Hahaha, sorry, didn't think you'd be offended Smoth, just messing around... truly didn't mean offense. I don't make fun of your girlfriend do I? Sorry. I don't even have one, let alone one that condones my anime and/or geek habits. It's probably jealousy. And this isn't just because the last 5 PMs I've got are all color-coded. I only bug you out of habit, not malice, nothing actually against you. To be fair, I've been a lot nicer to you lately, mainly teased you only indirectly by making childish references to Gundam in places inappropriate.
Resizing as I do not want to derail the thread. While we're on the topic of being offensive, I was under the impression this board does not condone the use of slurs, like calling things you don't like "gay". Since there are clearly moderators reading this thread could someone PM me (so as to not derail the thread further) and more clearly explain what the policy is on this? I would have a larger vocabulary to use if I knew I was allowed to call things gay, fag, etc. Perhaps Smoth said what he did in special circumstances, such as being unusually angry? At the time I wrote that message I'd been awake for 65 hours playing violent video games and watching foreign films. I plead insanity. But this forum has rules and his behavior isn't within them, iirc. To quote the forum rules post, "9. Racism or prejudice of any kind will not be supported here."
lurker wrote:Cabbage wrote:an extra gig of ram
Was it a single stick that broke dual-channel? That would slow you down nicely.
If you want to add a third gig I think you can buy 2x 1gig and 2x 512, pretty sure you can still keep the advantages of dual channel.
Not sure whether you pair one of each or both together... they're supposed to act as individual channels so maybe they need to both be 1.5 gb? Maybe they need to be matched... I've read it can be done, anyways.
Teutooni wrote:Could it be, that 64 bit drivers for the 88 give expected performance with spring where 32 bit fails? I'm no expert, but that's one difference I thought might affect.
People have been having performance problems since before Vista came out or 64-bit drivers for Vista existed IIRC, so I don't think that's the case, but it's an interesting idea.
I think you might be misunderstanding the problem. When we are complaining Spring isn't running "fast enough", what we means is, "It's not running as fast as we were expecting given how fast other, more complex engines, run." For instance, I complain about SoaSE performance problems on their boards and most everyone agrees with me, not because the game isn't playable, but because there is obviously a problem that's holding the game's performance back or else we're not doing something right.
50 -150 FPS is probably what I'd get too if I set my settings the same way you do. The problem is that given what we're actually doing at the time we're getting 50-150 FPS, if it was a different game we'd expect to have 300+ FPS.
The only reason anyone's complaining is we've sunk probably over a thousand dollars on our computers and we get better framerates in Crysis at full settings than we do in Spring at full settings.