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Some guidelines on improving performance.

Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 05:27
by GrOuNd_ZeRo
Terrain LOD on 32 helps alot, switching off High Res and Dynamic clouds also help alot.

Ofcourse the most obvious ones such as shadows and reflective water can also affect gameplay quite a bit.

with all these turned off I get 90fps which is pretty damn good, 30fps with shadows enabled...

Also, if shadows appear weird, try switch off fullscreen :)

hope this helps some users struggling with performance.

Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 05:51
by FizWizz
Actually, I could use some help spoiling myself. I can't get shadows because the game says
Spring wrote:You are missing an OpenGL extension needed
to use shadowmaps (fragment_program_shado
w)
You are missing an OpenGL extension needed
to use shadowmaps
is that a problem I can fix easily or not?

Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 06:02
by Kuroneko
sounds like an old driver

Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 06:04
by Gnomre
I'd say that would be because your graphics card doesn't support the functions used for shadows...

Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 06:19
by FizWizz
my graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce FX 5200, and it was pretty good as of not too long ago (I think). Think it's just an old driver? I haven't updated done any driver updates in ages, and I forgot how I go about doing it too.

Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 06:53
by FireCrack
http://www.nvidia.com, i'm preety sure they use a comman download for all card drivers.

Posted: 27 Aug 2005, 09:56
by mufdvr222
I have a 9200-128mb and I get the same message with the latest drivers.

Posted: 27 Aug 2005, 10:29
by Michilus_nimbus
I had that problem before I updated the driver on my Geforce FX Go5300 with a modified Nvidia driver, but still shadows only work if I enable high res clouds.

Posted: 27 Aug 2005, 21:00
by SinbadEV
shadows rely on high res clouds? I will deffinitely need to try that when I get home!