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[Pandut]

Ion Cannon!, on 3 Dec 2009, 15:16, said:

JRK, on 3 Dec 2009, 15:13, said:

Sobek your card must be ancient if it runs low ZH with minor lag. I can run ZH at max with no lag at all unless the map has bad scripting or path-finding. Even my laptop runs it at full settings though is more lag prone.

Not really. You just need a new PC. Seriously, you've missed out on at least the last 4 years worth of games, maybe more? PC's aren't that expensive, you could spend as little as £200 and be able to run most things. If you can't get money, get a job, do it for 1-3 weeks, then spend the money on a new comp.

But I'm just a poor ol' American boy

Really though, around April I might get a new PC, or at least new parts. But (And thats a Nicole Austin sized but) chances I probably won't receive any by then.

My cousin was supposed to email me about handing me a Motherboard with a built-in video card and many other goodies for free because he's not using them anymore. But that was about two weeks ago, and I have not received a e-mail yet from him >.<

And Ion, it's more then four years worth of new games :( The newest addition to my 'games-I-can-run-on-minimum-graphics-with-a-lot-of-lag-collection' was Battlefield 1942.

Edited by Sobek, 04 December 2009 - 05:36.

[Lizzie]

Though I don't play ZH anymore at all, I can play it maxed.

[Soul]

I can only play it on Low :(.

[n5p29]

played as maximum as possible.

btw, whats the difference between high and maximum settings? I think ZH only have low, medium, and high settings.

[Pandut]

Soul, on 4 Dec 2009, 14:43, said:

I can only play it on Low :(.

I'm not the only one!!!

[Red]

Max, but its laggy... although I no longer play ZH.

[Ion Cannon!]

n5p29, on 5 Dec 2009, 7:26, said:

played as maximum as possible.

btw, whats the difference between high and maximum settings? I think ZH only have low, medium, and high settings.

Maximum is custom settings, all ramped up to the top and also - in my case - means i've forced a doubling of the particle count through gamedata.ini

[Kris]

High at 1024x768 with minor stutter and lag issues....Yes, i can't afford good hardware unlike you lucky bastards so i'm still using a 2006 era AGP based motherboard with a smoking hot Pentium 4 3.2ghz prescott processor.

Ion Cannon!, on 4 Dec 2009, 6:16, said:

Sobek, on 3 Dec 2009, 22:08, said:

You friggin' lucky bastards

Not really. You just need a new PC. Seriously, you've missed out on at least the last 4 years worth of games, maybe more? PC's aren't that expensive, you could spend as little as £200 and be able to run most things. If you can't get money, get a job, do it for 1-3 weeks, then spend the money on a new comp.

I wish you can say that to the philippines where the minimum wage is 300 peso while a good hardwares like a GeForce 8 already cost around 5 to 6000 peso.

Guess what? I've seen a nForce based motherboard with a price tag of 15,000 peso while the GeForce 9 series graphics cards already run at around 10,000 peso...Imagine the cost of building a high-end gaming pc. The price tag would be insane...

Also, don't forget that original copies of games here run around at 995 peso (lowest) up-to 4000 peso (the most expensive). So we admittedly end up buying "pirated" copies of it.. ...

Edited by Kris, 06 December 2009 - 15:39.

[Ion Cannon!]

Kris, on 6 Dec 2009, 15:25, said:

High at 1024x768 with minor stutter and lag issues....Yes, i can't afford good hardware unlike you lucky bastards so i'm still using a 2006 era AGP based motherboard with a smoking hot Pentium 4 3.2ghz prescott processor.

Ion Cannon!, on 4 Dec 2009, 6:16, said:

Sobek, on 3 Dec 2009, 22:08, said:

You friggin' lucky bastards

Not really. You just need a new PC. Seriously, you've missed out on at least the last 4 years worth of games, maybe more? PC's aren't that expensive, you could spend as little as £200 and be able to run most things. If you can't get money, get a job, do it for 1-3 weeks, then spend the money on a new comp.

I wish you can say that to the philippines where the minimum wage is 300 peso while a good hardwares like a GeForce 8 already cost around 5 to 6000 peso.

Guess what? I've seen a nForce based motherboard with a price tag of 15,000 peso while the GeForce 9 series graphics cards already run at around 10,000 peso...Imagine the cost of building a high-end gaming pc. The price tag would be insane...

Also, don't forget that original copies of games here run around at 995 peso (lowest) up-to 4000 peso (the most expensive). So we admittedly end up buying "pirated" copies of it.. ...

Yes, but I was adressing Sobek, who i'm pretty sure lives in the US.

[BeefJeRKy]

Ion what custom settings do you force and how? I've got anti-aliasing on. Didn't know how to get anisotropic filtering on. Anything else?

[Ion Cannon!]

JRK, on 6 Dec 2009, 18:16, said:

Ion what custom settings do you force and how? I've got anti-aliasing on. Didn't know how to get anisotropic filtering on. Anything else?

I went into my Nvidia control panel and told it force anisotropic on every application, IE overwrite application settings. I think I just did Anti-aliasing and anistropic, there were other options but those were to increase performance, not quality. I also set them at their highest, so 16x for anisotropic and 16Xq supersampling for Anti-aliasing. I think that the options you can enable depend on your card / drivers.

[Pandut]

Ion Cannon!, on 6 Dec 2009, 12:33, said:

JRK, on 6 Dec 2009, 18:16, said:

Ion what custom settings do you force and how? I've got anti-aliasing on. Didn't know how to get anisotropic filtering on. Anything else?

I went into my Nvidia control panel and told it force anisotropic on every application, IE overwrite application settings. I think I just did Anti-aliasing and anistropic, there were other options but those were to increase performance, not quality. I also set them at their highest, so 16x for anisotropic and 16Xq supersampling for Anti-aliasing. I think that the options you can enable depend on your card / drivers.

Increase performance, making the game run smoother and faster without actually forcing any graphical enhancements?

Very interesting...

[Ion Cannon!]

Sobek, on 6 Dec 2009, 19:05, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 6 Dec 2009, 12:33, said:

JRK, on 6 Dec 2009, 18:16, said:

Ion what custom settings do you force and how? I've got anti-aliasing on. Didn't know how to get anisotropic filtering on. Anything else?

I went into my Nvidia control panel and told it force anisotropic on every application, IE overwrite application settings. I think I just did Anti-aliasing and anistropic, there were other options but those were to increase performance, not quality. I also set them at their highest, so 16x for anisotropic and 16Xq supersampling for Anti-aliasing. I think that the options you can enable depend on your card / drivers.

Increase performance, making the game run smoother and faster without actually forcing any graphical enhancements?

Very interesting...

The increases in performance are related to a decrease in quality. I am lucky in that I have a fairly good rig, so I go for maximum quality, as performance is already capped, at least for ZH anyway.

[Pandut]

Ion Cannon!, on 6 Dec 2009, 13:19, said:

Sobek, on 6 Dec 2009, 19:05, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 6 Dec 2009, 12:33, said:

JRK, on 6 Dec 2009, 18:16, said:

Ion what custom settings do you force and how? I've got anti-aliasing on. Didn't know how to get anisotropic filtering on. Anything else?

I went into my Nvidia control panel and told it force anisotropic on every application, IE overwrite application settings. I think I just did Anti-aliasing and anistropic, there were other options but those were to increase performance, not quality. I also set them at their highest, so 16x for anisotropic and 16Xq supersampling for Anti-aliasing. I think that the options you can enable depend on your card / drivers.

Increase performance, making the game run smoother and faster without actually forcing any graphical enhancements?

Very interesting...

The increases in performance are related to a decrease in quality. I am lucky in that I have a fairly good rig, so I go for maximum quality, as performance is already capped, at least for ZH anyway.

Damn.

For a second there, I was hoping I could increase the performance of Generals so there isn't lag ten minutes into every game without dramatically dropping the quality

[Ion Cannon!]

Sobek, on 6 Dec 2009, 19:41, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 6 Dec 2009, 13:19, said:

Sobek, on 6 Dec 2009, 19:05, said:

Ion Cannon!, on 6 Dec 2009, 12:33, said:

JRK, on 6 Dec 2009, 18:16, said:

Ion what custom settings do you force and how? I've got anti-aliasing on. Didn't know how to get anisotropic filtering on. Anything else?

I went into my Nvidia control panel and told it force anisotropic on every application, IE overwrite application settings. I think I just did Anti-aliasing and anistropic, there were other options but those were to increase performance, not quality. I also set them at their highest, so 16x for anisotropic and 16Xq supersampling for Anti-aliasing. I think that the options you can enable depend on your card / drivers.

Increase performance, making the game run smoother and faster without actually forcing any graphical enhancements?

Very interesting...

The increases in performance are related to a decrease in quality. I am lucky in that I have a fairly good rig, so I go for maximum quality, as performance is already capped, at least for ZH anyway.

Damn.

For a second there, I was hoping I could increase the performance of Generals so there isn't lag ten minutes into every game without dramatically dropping the quality

I haven't tested it, the drop in quality may be small. But it also depends on your graphics card on what options are available to you. You can try it anyway ^

[Pandut]

Lots of people said:

*Snip*

I just went through my Catalyst Control Center and turned everything from Quality to Performance. hopefully it should run a but smoother

[Gen.Kenobi]

It used to lagg for me on maximium when i was at my old PC. but now i can run on Supper-Ubber high, forcing a 1690X1050 resolution (due Opition.ini codding) without performance problemans

[Ion Cannon!]

Gen.Kenobi, on 6 Dec 2009, 22:06, said:

It used to lagg for me on maximium when i was at my old PC. but now i can run on Supper-Ubber high, forcing a 1690X1050 resolution (due Opition.ini codding) without performance problemans

Yup ZH looks pretty crisp on 1680x1050 with the forced graphic options.

[Camille]

just a side question ion, but what exactly do you want to prove with this poll? just curious.

[Ion Cannon!]

Camille, on 6 Dec 2009, 23:07, said:

just a side question ion, but what exactly do you want to prove with this poll? just curious.

Some people have been quite vocal that not everyone can play ZH on max, I wanted to pretty much disprove the theory. While not everyone can, 90%+ can.

Plus it means I can splash out abit more on particle count

[H4mm3r]

Can play any game on high or ultra high.
And tbh, I don't even play ZH anymore.