Spring RTS Engine

Could the next version include a feature showing the vista computer index thingy ? This would be really usefull to determine if someone will lag in a bigger battle (same idea as springmark)

This would not need anything else from the developers then reading the performance index reported by vista, and indicating it to the other players. Ofcourse ppl not running vista would not support this, but it is not a big issue since vista will become the most popular OS and therefore most people will have this feature.

So this could be a upgrade for the current mhz thingy. You would display mhz or mhz+vista computer rating if supported

What do you think?

I don't think Vista will be popular enough to warrant this, to be frank.

maybe if there is a vista experience score detected it could be put after the CPU?

Ishach wrote:maybe if there is a vista experience score detected it could be put after the CPU?

Well that was what i suggested...? :D

And neddiedrow: i am pretty sure vista will be the most popular OS in a year from now. Just wait and see. Everyone said XP was the deepest shit ever made when it came out, but look at what OS most people use..

kuqa wrote:

Ishach wrote:maybe if there is a vista experience score detected it could be put after the CPU?

Well that was what i suggested...? :D

I read it as CPU or vista score, oops

Nobody heard fo springmark?

Eitherway this also comes under the whole arguement that these thigns are unreliable and can lead to elitist attitudes.

My graphics card has a score of 1.0 and my ram 5.8, yet my card is an 8800GTS 640MB, huh?

AF wrote:Nobody heard of springmark?

kuqa wrote:(same idea as springmark)

I'd comment on the phail of this idea, and springmark's methods in particular, but the damn thing won't even run

AF wrote:Nobody heard fo springmark?

Eitherway this also comes under the whole arguement that these thigns are unreliable and can lead to elitist attitudes.

My graphics card has a score of 1.0 and my ram 5.8, yet my card is an 8800GTS 640MB, huh?

Well i think it is 10^n times better to have a simple call of a numeric value reported by vista, then trying to implement some own system scan ways.

Weird as i have the exactly same card, and from the first beta drivers onwards i have got 5.8 as my gfx card subscore...

And then you talk about this "elitist groups forming". Just think about it how nice it would be to play a battle on supreme battlefield so that the game speed stays above 0.5 in late game. Hell why not games with game speed 1 all the way through? Users with computers from the middle ages could still play among eachother or among anyone on a smaller map, but for gods sake they only ruing the game by joining bigg battles. Then you have to kick them after 15 minutes of game as the gamespeed has already dropped to 0.6

And just think how easy this thing is to implement, you just call for an value reported by windows, and then display it !

This is a luxury problem.

kuqa wrote:Ofcourse ppl not running vista would not support this, but it is not a big issue since vista will become the most popular OS and therefore most people will have this feature.

Haha LOL APRIL FOOLZ

The CPU speed index feature is NOT representive for spring ingame performance.

only a benchmark running the same calculations as spring does is representive.

i made a benchmark in springmark, then checked the outcome on different computers and compared it with ingame performance. I discovered that the score was 50% too high for AMD cpu's compared with this performance. Now the score is auto-altered at springmark's website, but still the score is not representive in some cases.

In my opinion the best thing you can do is check the cpu name and speed. soon you will find out what cpu types will do the job. butter better is a benchmark feature in spring itself :)