My Radeon 32MB DDR is getting swap all mighty in there and that with 192MB of ram @ 800 x 600 with all graphics settings turned to minimum. Anyone got a card that runs it well? Would love to hear how the Geforce II Pro and the Prophet 4500 handles it.
Best Video Card for Anarchy Online?
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im pissed, i got accepted to the AO beta 4 but i cant download the frigging thing. all the servers are A. full B. suck C. down E. 600bytes/s
my 250KB/s cable modem really wants to download this too.
good luck with the card though.
my 250KB/s cable modem really wants to download this too.good luck with the card though.
Ive been trying to download the beta file and after numerous attempts am nearing completion. Have about 500mb so far - I will be REALLY annoyed if it stalls this far into it.
I have a Visiontek Geforce 3 and will comment on how well it runs as soon as I am able to play.
I have a Visiontek Geforce 3 and will comment on how well it runs as soon as I am able to play.
Runs great in town?????
Not heard of anyone able to stay over 30fps yet in town. At least with debug running. Am very curious to see how the TBR of the Propeht 4500 is doing here. Seems like this would be the perfect test to see how TBR would do. MASSIVE overdraw in a HUGE town.
Not heard of anyone able to stay over 30fps yet in town. At least with debug running. Am very curious to see how the TBR of the Propeht 4500 is doing here. Seems like this would be the perfect test to see how TBR would do. MASSIVE overdraw in a HUGE town.
Oooh, AO fans! How do you guys like it so far? Any of you converted EQ players? I'd love to know what you think of the game compared to EQ.
BTW, as for the original question, if you're getting alot of disk swapping, I'd credit that more to a lack of memory. 192 megs may seem alot, but I think with online games you need a ton of memory due to the nature of the beast (alot of communication between the server and the client, all that info needs to be stored somewhere, right?). I've been reading that 512 megs seems to be optimal for World War II Online.
BTW, as for the original question, if you're getting alot of disk swapping, I'd credit that more to a lack of memory. 192 megs may seem alot, but I think with online games you need a ton of memory due to the nature of the beast (alot of communication between the server and the client, all that info needs to be stored somewhere, right?). I've been reading that 512 megs seems to be optimal for World War II Online.
Well, I finally played for an hour or two tonight. The first thing I noticed was that the game seems more sensitive to overclocked CPU's than other games. I have a 1ghz Axia that I was running at 1.4 at the default voltage and the game was freezing up after playing for a minute or two. I lowered it about 150mhz and lowered the voltage to 1.7 and the lock ups ceased. Have played every other game I own at 1.4 without problems - could just be that it's getting much hotter here but Tribes 2 seems to still run fine regardless.
Was in the newbie killing zone which was pretty crowded and was playing at 1024x768x32 - framerates were generally around 30 (sometimes up to 40, sometimes down to 20) with my overclocked Geforce 3. I know they are running in "debug" mode and Im guessing that this is causing lower framerates than we are going to see once the game is actually released. Considering people are getting VERY low framerates with WW II online despite the absolutely awful graphics of the game, this isn't too bad considering the graphics in AO are very, very good (former EQ player and I find them much better).
So far, Im very impressed with the game. Definitely going to be the MMOG to have and I imagine its going to be insanely popular and steal many EQ/UO/AC players. Also seems to have less bugs than any of those games did at a comparable stage - Im sure there are going to be a number and servers are going to be overloaded for a while but its not going to be anything like the WW II Online debacle.
Havent tried many missions but from what I am hearing from other players, missions (which you can do solo) are going to be viable means of acquiring Exp and valuable items - unlike the EQ quest system which was generally always a joke and a waste of time. Ought to be able to play this game for just an hour or two a night and still have something to do - unlike EQ where you were generally forced to play for very long periods of time if you wanted people to group with and to accomplish anything significant.
Will have to play more - still get the impression that there is going to be a large hack n slash element of just killing spawns over and over but we will see.
Good thread here with more impressions.
Was in the newbie killing zone which was pretty crowded and was playing at 1024x768x32 - framerates were generally around 30 (sometimes up to 40, sometimes down to 20) with my overclocked Geforce 3. I know they are running in "debug" mode and Im guessing that this is causing lower framerates than we are going to see once the game is actually released. Considering people are getting VERY low framerates with WW II online despite the absolutely awful graphics of the game, this isn't too bad considering the graphics in AO are very, very good (former EQ player and I find them much better).
So far, Im very impressed with the game. Definitely going to be the MMOG to have and I imagine its going to be insanely popular and steal many EQ/UO/AC players. Also seems to have less bugs than any of those games did at a comparable stage - Im sure there are going to be a number and servers are going to be overloaded for a while but its not going to be anything like the WW II Online debacle.
Havent tried many missions but from what I am hearing from other players, missions (which you can do solo) are going to be viable means of acquiring Exp and valuable items - unlike the EQ quest system which was generally always a joke and a waste of time. Ought to be able to play this game for just an hour or two a night and still have something to do - unlike EQ where you were generally forced to play for very long periods of time if you wanted people to group with and to accomplish anything significant.
Will have to play more - still get the impression that there is going to be a large hack n slash element of just killing spawns over and over but we will see.
Good thread here with more impressions.
Nice writeup. Lemme know some more after a few more days of play. I'm looking forward to playing another MMORPG after quitting EQ a few months ago.
The main problem at this point is the fact that its still beta. Its not just for those with overclocked cpus. There are QUITE a few bugs that are basically preventing gameplay all together. People are crashing quite often although I am not sure the cause as I have played for several hours straghit without any problems. The most annoying bug was I started over to join the Rebel faction. Got my char up to level 6 and I decide to go do some quests. Well the zone is down. So I cant go do quests. Zone is still down and that was two days ago. So I had to start over. (
The game seems very good. People are starting to role play their faction quickly and the combat works, it has good healing, running speed is based off a skill (One of the worst things about EQ is that it wasnt), tons of different skills to follow and beautiful graphics.
The quests I have been on were pretty neat. Although more just find this person in a randomly generated level to get your reward than set based objectives but that is expected at my low level.
The graphics lag is horrible. I may get 10fps if I am lucky when I walk into town with my Radeon 32MB DDR and that is with graphics turned all the way down and running 800 x 600. My friend with a Voodoo 5 says his graphics are running smooth but not in town. They are running full debug mode right now which is definatly a system hog and is probably causing ALOT of the slow down.
They are working hard on getting the bugs out and if they do this could definatly be an amazing game. I will more than likely buy it as soon as it comes out. As long as more of the bugs are gone.
Overall I would say its a very good game (If bugs gone).
(The game seems very good. People are starting to role play their faction quickly and the combat works, it has good healing, running speed is based off a skill (One of the worst things about EQ is that it wasnt), tons of different skills to follow and beautiful graphics.
The quests I have been on were pretty neat. Although more just find this person in a randomly generated level to get your reward than set based objectives but that is expected at my low level.
The graphics lag is horrible. I may get 10fps if I am lucky when I walk into town with my Radeon 32MB DDR and that is with graphics turned all the way down and running 800 x 600. My friend with a Voodoo 5 says his graphics are running smooth but not in town. They are running full debug mode right now which is definatly a system hog and is probably causing ALOT of the slow down.
They are working hard on getting the bugs out and if they do this could definatly be an amazing game. I will more than likely buy it as soon as it comes out. As long as more of the bugs are gone.
Overall I would say its a very good game (If bugs gone).
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