers.. And well since I´m deeply into graphics, I don´t want to turn down to much of it, just wanted to know which thing was the greatest performance sucker.. ------------------ Only the moon should hear my wail..

03-28-2001, 10:50 AM	#9
slackerboy Gold Dragon Join Date: March 5, 2001 Location: smyrna, tn, usa Age: 46 Posts: 2,506	well if you try to run bg2 in whistler at anything over 640x480 with a voodooo3 3000 every thing turns green ------------------

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