Spellforce 2 demo runs at 13 fps @ 800x600

[TanisHalfElven]

my rig is below.
i have upgraded the ram to 1 gb so even fear @ 800x600 (with most every setting maxed out) and 4xAA and 8x AF with textures set to medium) with average fps of 40-70.

now i dl'ed the spellforce 2 demo and it runs like crap. really i mean 13 fps is unacceptabe.
and no matter what i do (i got the same result with 1028x760 that why i tried 800x600) i can't get fps over 24.

can anyone compare and tell me if something is wrong with my system or is the game just that much of a resource hog.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

hmm 25 + views and no replies.
i wonder why.
ps if you don't have the demo get it from gamespot.com just sign up for the free membership.

 

[BassBomb]

ps maybe its you continually checking your thread to see if people posted

 

[TanisHalfElven]

naw i subscribe to my theads. so that can't be it.

 

[TheRyuu]

drivers?

 

[TanisHalfElven]

the latest. ati catalyst 6.3 and the latest mobo driver off the dfi website.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

the latest. ati catalyst 6.3 and the latest mobo driver off the dfi website.

 

[poohbear]

dont know what to tell ya, it flies on my rig. :/ great demo btw.

 

[Fardringle]

Dunno. My rig is just a Sempron 64 (2GHz) with a 6600GT and 1 GB of PC3200 RAM and I'm not having any trouble at all playing the demo at 800x600 with all settings maxed including textures and 4xAA (in-game options won't let me do AF and I haven't tried playing with AF forced through the drivers yet). I'm not sure what my exact frame rates are but it's at least 30 except for a few seconds when I knock down a building and the fog effects slow things down dramatically. This is with the maximum of 32 military (30 summoned plus the two heroes) in the tutorial. I haven't played the actual demo scenario yet, but I'm going to try and force AF on before I do that just to see what happens.

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

Sounds like the game isn't optimized for ATI cards, much like Black & White 2 before the patches.

Are there any other ATI users out there having the same problems?

 

[poohbear]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
the demo at 800x600 with all settings maxed including textures and 4xAA (in-game options won't let me do AF and I haven't tried playing with AF forced through the drivers yet).

u can turn AA w/ the glow/bloom effect? i thought HDR & AA could'nt be turned on @ the same time?(assuming the game does use HDR, but i believe that's what the "glow " effect is, right?)

 

[Spike]

For those that got it to work is the game fun?

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

Confirmed by several posters on RPGDot. ATI cards are having major problems with this game, getting extremely low framerates.

 

[Golgatha]

Hi, your computer is now infected with Starforce. Have a nice day.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

yeah the game is really fun. in fact i am considering it over oblivion seeing how good it is.
hope they fix this ati card issue.