A Game Version For Really Slow Comps

posted on July 10th, 2004, 10:18 pm

I was just looking at the Beta 3 development page and thought "Gee, my old comp is having a lot of trouble with Beta 2, how could it possibly manage Beta 3?"

Right now, I have the graphic settings on 800x600x16, 1/4 Graphics just to see the background nebulas etc, -really well done I must say- and low res textures for ships

And its not enough, and it will realy ot be insuffecient when I get Beta 3, and I was wondering if thers any way to reduce it even more. Well, aside from putting graphics to 0/4

posted on July 10th, 2004, 10:25 pm

mh yep we have a few ideas about that (reducing the starfield resolution for example). hopefully we will be able to add that to v3, cause the new effects do need some extra system resources of course

Optec

posted on July 10th, 2004, 10:29 pm

Yeah the explosion effects in Beta 3 are just.........wow....

posted on July 13th, 2004, 8:39 pm

and how do u know???

posted on July 13th, 2004, 9:13 pm

Know what If I may ask?

posted on July 14th, 2004, 2:21 pm

hey what are your system specs?

posted on July 15th, 2004, 2:34 am

Lets see.......
OS: Windows XP
CPU: 0.751Ghz (!!!!!)
RAM: 192 (64+128)
Video card: NVIDIA RIVA TNT Model 64, 32 Mbs of VRAM
Available Hard drive space: 6 GB (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Well hopefuly, I will get a new computer at the end of August, but I do think this is another subturfuge for my dad to make me work my ass off on the summer vacations...Psh....

posted on July 15th, 2004, 2:58 am

if it wood be posabul to make the minam reqiermints.
a p3 500
128 ram
a older grafic card


that will probly get a good part of the game players.

posted on July 15th, 2004, 3:27 am

Well most game players do use faster computers then that and sadly anyone who uses computers as slow or slower then that will end up geting left behind. Maybe one day we can all have fast computers.

posted on July 15th, 2004, 3:33 am

i dont know of most the ones i see use p2 and celirons.

much slower. so i was thinking that 500 wood be a good pont to get a good part of tham with out duming dan the game to the leaval of pac man.

only the ones that can aford it have nice ones. the ones how dont cant play be cuss thay are pore. i dont like that idea but i do relise that thare is a limate od dumying it dawn.

posted on July 18th, 2004, 6:47 pm

With the shuttle trafic around stations, did u ever think of making a button in the launcher that would turn that off. It would mean bigger install and installer size mostlikely but, might improve performance on older machines.

posted on July 18th, 2004, 7:20 pm

that sawnds good. what about a butin that will take ther brackrawnd than make it a tilling .gif star feeld insted of complicated graphics that take up ram.

posted on July 19th, 2004, 6:40 am

In the launcher the low graphics/texture setting should do a bit more like changing the starfield to a lower version and other tweaks that would improve performace over quality but not affect online play.

posted on July 19th, 2004, 7:14 am

Make graphix look as if your playing regular A2 for the slower people

posted on July 19th, 2004, 7:36 am

Or the relay slower people a1.