Tuning SH3 for a slow Machine

Tessa · 02-22-08, 07:24 PM

Recently I had to replace my laptop (previously the only machine I play SHIII on) as it got stolen. Though my insurance covered the replacement, I still got roughly the same hardware on my new one with a few notable differences: 1.66 Ghz Dual Core vs 2.2 Ghz Core Duo w/4mb cache on new one | 1 Gb of memory vs 3 Gb on the new one | ATI x1300 vs Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT and a 7200 rpm disk opposed to the usual slow 5400. Both machines have (had) XP SP2 Media Center as the OS.

On my old laptop never had the problem with skimming the periscope as you refer too, main places it would choke is going anywhere fast and having any extra animation on the screen. Biggest problem was travelling at 1024 speed was dangerous as you might collide with something as you're trying to slow down the time or even just to pause it. Extra RAM will never hurt, though think you need a good pairing of any two: ram, cpu, video. I haven't installed it yet on my desktop machine which could potentially give better clues. It's got 4gb of ram, same video but a highly overclocked dual core cpu. Only factor that might skew anything is that the desktop has Vista x64 on it.

hammer-princess · 02-23-08, 02:56 AM

Vista again?!

Grayson02sept1980 · 02-24-08, 11:12 AM

I found the problem must be the Graphik chip... it's a lousy ATI Radeon Mobility X300! But miraculously SH3 runs smooth... well ran... till I installed GWX which blow my Harddisk speed and now with manual aiming I get problems with this animation of the blurring which I avoided with GWX using my WO to do the soultion...

But I adepted now and avoid those little "breaks" and then set up the Solution or swith to F6-screen where the game is running flawless 8I can keep some number

I know all my friends mobil phone numbers ahich are at leas 6-7x13-14numbers ... kind of a curse

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right now I miss around 25% of all shots but never one by this pc-problem... when I miss I did a wrong calculation or assumption... so the problem is somehow...not there anymore

02-23-08, 02:56 AM	#2
hammer-princess Watch Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In a rusty old sub Posts: 28 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Vista again?! __________________ And so the torpedo went 'tick-tock-BOOM!' The captain asked one of the crew: "Why is there a hole in OUR sub?!" To which the crewman replied "I put the torpedo in the wrong way round!" BTW, if anyone's interested in meh fanfic 'Paper Mario - What REALLY Happened', look up 'Paper Mario Story' on http://thebunnyhunter.deviantart.com

02-24-08, 11:12 AM	#3
Grayson02sept1980 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Germany-Bayreuth Posts: 276 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I found the problem must be the Graphik chip... it's a lousy ATI Radeon Mobility X300! But miraculously SH3 runs smooth... well ran... till I installed GWX which blow my Harddisk speed and now with manual aiming I get problems with this animation of the blurring which I avoided with GWX using my WO to do the soultion... But I adepted now and avoid those little "breaks" and then set up the Solution or swith to F6-screen where the game is running flawless 8I can keep some number I know all my friends mobil phone numbers ahich are at leas 6-7x13-14numbers ... kind of a curse ) right now I miss around 25% of all shots but never one by this pc-problem... when I miss I did a wrong calculation or assumption... so the problem is somehow...not there anymore __________________ SH3 Commander GWX 2.0 OLC GUI

02-22-08, 07:24 PM	#1
Tessa Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CG 96 Posts: 861 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Recently I had to replace my laptop (previously the only machine I play SHIII on) as it got stolen. Though my insurance covered the replacement, I still got roughly the same hardware on my new one with a few notable differences: 1.66 Ghz Dual Core vs 2.2 Ghz Core Duo w/4mb cache on new one \| 1 Gb of memory vs 3 Gb on the new one \| ATI x1300 vs Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT and a 7200 rpm disk opposed to the usual slow 5400. Both machines have (had) XP SP2 Media Center as the OS. On my old laptop never had the problem with skimming the periscope as you refer too, main places it would choke is going anywhere fast and having any extra animation on the screen. Biggest problem was travelling at 1024 speed was dangerous as you might collide with something as you're trying to slow down the time or even just to pause it. Extra RAM will never hurt, though think you need a good pairing of any two: ram, cpu, video. I haven't installed it yet on my desktop machine which could potentially give better clues. It's got 4gb of ram, same video but a highly overclocked dual core cpu. Only factor that might skew anything is that the desktop has Vista x64 on it.