Some of you might have heard my occasional grumbling in channel about lag and the associated issues with trials. Well in order to combat this, I tried a 'fix' that someone on a trial I was on suggested, namely turning the graphics to minimum.
It seemed to work. However I was teaming with Logan (@Atlantea) today and they said the issue wasn't the graphics but with the League system itself. Cue one annoyed Shader.
You see to turn the graphics down, which (which absolutely butchers the visual quality) it rather tricky. When I go to the Graphics Tab under options the game comes to a virtual stand still. I've never actually thought to monitor the framerate, but I've monitored the netgraph stat and it wasn't pretty. Several times I've tried to change something, and I've lost my connection.
In the end to adjust things, I've either resorted to the now out of date TweakCoH, or done registry edits via regedit. (Yes I'm showing my programing roots there)
This time however since it was such a big change I went into Safe Mode and then open and shut options. Volia! Ultra mode disabled.
However, I miss it, and need it back at least partially for the outfits.
Now my fellow Legendary tech... if you can understand the above... how do I restore CoX to its former glory without crashing.
Some assorted screengrabs are located here. These were just a few of the screen grabs I could quickly find. For better ones I'd have to root around more.
Note the long big spike in the netgraph in this pic here. That was when I was in Graphics tab and re-enabled Advanced Graphic options and bumped the Character detail to 100% and Very High Detail.
This pic here, here and here is how the game was before I fiddled with it.
This pic here and here is running around in min mode.
Atl wanted to know what system I'm running. Well it runs Ultra mode... just.
My system:
Optiplex 360
Intel Core 2 E7400 @2.8GHz
4GB ram. (yes I know 1 gb is not used. but upgrading to 64bit involves money I don't have. Dell only shipped 32bit)
Windows 7 Pro SP1 32 Bit (yes I know!). Windows Experience Index of 5.9 held down by the HDD. (The other numbers are 6.3 and 7.2)
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series card (it was a pain and a half to get a card that ran Ultra and fits into the case)
ASDL modem ... its slow, split via a network switch between several computers. The top speed is 50kB/s. Welcome to 'Hi-speed' net in rural Australia. The most I've ever seen CoX peak at is 20kB/s.
Anyone got any advise?
Shader
It seemed to work. However I was teaming with Logan (@Atlantea) today and they said the issue wasn't the graphics but with the League system itself. Cue one annoyed Shader.
You see to turn the graphics down, which (which absolutely butchers the visual quality) it rather tricky. When I go to the Graphics Tab under options the game comes to a virtual stand still. I've never actually thought to monitor the framerate, but I've monitored the netgraph stat and it wasn't pretty. Several times I've tried to change something, and I've lost my connection.
In the end to adjust things, I've either resorted to the now out of date TweakCoH, or done registry edits via regedit. (Yes I'm showing my programing roots there)
This time however since it was such a big change I went into Safe Mode and then open and shut options. Volia! Ultra mode disabled.
However, I miss it, and need it back at least partially for the outfits.
Now my fellow Legendary tech... if you can understand the above... how do I restore CoX to its former glory without crashing.
Some assorted screengrabs are located here. These were just a few of the screen grabs I could quickly find. For better ones I'd have to root around more.
Note the long big spike in the netgraph in this pic here. That was when I was in Graphics tab and re-enabled Advanced Graphic options and bumped the Character detail to 100% and Very High Detail.
This pic here, here and here is how the game was before I fiddled with it.
This pic here and here is running around in min mode.
Atl wanted to know what system I'm running. Well it runs Ultra mode... just.
My system:
Optiplex 360
Intel Core 2 E7400 @2.8GHz
4GB ram. (yes I know 1 gb is not used. but upgrading to 64bit involves money I don't have. Dell only shipped 32bit)
Windows 7 Pro SP1 32 Bit (yes I know!). Windows Experience Index of 5.9 held down by the HDD. (The other numbers are 6.3 and 7.2)
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series card (it was a pain and a half to get a card that ran Ultra and fits into the case)
ASDL modem ... its slow, split via a network switch between several computers. The top speed is 50kB/s. Welcome to 'Hi-speed' net in rural Australia. The most I've ever seen CoX peak at is 20kB/s.
Anyone got any advise?
Shader