Combat Evolved, poor performance on high-spec PC

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AMD64 3200, 768MB, ATI 9800 Pro. Framerate is frequently below 30FPS,
regardless of sync setting. Yes, I've read the bit about only using high
quality textures and no anti-aliasing, and have complied. Audio settings
have little effect (more on that later). And yet looking at the game I can't
see that there are any particularly sophisticated techniques being used - it
all looks rather 1990's to me - low polygon count and low resolution
textures, with few special effects. Is it supposed to look like this (or
does it look like this for everyone)? I'd point to a screendump but I've yet
to figure out how to do that.

As far as audio goes... actually I'll save that for another post.
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[mark]

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Same experience here, Mel. I just finished Half Life 2, a more visually
detailled game IMHO, and it ran much better.
Mark

"/mel/" <news@mel.cix.NOSPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
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> AMD64 3200, 768MB, ATI 9800 Pro. Framerate is frequently below 30FPS,
> regardless of sync setting. Yes, I've read the bit about only using high
> quality textures and no anti-aliasing, and have complied. Audio settings
> have little effect (more on that later). And yet looking at the game I
> can't see that there are any particularly sophisticated techniques being
> used - it all looks rather 1990's to me - low polygon count and low
> resolution textures, with few special effects. Is it supposed to look like
> this (or does it look like this for everyone)? I'd point to a screendump
> but I've yet to figure out how to do that.
>
> As far as audio goes... actually I'll save that for another post.
> --
>
> /mel/
>
>

 

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Mark wrote:

> Same experience here, Mel. I just finished Half Life 2, a more
> visually detailled game IMHO, and it ran much better.
> Mark

I perhaps spoke too soon - later in the game the graphics detail does appear
to improve dramatically. Currently I'm in an outdoor scene - a beach - and
it's quite well done. I am having to run in a low resolution though, and of
course with AA off. I think that the one thing I did to dramatically improve
performance was to disable specular effects.

There's a performance FAQ at
http://www.bungie.net/Games/HaloPC/page.aspx?section=FAQInfo&subsection=Support&page=techperfFAQ
though there isn't much to tinker with.

> "/mel/" <news@mel.cix.NOSPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ct5pec$lcm$1@thorium.cix.co.uk...
>> AMD64 3200, 768MB, ATI 9800 Pro. Framerate is frequently below 30FPS,
>> regardless of sync setting. Yes, I've read the bit about only using
>> high quality textures and no anti-aliasing, and have complied. Audio
>> settings have little effect (more on that later). And yet looking at
>> the game I can't see that there are any particularly sophisticated
>> techniques being used - it all looks rather 1990's to me - low
>> polygon count and low resolution textures, with few special effects.
>> Is it supposed to look like this (or does it look like this for
>> everyone)? I'd point to a screendump but I've yet to figure out how
>> to do that. As far as audio goes... actually I'll save that for another
>> post.
>> --
>>
>> /mel/

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