Beta (159) is laggier than alpha for me
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Join Date: 2010-07-26 Member: 73039Members
Join Date: 2010-07-26 Member: 73039Members
<div class="IPBDescription">wtf</div>hey guys,
in the past i've ran alpha on my macbook pro (2.2 dual core and 2gb of ram) on windows xp and the game was laggy due to connectivity and ping issues. I ran a server by myself on max graphics and everything was smooth. Now, months later i installed win 7. loaded the game up and i notice significant lag reduction when i'd lower the graphics... also it takes longer to open the game itself compared to before (when it opened instantly). It also takes longer to load the game if we forget about the connectivity issues in alpha for a second. Also, my ping at one point was the best in the server and i still couldn't aim if my life depended on it. I run starcraft 2 just fine so i'm pretty sure it is not a graphics issue, i'll still update the graphics card and try again in a few days (as i'm very busy at the moment and my precious time was taken up playing NS2 with about 5-10 fps.
any idea if this is a bug with the game, or what hardware issues could cause this?
in the past i've ran alpha on my macbook pro (2.2 dual core and 2gb of ram) on windows xp and the game was laggy due to connectivity and ping issues. I ran a server by myself on max graphics and everything was smooth. Now, months later i installed win 7. loaded the game up and i notice significant lag reduction when i'd lower the graphics... also it takes longer to open the game itself compared to before (when it opened instantly). It also takes longer to load the game if we forget about the connectivity issues in alpha for a second. Also, my ping at one point was the best in the server and i still couldn't aim if my life depended on it. I run starcraft 2 just fine so i'm pretty sure it is not a graphics issue, i'll still update the graphics card and try again in a few days (as i'm very busy at the moment and my precious time was taken up playing NS2 with about 5-10 fps.
any idea if this is a bug with the game, or what hardware issues could cause this?
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A bit later I put my graphics up to max, joined the other armory server that had a 12 man rockdown map running and it was decent, occasional stuttering and couldnt hit sh...err... jack, but definetly playable.
Try playing on servers running less players, I think you need Skynets upgraded cousin to run a 16 man tram map server at this time.
For a little perspective, B159 was a huge improvement for me. My system is an Intel i7-950, 12GB RAM, Win7 64-bit, Nvidia GTX-470.
I just hope so, because i would be first of all angry on me, wasting my money on a game that i can't play on my computer, and then i would be sad, because i couldn't play it :(
Guys, it is not a waste of money if you can't run the game well yet on your computer. We are constantly optimizing the game, little by little, and are going to continue optimizing the heck out of it in as many ways that we can, in order to get it playable on high and low end systems. At the same time, we do have a game to make, so all the optimizing that is going to happen isn't going to all get done at once...it will be occurring all the way until release, and maybe even after.
This is the kind of thing that goes on behind close doors on normal game releases, where they are optimizing it right up until the end. You guys are just getting to play with a version of the game that normally only the developers see.
--Cory
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I couldn't have said it any better, so...
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Personally this build has improved performance TREMENDOUSLY (did i spell it right? *ponders*). As with many other people reporting that this build has done so for them too.
This is the kind of thing that goes on behind close doors on normal game releases, where they are optimizing it right up until the end. You guys are just getting to play with a version of the game that normally only the developers see.
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Don't understand me wrong, i know the game will be optimized a lot, but i am talking about the moment when the developers would come and say "Sry, its finished, we can't optimize it anymore without changing the whole XXXX". I really hope that the performance will be fine when the game is nearly finished, but i am worried about that even WHEN this is finished, my computer won't handle this game well.
EDIT: Ok i tested the game now too with HIGH settings, strangly i have the same fps as on low. I didn't changed the resolution, can test it out next time i want to start the game. (It takes a long time to open, and even longer to create a lan server)
it is rather unrealistic to say that a game should be optimized to be able to handle extremely low end machines, by that i do mean PC's with outdated hardware.
There is always so much optimization that they can do. Compare the minimum requirements of games 10 years ago against games of 2010. There is just that much difference.
If you do want to play the game that badly, you would need to look at upgrading your hardware and not assume that the dev's will optimize the game till it is able to run on a PC with outdated hardware.
likewise, i am saving up for my next PC when Diablo3 comes out, so plan ahead and get your PC with better hardware when the need arises.