Flashlights
reeves
Join Date: 2002-08-15 Member: 1170Members
Join Date: 2002-08-15 Member: 1170Members
Everytime i go to play a game some lamer has his flashlight on in the midle of a well lit room, he does this for the sole purpose to lag the crap out of any 56ker who comes near him....is there any way at all i can change my settings to that either i dont see the flash light, or it at least stops the lag problem? i also get a crap load of lag when i am near a phase gate....surely there is something i can do...
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So, the solution is to buy a new video card, as I'm fairly sure they took out the option to turn off dynamic lighting a long time ago.
any way dont know what ya can do.
Eh... that's 4MB, hell maybe even be 8MB..
I myself use a GeForce4 MX460 64MB
1.34GHZ Athlon XP+
256MB DDR RAM
Though, usually on other mod's I get 80FPS or 60FPS Solid on OpenGL 1280x1024
Though, in NS it tends to go 30FPS - 60FPS randomly, depending on location.. usually in mainbase.
Oh GOD...uhm, can that even be considered a video card?...my tech jargon isn't very amazing, but I believe that is one of those wonderful "already plastered on the MB so there isn't **obscenity** you can do about it" video cards. In any case, <i>yes</i>, that is pretty outdated, at least to play something like HL (which in itself is pretty old, but add NS's CPU-hogging tendencies and it becomes pretty hardware-intensive).
I run Half-Life at 1024x768(even though it stretches my screenshots out vertically) at 99FPS, and I run UT2003 at 30FPS on 800x600 with moderate detail settings. It's a very good card, GeForce 3 equivalent.
EDIT: It was new in the box, and I just checked NewEgg.com and they're about $80 for the OEM version.
If you can't get a new card, try turning off dynamic lighting. type r_dynamic "0" in the console. If you want to examine the other options, try <a href='http://www.tweak3d.net/autoexec/halflife/' target='_blank'>this site</a>.
<a href='http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel830m/sb/1040793163514530-prd669.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/inte...4530-prd669.htm</a> <-your problem
See above.
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We won't get to the final generation of video cards for at least 8 or 10 years.
$80 for something that lasts 2 years?
seems like a good investment to me.
*or something like that
otherwise, just get a new computer. Processor speeds are so **obscenity** high nowadays a 1000 dollar computer will run your games for a long, long time.
Processor/Motherboard combos are usually sold around 130-200USD at my local retailers during their "combination sales" weekends. Could look into that if you have money.
Of course, if you have $130 you can get a GeForce 4 ti4200 which is a VERY nice video card right now.
EDIT: And this lag isn't related at all to your modem. It's your computer. Same thing goes for smoke grenades in CS BTW. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Processor/Motherboard combos are usually sold around 130-200USD at my local retailers during their "combination sales" weekends. Could look into that if you have money.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I got the following for $925 Canadian total (With my latest upgrades):
P4 1.8 GHz
256 MB DDR RAM
2 40 GB HDs, both at 2700 RPM
Printer
Deluxe speakers with a Subwoofer
Microphone
Optical mouse
Keyboard
CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo
CD-ROM drive
Radeon 9000 128 MB video card
Rage 128 Pro 32 MB (Before I had the Radeon)
You do realize that the HL engine is more like 4 years old, right? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Moore's law states that processor speeds double every 18 months. People have been speculating that this will fail for the last 10 years, but those engineers just keep on going.
For now, All I can do is dream....
Moore's law states that processor speeds double every 18 months. People have been speculating that this will fail for the last 10 years, but those engineers just keep on going.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think Moore's Law is going to do okay for the next few years. At some point in the next decade, they're going to make the electron paths on the chips too few atoms across, and Moore will break down.
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Nah... electrons will be replaced by optical and plasma interconnections. I highly doubt that humans of today have seen any technology that can compare with what is to come... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
As far as graphics go, you will never stop upgrading your video card unless you stop playing games or do not continue on to play new games. From personal experience, the satisfaction you have when your graphics look nicer is worth whatever investment you choose.
Plasma interconnections will still be using electrical charges to signal.
As for flashlights slowing people down, just use r_dynamic 0. It makes flashlights have no effect, so it's a double edged sword. You can't turn it off midgame I think, so you pretty much need to add it to config.cfg or autoexec.cfg.
<a href='http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html' target='_blank'>Introduction to Quantum Computing</a>
Actually, in the real world they HAVE some optical switching. In the real world practical progress with quantum computing is at a significantly lesser level.
I can see it now...
Schröedinger's Frag. There is no way to know if you've really killed the enemy until the scores show at the end of the game.
Not to mention a lot more "WTF, he was right there, but now he's skipping around, I can't tell how fast he's going!" "WTF? Now he's like in a blurred bullet-time mode, I can't tell which one is him but they're all running!"