I have an HP desktop-WinXP/sp3-Nvidia 7900GS AGP card-2 GB ram
That being said, I figured that I would not be able to enjoy any UM setting at all. (Been playing for 6 years, enjoying every 'new' change/addition/issue.) My settings are all on high, mapserves/rubberbanding are few and far between. On closed beta the worst thing I encountered were black squares where my contact and costume pictures should have been...that was fixed with a patch. I went for broke and cranked all th UM settings to high just to see what would happen. The game was gorgeous, but my framerates were in the 'upper fives' LOL. After experimenting I discovered it was the shadow maps, ambient occlusion and high reflections that were the culprits. The thing I love the most is the water! My settings on live have the water set to high, and reflection to medium..these 2 settings alone have made my game look incredible with hardly any loss of fps.
For a while, I had some delay with my keyboard. Turns out it WAS my keyboard..a GS11...I had somehow accumulated too many profiles in the game control panel, and it was causing a conflict and high cpu usage. After deleting them all and resetting my original profile, all is well. (I also got into Windows/Control Panel/Accessibility Options and unticked the Hotkeys, FilterKeys and ToggleKeys.)
Even though I can't crank my UM settings as high as those with newer puters, I am one happy camper. The only complaints I have are mostly cosmetic. The Ninja Braids/some costume pieces are missing, and the blackwad/nem staff animations are still wonky....but I know these will eventually get fixed.
There are wonderful and savvy people on these forums that have helped me so much, and I am grateful. Guess I posted this to give folks with older puters like mine a heads up, that with some fine tuning and good advice, you can enjoy a 'new and improved' look to this game we like so much.
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I have an HP desktop-WinXP/sp3-Nvidia 7900GS AGP card-2 GB ram
That being said, I figured that I would not be able to enjoy any UM setting at all. (Been playing for 6 years, enjoying every 'new' change/addition/issue.) My settings are all on high, mapserves/rubberbanding are few and far between. On closed beta the worst thing I encountered were black squares where my contact and costume pictures should have been...that was fixed with a patch. I went for broke and cranked all th UM settings to high just to see what would happen. The game was gorgeous, but my framerates were in the 'upper fives' LOL. After experimenting I discovered it was the shadow maps, ambient occlusion and high reflections that were the culprits. The thing I love the most is the water! My settings on live have the water set to high, and reflection to medium..these 2 settings alone have made my game look incredible with hardly any loss of fps.
For a while, I had some delay with my keyboard. Turns out it WAS my keyboard..a GS11...I had somehow accumulated too many profiles in the game control panel, and it was causing a conflict and high cpu usage. After deleting them all and resetting my original profile, all is well. (I also got into Windows/Control Panel/Accessibility Options and unticked the Hotkeys, FilterKeys and ToggleKeys.)
Even though I can't crank my UM settings as high as those with newer puters, I am one happy camper. The only complaints I have are mostly cosmetic. The Ninja Braids/some costume pieces are missing, and the blackwad/nem staff animations are still wonky....but I know these will eventually get fixed.
There are wonderful and savvy people on these forums that have helped me so much, and I am grateful. Guess I posted this to give folks with older puters like mine a heads up, that with some fine tuning and good advice, you can enjoy a 'new and improved' look to this game we like so much.