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Originally Posted by Corsair
That's very surprising, what are your computer specs ? Both NYGM and GWX run fine on mine which is far from being a race horse... It's surprising that NYGM 2.2 gives " a huge loss in framerates " as there are not so many graphic improvements in there.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with an AMD Turion Mk-36 processor, supposedly 1GB of RAM (My Computer tells me it's only about 700 megs), and an ATI RADEON Xpress1150 (no onboard memory- can use up 256 megs of system memory).
Vanilla is pretty smooth during normal patrols (though I think I'm more tolerant of low end FPS than most people), and gets a littly choppy in harbors, but is still playable. I have the few graphics controls available more or less maxed. The only problem I have is that usually once a patrol, the game suddenly decides to get very choppy for no apparent reason, necessitating exiting to Windows, which fixes it.
I have version 1.4 out of the box. For some reason the 1.4b patch won't recognize my installation, so I tried using NYGM with 1.4 and not 1.4b. I don't know if that would make a difference.
I just started playing SH3 about a month and a half ago and am currently on my 4th patrol (all manual, but will do cheat reloads to bag targets), so I am still happy with the vanilla version. I just infiltrated Lock Ewe the other day, and the raid and subsequent escape to a silver twilight sky and open sea was amazing. After years of AOD, I am continuosly amazed by this game, and can't help but love it.
However, it'd be a shame if I couldn't make use of all the improvements from the various supermods that I've read about here.