Some Giants (demo) questions

[oldfart]

Got and installed the Giants demo today. Looks pretty cool. How do I enable a FPS counter or do a timedemo type test? I've played it for about 1/2 hr 1024 x 768 x 32 everything on high, and it's smooth as glass. No slowdowns at all. I want to see what the actual framerates are. Also, does anyone know if where that screenshot was taken by IBMer is in the demo version? The link is now down. It was the one of the 3 different video cards. If so, is there a way to get to that area? (cheat)?
Thanks!

 

[Taz4158]

Once in the game press t then type fr!

 

[oldfart]

Damn! Even though gameplay is quite smooth, frame rates regularly dip into the low 30s! This thing is a killer. Seems like there is always that one game that is able to tax even the most up to date system.

 

[Taz4158]

Hi Oldfart,
Are your reg settings comparable to these?
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ATI Technologies\Driver\0000\atidxhal]
"EnableWaitUntilIdxTriList2"="1"
"TableFogEnable"="1"
"WFogEnable"="0"
"ZFogEnable"="1"
"DisableHierarchicalZ"="0"
"DisableHyperZ"="0"
"FastZClearEnabled"="1"
"Vsync"="0"
"AntiAlias"="0"
"ZFormats"="15"
"ExportCompressedTex"="1"
"DitherAlpha"="1"
"ExportWBuffer"="0"

 

[oldfart]

Yes, they are the same as what you posted. Should I be doing better than that?

 

[Taz4158]

Yeah. Let me reinstall Giants and see what I come up with.

 

[BenSkywalker]

oldfart-

"Also, does anyone know if where that screenshot was taken by IBMer is in the demo version?"

From what I have read, the demo is the second Mecc "Story"(level- Hunger in Codpiece hills, Rescuing the Smartie wife, Infestation etc). If so, then pretty much right when you start you are where IBMer took the sceenshots(at least, the ones with the Meccs😉). If it is the levels I think they are, all except one in the middle and the last one starts very close to where he took those set of screenies from.

Can you list what missions are in the demo?

As far as performance, be glad you aren't on any of the more demanding levels(no joke🙂). Certain stages, such as the final Mecc Story, run much, much slower then the boards you are playing now(if I'm correct in which levels they are).

 

[oldfart]

Yup, the demo is the MECC one. I'm trying to find the wife so she "CAN COOK MY BLOODY FOOD" now 😀 You are right, the 1st shot is there just as you start the game. What about the one with "ROBO"? Where is that one?

 

[BenSkywalker]

No "Robo" in the demo, you don't lay eyes on him until Mecc story 4 if memory serves, and then only very briefly(the demo, which has four or five missions is only one Mecc story, there are five Mecc stories and about twenty five sotries total, probably in the 100 missions range🙂Edit- Rethinking that, there are more like fifteen stories and probably sixty to seventy missions/Edit).

BTW- Since you mentioned that you are having a bit of trouble getting through the game, I'll give you a hint, use the bush🙂 You only need to complete your mission objectives, if they don't explicitly require you to kill anything, you don't have to(gives the game extra replay value, trying to make it through using KeA(Kill 'em All) strategy is pretty tough. Also, I recall now that there is one mission that you should come to soon that is quite a bit more demanding then what you have seen so far(Ripper Infestation). That one is quite a bit more difficult then any of the other levels in the demo.