Guest Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 I recently had a shot at ACM for the first time and noted the following;- On the very first mission escorting Dip1, when my BC gets to the Tramis system I note a very severe case of FPS slowdown. observing the FPS counter it seems to be cycling between around 60FPS (normal) and down to 3 or 4. Once this starts happening it seems to continue regardless of whats happening on the screen. (as though some other processing is causing the slowdown) I have played a fair bit of FF and never experienced anything like this. Is this usual, it does make gameplay a little difficult? Specs are 2.08 fresh install single patched from 2.0 with no map pak. P3-450 Voodoo3 128meg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papi Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 It might help if you upgrade to version 2.09 final. And I was just wondering why didn't you install the mappak aswell. It gives more depth in ground ops.CMDR Jason Cloud GCV Silver Lining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 ACM is more processing intensive than Free Flight. In much the same way that XC is much faster than FF or ACM. Anyway, check your graphics card drivers and configuration. That sort of drop is indicative of either a config problem or you've gone and sent probes or NPCs into NULSPACE territory, which sets them to search the entire game galaxy until they find a way out of there. That route search is very intensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schacher Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 The framerate will pick back up when you start killing the enemies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse Posted January 19, 2000 Report Share Posted January 19, 2000 I noticed the slowdown as well. unless the link hasn't been updated(which I sincerely doubt.)I have 2.09 final. I think it comes form the sheer number of craft and missiles on screen at once. once I leave the aera, it picks back up about the time the mission ends. in case your wondering, I haven't changed anything from the default config specs and my system is a PII350 with 192 megs of RAM and a 16 meg Diamond Monster Fusion AGP. ------------------ Cmdr. Antilles ICV-Eclipse "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."[This message has been edited by Eclipse (edited 01-19-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 21, 2000 Report Share Posted January 21, 2000 Eclipse. That sounds similar to what I experienced. I was running 2.09 with Map Pak when I first noticed this but decided to reinstall fresh with only the 2.08 version as a matter of elimination. I was undecided wether it was a problem with my system or simply as you say the pure amount of computing going on! (hence my original post). My PIII usually gobbles up whatever is thrown at it, but it seems to have met its match with this. I have tried a number of different config settings etc but nothing seems to make much difference as far as I can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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