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360 seems choppy

ConstipatedVigilante

ConstipatedVigilante

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A buddy of mine has a 360, GRAW2, and he recently got a 4th controller. Naturally, my buddies and I all gather together there and play online. GRAW2 is good and all, and it runs well enough to play, but it doesn't seem entirely smooth. A round starts off silk smooth when everyone is running out of the base, then it slows down to 20-25 FPS. Since the 360 has a unified X1900/1950 (IIRC), it seems like it should be able to play pretty smoothly - my 6800 GS can play GRAW 2 at decent settings nicely. So, is this normal?
 
You're using 4-way split-screen?

It's a lot more work for the processor and video card to render 4 scenes at once than just 1.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You're using 4-way split-screen?

It's a lot more work for the processor and video card to render 4 scenes at once than just 1.
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That was my first thought as well. If the single-player game runs fine, but 4-player split-screen runs a bit choppy, that's just the limitations of the hardware. This is often why most games have reduced graphics in multiplayer modes than single player.
 
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
A buddy of mine has a 360, GRAW2, and he recently got a 4th controller. Naturally, my buddies and I all gather together there and play online. GRAW2 is good and all, and it runs well enough to play, but it doesn't seem entirely smooth. A round starts off silk smooth when everyone is running out of the base, then it slows down to 20-25 FPS. Since the 360 has a unified X1900/1950 (IIRC), it seems like it should be able to play pretty smoothly - my 6800 GS can play GRAW 2 at decent settings nicely. So, is this normal?
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Its not just you, 4 way GRAW2 in HD brings the 360 to its knees. I noticed that after i play a few maps it tends to smooth out some though.
 
The thing is, we play on a regular SDTV - we don't have an HDTV available to us (at least, not in combination with internet). I would think that at such a low resolution, the 360 would have no problem rendering so much stuff.
 
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
The thing is, we play on a regular SDTV - we don't have an HDTV available to us (at least, not in combination with internet). I would think that at such a low resolution, the 360 would have no problem rendering so much stuff.
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hmm that reminds me...IIRC going from 720p, 1080i, 480p, made no difference in framerate...i assume its something specific to GRAW2, but not HD output specifically. i always noticed it the most on Hydrodam for some reason...
 
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
The thing is, we play on a regular SDTV - we don't have an HDTV available to us (at least, not in combination with internet). I would think that at such a low resolution, the 360 would have no problem rendering so much stuff.
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The 360 will render the game at whatever the default resolution is and then scale it, which I think is 720p for most of them. I don't think that even if its a lower resolution that it will render at that resolution, it will just scale it.
 
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