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EVERYONE do this to speed up SRO no matter what comp U got

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:03 am
by desolator144
I can't believe I didn't post this months ago but everyone should do this regardless of how fast your computer is because Joymax coded this feature completely wrong in my opinion (though it's more like horrendously inefficient than wrong)
On the in game menu click options and on the video tab change shadows to none.
On a lagging scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being smooth as butter and 10 being a slideshow, Detailed shadows is an 11, Circle shadows is a 3 and Nothing is a 1.
I can turn everything to the minimum and turn circle shadows on and it lags more than with everything maxed out and circle shadows off. Unfortunately, the default when you install the game is Circle if I remember correctly so turn it off and it will help immensely :)

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:13 am
by Chaud
No duh, nivida cards get raped by shadows. Crap coders ftw!

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:43 am
by desolator144
that's not true. Morrowind shadows run perfectly on my BFG6600GT. Writing a game for ATI cards IS coding it wrong since AMD processors tend to work better with Nvidia cards :P (though that's highly debatable)

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:52 pm
by Hunter_Orion
Thanks desolator, it worked perfectly. I really didn't have much trouble before, but it defenitely improved the smothness lots. :D

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:08 pm
by Chaud
desolator144 wrote:that's not true. Morrowind shadows run perfectly on my BFG6600GT. Writing a game for ATI cards IS coding it wrong since AMD processors tend to work better with Nvidia cards :P (though that's highly debatable)

I meant shadows in sro...

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:46 am
by desolator144
:D okay well anyone on Venice that does this and now plays all smooth n stuff so they don't lag at all, no killing me ;) rofl

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:08 am
by supercolt
chaud
PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:13 am Post subject:
No duh, nivida cards get raped by shadows. Crap coders ftw!


lol that kid know nothing out nivida try my setup step one buy a quad sli mobo put a intel x6800 in it and then get two 7900gtxs and about 2gigs of mem and your be happy lmao

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:16 am
by Chaud
supercolt wrote:chaud
PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:13 am Post subject:
No duh, nivida cards get raped by shadows. Crap coders ftw!


lol that kid know nothing out nivida try my setup step one buy a quad sli mobo put a intel x6800 in it and then get two 7900gtxs and about 2gigs of mem and your be happy lmao

Try english. It's tasty.

Normal setups + sro + nvida = lag with shadows on.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:48 am
by ArJuN
supercolt wrote:chaud
PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:13 am Post subject:
No duh, nivida cards get raped by shadows. Crap coders ftw!


lol that kid know nothing out nivida try my setup step one buy a quad sli mobo put a intel x6800 in it and then get two 7900gtxs and about 2gigs of mem and your be happy lmao

Or we could not go overkill and waste a bunch of money and get something such as an intel core 2 duo e6600 a 7900gt/gs 2gb of ram and play any game out there? Sounds good to me.