Two Burning Questions ??

[cdrsubron7]

I have two questions about SH3, that I'd like to get answered.

1. What is the best resolution to play SH3 at?. I have a 21" widescreen LCD monitor which has a native resolution of 1680x1050. When I play SH3 at this resolution, I have a problem with the game becoming very erratic when running the time compression at 1024x. The mouse pointer becomes very erratic and everthing else is very jerky.

2. The second one concerns time compression. What kind of editor should I use to edit the main.cfg file to change the time compression factor higher than 1024.


Thanks for your imput.


cdrsubron7 :hmm:

[zzsteven]

Originally Posted by cdrsubron7

2. The second one concerns time compression. What kind of editor should I use to edit the main.cfg file to change the time compression factor higher than 1024.

Notepad.

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[JScones]

Originally Posted by cdrsubron7

1. What is the best resolution to play SH3 at?. I have a 21" widescreen LCD monitor which has a native resolution of 1680x1050. When I play SH3 at this resolution, I have a problem with the game becoming very erratic when running the time compression at 1024x. The mouse pointer becomes very erratic and everthing else is very jerky.

With LCD screens, native resolution is always best. It sounds to me like your hardware is not powerful enough to support such a resolution. Running games on LCD screens at anything other than native resolution can look quite crappy, depending on game and monitor.

Originally Posted by cdrsubron7

2. The second one concerns time compression. What kind of editor should I use to edit the main.cfg file to change the time compression factor higher than 1024.

Notepad or SH3Cmdr.

[cdrsubron7]

Originally Posted by JScones

With LCD screens, native resolution is always best. It sounds to me like your hardware is not powerful enough to support such a resolution. Running games on LCD screens at anything other than native resolution can look quite crappy, depending on game and monitor..

I'm not a 100% sure, but I wouldn't think it would be my hardware. I'm using a Sapphire x1900xtx 512 mb video card. I also have an AMD X2 4800+ processsor with 2 MB of memory. Maybe it's just the game that is erratic.


cdrsubron7

[con20or]

How do you find out what your monitors native resolution is? I can change the resolution to 1600 x 1200 on mine, but i usually just play at 1024 x 768.

Its a 21" CRT Vision Master 501, old as hell, but I got it for 10euro.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by cdrsubron7

I'm not a 100% sure, but I wouldn't think it would be my hardware. I'm using a Sapphire x1900xtx 512 mb video card. I also have an AMD X2 4800+ processsor with 2 MB of memory. Maybe it's just the game that is erratic.

Hehe. I'd tend to agree. I assume you're not running with onboard sound?

[cdrsubron7]

Originally Posted by JScones

Hehe. I'd tend to agree. I assume you're not running with onboard sound?

'fraid I am. :hmm: I just bought a new Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard and am using the onboard sound on it. You thinking that might be the problem?



cdrsubron7

[JScones]

Yep, that's your problem. Onboard sound takes CPU power. Get a separate soundcard, now, that's an order! :rotfl:

You can pick up a more-than-adequate Creative Audigy for $50, tops.

In the meantime, turn hardware acceleration down/off. It may help.

[jasonb885]

Originally Posted by JScones

Yep, that's your problem. Onboard sound takes CPU power. Get a separate soundcard, now, that's an order! :rotfl:

You can pick up a more-than-adequate Creative Audigy for $50, tops.

In the meantime, turn hardware acceleration down/off. It may help.

The dude said he had an X2, no?

I think in this instance the CPU can probably handle the overhead.

That said, the actual on-board sound implementation is likely ac97, which is just trash. So, yes, I'd still get an Audiogy. Sounds actually lag out SH3 for me with on-board ac97. Quite sad.