Graphics and performance question

[cultist]

Hello there.
I am wondering if i could play the SH3 and GWX1.03 without so much ... loss in fps.
I don`t know how this is called in english,but the game runs like ...
So here are my specs
PIV 2400
1gb ram
geforce fx5200 128
i`m not going to change these...so if anyone has any ideeas on this please say so
what i`ve tried so far
installed lite harbour traffic
and concrete textures lite
this improoved things
video options:
particle density 10
no sincronise
no good textures

i`m thinking i don`t need the surface of the water to be so good looking,i know that eats ram...other stuff would be the animations in the harbors,i could do without,also i`ve read somewhere that you can cut sound so that the game runs better,but i never saw the actual method (i selected no music already )

so what do you guys say
am i hopeless?

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Well matey, it appears to me that your video card is the weak link. The "recommended specification" calls for a 256 mb graphics card. Once that is upgraded, you should be just fine.

In the meantime, turn off all programs running in the background, like internet etc.

Run a full system spyware and virus detection check.

Defrag your HD. (Even a few percentage points frag here can reduce performance.)

I would also disable the concrete texture mod. Even the light version increases the size of the textures rendered in-harbor. The worst FPS in the game (even with lite harbor traffic) is in the harbors. Increasing the size of the concrete textures will have a negative impact.

Welcome to Subsim. Here is your potato peeler. Fritz is waiting for you in the galley. Lucky for you, it isn't Tuesday.

[cultist]

thank you for your quick answer
i will do that
by the way if i turn sinc on will it help or not?
who is Fritz btw

[SmokinTep]

Just don't bend over in front of Fritz.............

[ReallyDedPoet]

Welcome cultist


RDP

[danlisa]

Turning on V-Sync, with your gfx card will not help. Sorry.

A neat little trick to give you a little performance boost is to increase the CPU priority of the SH3.exe process from within the windows task manager. Set it to high after Alt+Tab from the main menu of SH3.

You can also double the amount of Virtual Memory on your system, this will help.

There are programs like Enditall & Xp Smoker which will manage the closing & restarting of programs that run in the background.

Also, make sure that you are not 'forcing' any AA or AF through your GFX card settings. Either turn them off or set them to 'Application Preference'.

Welcome to Subsim & enjoy the GWeXperience.

[ichso]

Originally Posted by cultist

thank you for your quick answer
i will do that
by the way if i turn sinc on will it help or not?
who is Fritz btw

Sinc = Sync = synchronisation

If this show any effect on the performance it should be a slight loss of fps.
So if in doubt, turn it off.

A neat little trick to give you a little performance boost is to increase the CPU priority of the SH3.exe process from within the windows task manager. Set it to high after Alt+Tab from the main menu of SH3

If nothing runs in the background (as you advised) SH3 will be able to use the CPU to 99% (=~100%) what means that a higher priority there does effectively nothing.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Fritz is a rather stocky, short, and hairy fellow. He's the head cook and galley boss, naturally also in charge of KP duty. (Potato peeling... and on Tuesdays... onions.)

That being said, he's not a bad sort of man. He's they guy who brings ya coffee when you come down from watch half-frozen... and explains many of the "unwritten" rules of the boat to newcomers.

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Fritz is a rather stocky, short, and hairy fellow. He's the head cook and galley boss, naturally also in charge of KP duty. (Potato peeling... and on Tuesdays... onions.)

That being said, he's not a bad sort of man. He's they guy who brings ya coffee when you come down from watch half-frozen... and explains many of the "unwritten" rules of the boat to newcomers.

Ah! You mean Jimbuna.:rotfl:

[TigerShark808]

Originally Posted by cultist

Hello there.
I am wondering if i could play the SH3 and GWX1.03 without so much ... loss in fps.
I don`t know how this is called in english,but the game runs like ...
So here are my specs
PIV 2400
1gb ram
geforce fx5200 128
i`m not going to change these...so if anyone has any ideeas on this please say so
what i`ve tried so far
installed lite harbour traffic
and concrete textures lite
this improoved things
video options:
particle density 10
no sincronise
no good textures

i`m thinking i don`t need the surface of the water to be so good looking,i know that eats ram...other stuff would be the animations in the harbors,i could do without,also i`ve read somewhere that you can cut sound so that the game runs better,but i never saw the actual method (i selected no music already )

so what do you guys say
am i hopeless?

Well you do need a better video card but as long as "we" all are talking performance it should be clear that BUS SIZE is most important when considering speed ..dont want to over work your controller

[MENTAT]

Hi there,

I dont want to steal the topic, but;

is there anyone who have tried this on a laptop computer with a 128MB Intel 915 GMA graphics card?

is it possible to do it?

[bgeorgalas]

With that graphic card no, but I am playing in an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1667G1, with an AMD 64, 2.6ghz, 1gb RAM, and an ATI X700 with 128mb dedicated VRAM...I don't use antiliasing settings, high minimap details etc and the game is absolutely playable.....