Running the game like it was Crysis

Hi, im about to drop my game. and i just bough it yesterday.
My bad experiences:

-The Updater took ages to download the 2.5gb updates (no, my internet connection is 4mb)

-The installer toook a while. forgivable btw

-Here where the real pain starts.

The game says, oh!: your computer match the requeriments for Ultra
i say: Hell yes!, give it to me.
I select a Server and that. but in the "Custom your Character" Screen, it appear that a hamster in a little bicycle its powering my graphics. i sayd: ok, maybe i have to configure the graphics.
In the Game it was awful, even with the ULTRA mode, and all that **** in high, it was if i were trying to run in a 1994 rig.
at least i used a Trial for the game, my serial game is safe and maybe returned to my retail store.

Please, help me to know what im doing wrong

oh yes, my specs:
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5750 2.0 GHZ
4096 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2 × 2048)
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600 Graphics 512 MB GDDR3 Dedicated Memory
High definition audio - 2 channel
Blu-Ray ROM
it runs Crysis in High, so i think it could run this pretty fine

What are your graphics settings?

I would suggest dropping the graphics to low, seeing if everything works fine and then putting them up again in small incriments to see what is causing the issues.

And maybe provide more information that 'a hamster is providing the graphics'. Do they look bad? Or is it a frame rate issue? Or are some missing? What is the actual problem?

A lot of users are struggline with Anti Aliasing and Advanced Occlusion, so turn those down/off first and try that.

I'm finding the struggle lately is the shadowing on every object in game. The 2600 is likely choking on that. Set Amb-Occ to Performance/Gaussian, turn down water effects to no reflections.

Thats my first guess. I have a GTX260 but a Core2 e6850 and the shadows KILL my FPS.

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Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus This entire post should receive some kind of award for being both hysterical and fantastic. Well done.

You're using an old, even by it's own chip family, core 2 duo

Ancient, and underpowered to begin with, video

You are trying to run the new ultra graphics mode *DESIGNED FOR MODERN HIGH-END (note the high-end)* machines and ranting that it's not working very well for you?

OK.

Aside: I wasn't aware that the name "Gilgamesh" was available again (he used to be a red name in days long past), but that's a different topic altogether.

Edit: Ah, because it got changed to Gilgamesh_NA and Gilgamesh_EU when we moved forums, of course.

I think people are piling on the OP a little more than necessary.

FIRST: The new graphics settings are, in fact, brutal. They're pretty, with the shiny water and the nifty shadows and the reflection of You In A Window (for some windows), but they're brutal. At one point before I turned things down, I was getting about seven frames per second.

SECOND: The new graphics settings are new. Like, two weeks old. They may get better optimized. ULTRA in this case means "Ultra-pretty, ultra-slow" and not "ultra-fast."

So what do you do? As suggested, turn it down. Shadows and reflections are two of the biggest culprits. I'm not a real expert: try these two guides.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219881
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=217610

You shouldn't have to be a mechanic to drive a car, but right now this game has gotten back to that state, a little bit.

Welcome to Paragon, hope you like it better once you get settled in.

EDIT: I knew there was something to watch out for, but I didn't find it before I hit send.

Welcome to the game and the forums, Gilgamesh

I'd like to apologize to the OP for the tone of some of the responses you received. Come on guys, I realize that the OP was frustrated and maybe was a bit harsh but cut him some slack... he's just bought the game and found it wasn't working correctly, naturally he was frustrated.

Now to the OP, looking over your machine's stats I'm not surprised it choked on Ultra Mode... all the features of UM bring my machine to it's knees and I'm running a QuadCore 9550 2.8GHz CPU and an Nvidia 275GTX... I have to turn several of the options down a bit myself. Your machine should be plenty to run the game nicely with the Ultra options disabled and the rest of the settings about midway up but unfortunately it isn't going to handle the full quality options.

As a first step turn off all the ultra options and turn the rest down a couple of notches. The biggest performance hit is from Ambient Occlusion, Blur and Shadows... turn those off to start. Glow is another big performance hit, and IMO it looks ugly so I deactivate it as well.

Once you get your first character made and into the tutorial zone (and by the way I highly recommend you do the tutorial and read all the text there, it'll help orient you) check your framerate (type /showfps 1 in the chat window and you'll see your current FPS in the upper right corner) and open up your options (menu/options/video) and play around with the settings until you find the combination that gives you acceptable framerates with acceptable video quality. Many of the options you can adjust on the fly and they have an immediate effect while a few require you to "apply options". The only options that require you to restart the game are changing your resolution.

I can't tell you what settings you'll eventually want, it all depends on what you consider acceptable framerate and quality. Personally I dislike any framerate below 30 and really prefer to always stay above 45 so I tend to compromise quality somewhat. Other players aren't bothered by a 15fps framerate but really want quality... you'll have to find your own best compromise. The game actually supports a pretty wide range of hardware and I've played on similar hardware to yours... as long as you aren't trying to drive a 1920x1080 display you should be able to find a decent compromise that keeps your FPS in the 30-50 range.

Ultra Mode is the new shiny in the game, and right now it's a bit under-optimized. Likely you'll be able to use a few of the new options but as it stands right now you won't be able to turn things to "11". I've found that some of the options have negligible effect on my FPS while others can nuke it from orbit.

I hope these suggestions help you out, and please, once you start playing don't hesitate to ask if anything confuses you... all of us have been through the same thing and all of us were confused about something when we first started playing.

my computer yelled at me when I turned UM on...

I find my computer can handle anything but Ambient Occlusion on the highest settings... water/reflections? no problem... Move A.O. anywhere beyond performance? 20fps hit per step.

But I'm fine with that, it isn't as drool inducing as the other two.

Out of curiosity, why do you put a space before each of your punctuation marks?

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.