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OS Lag
What setting would you reduce to reduce video lag of Orbital Stikes?
What else does that setting effect if you reduce it?
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Re: OS Lag
Lowering any of the settings will increase performance to varying degrees. The ones traditionally make the biggest impact though are anti-aliasing and resolution. For a low end machine I would run AA off completely and just deal with the jaggies, on a faster machine I just run 2x to keep my framerate as high as possible.
The only settings I would be sure to max out are geometry and view distance. Most everything else can be run on medium or low. For a more detailed comparison of video settings see: http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2142_6.html
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Re: OS Lag
I always thought the lag was intentional, as sort of a "fog of war" type of confusion as a consequence for being under the orbital.
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Re: OS Lag
Kinda true Editor. You get the ringing and blurred vision, but more often than not, your actual FPS will plummet too if settings are too high.
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Re: OS Lag
Regardless of your effects settings, you are going to get some kind of slow down. My rig is capable of running the game on full max at about 80-100FPS, but I run my on all low (except for AA and effects) and I still get a hit in FPS with an orbital (not for long, usually a couple seconds). It's just too many partical effects in one area.
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Re: OS Lag
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Minimum FPS is what is important, i.e. how choppy it gets in a worse case scenario. I get almost zero slowdown under orbitals but on the flip side I also don't get to see a lot of the nice eye candy either.
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Re: OS Lag
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Rofl :S
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Re: OS Lag
I have enough raw computing power to run it on full settings and not get any slow down, but before I upgraded my computer it was a massive pain. Any time a missile hit my active defense, or an EMP or Orbital went off my FPS went down the drain. Turning down effects -should- help you, but it doesn't. There's no real setting that directly affects the particles from orbital.
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Re: OS Lag
Turning off "Camera Shake" in the game options really helps lag for me during an OS. I can run full detail with 4x AA at about 65-75 FPS with two 7900 GS in SLI running at 1600x1200. Leaving Camera Shake on makes these settings unplayable. Something you might want to consider Eroak.
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Re: OS Lag
Ohh, some good advice. running 1400x1050 resolution is a must for all my games (because that's the resolution my laptop screen is designed to run on, so there is no mixing of pixels). Everything else i keep on low except viewing range. I'll try the geometry too, maybe it will help a bit with the view.
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Re: OS Lag
Driving a buggy down the main road of Belgrade sucks with low geometry, lightposts pop out of thing air. But you can also see enemies behind the little railing-walls on the catwalks of Gibraltar if you stand far enough back (on the Toll station roof tops).
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I've also found wreckage and dust clears quicker on low settings. Feels a little bit cheaty using them. :\
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