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Orion Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 414 Location: Brazil |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:57 am Post subject: DP doubt |

What's the recommended system requirements to run DP with all that perfect graphics (RT world, dlights, etc)? I just tried here with 640x480x32 with my 128mb card. It's slow like hell. Even with almost minimum graphics it's a bit slow (<50 fps).
Do I need a 1gb video card?
Also, my CPU is an AMD Duron 1.8ghz, and has 768mb RAM.
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Entar Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 422 Location: At my computer |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: |

That's not the greatest as far as CPU's go, but more importantly, what is your video card? _________________ woh... feelin woozy... too much cider... http://entar.quakedev.com games fascination - My Game Development Blog/Journal

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scar3crow Inside3D Staff Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:22 am Post subject: |

On my 1.4ghz amd with 512 ram and a gf4ti4200 it runs fine at 1024x768x32 with realtime dlights, normal lighting otherwise, sometimes a tiny bit of bloom... By fine I mean over 50 fps unless the map is just crazy detailed or theres lots of dlights

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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: |

If you are using something that isn't the latest, type r_glsl 0 in the console. On some video cards like my GeForce 5200fx, it makes a massive difference. /I've hear the reason is that my card doesn't support OpenGl 2 shaders or something.

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Orion Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 414 Location: Brazil |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |

Yeah its a GeForce fx 5200. So my card is a bit outdated, right? EDIT: Just tried r_glsl 0, it worked perfectly! I'm now getting between 60 and 120 fps with just RT dlights on, I'll check out other stuff now. _________________
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scar3crow Inside3D Staff Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: |

More so your card is a weird one. My older card doesn't have that problem. Try the glsl bit and that should help.

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leileilol Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1322 |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: |

axp 3200, gf6800/x800, is what you at least need to enjoy dp with all the bells and whistles on at the minimum at a great framerate. People still use that crappy fx5200 card in 2008? ick. _________________

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reckless Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 390 Location: inside tha debugger |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject: |

gfx card is meat and balls on this it doesnt have to be anything spectacular tho an ati x1900xt 256 mb works just fine even my old gf 6600GT handled it quite good with 40 fps if you had rtlights for the map. cpu wise it doesnt really matter if its from the newer p4 series or even AMD's 64 bitters

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Orion Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 414 Location: Brazil |

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |

glsl helped VERY MUCH!! I tried using rt world, I got 5 fps, then I tried with rt dlights, rt dlight shadows, high particle quality and decals on. It runs fine with these configs, but it crashed after a few minutes! Turned off decals, same crash happened, but after a longer time.
And independing of the configs, when I turn on chase camera it chashes too.
I receive an error that the memory can't be read or written.
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reckless Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 390 Location: inside tha debugger |

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: |

are you on vista ? i had that bug with DEP "no execute memory protection" it can also happen on xp but for some reason it quite less often.

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Orion Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 414 Location: Brazil |

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: |

No, xp sp2. People said me vista has a lot of bugs yet, so I'll wait a couple more time to get it. =P And, vista eats too much memory, I should first upgrade my pc. Although amd pcs are slower than intel, amd pcs are easier and cheaper to upgrade, and intel pcs the parts are expensive and it's hard to find. But the advantage is that a 1.6ghz intel is as fast as a 2.5ghz amd.
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I didn't get the crashes anymore, I think it crashes when I turn on chase camera or turn on rt world dlight shadows.
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leileilol Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1322 |

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: |

Orion wrote:
. But the advantage is that a 1.6ghz intel is as fast as a 2.5ghz amd.

actually it's the versa, i.e. 2ghz axp as fast as a 3.2ghz p4
Just FYI, I get the crashes the same way too so it's not just your video card. I use AMD, XP and ATI.
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leileilol Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1322 |

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: |

orion, try gl_vbo 0 _________________

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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |

leileilol wrote:
People still use that crappy fx5200 card in 2008? ick.

This desktop predates those fancy new PCI express slots by about 1 year. The card I have is actually the best one I could buy for the standard PCI slot, all of the rest required PCIe.
So anyone with PCI, GeForce 5200fx is pretty much the limit.

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xaGe Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 329 Location: Upstate, New York |

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |

Baker wrote:
So anyone with PCI, GeForce 5200fx is pretty much the limit.

That's not exactly true is it?
PCI Video cards availible at Tiger direct

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