water

[Yippee38]

Water animation on:  13fps
Water animation off:  32fps

With the animation off, the water is far too dark.  Water doesn't look like that from the air.

With the animation on, the wave sizes do not change with altitude.  So when you're right on the deck, it looks the same as when you're at 20,000.  That's a bad thing.

System specs:
AthlonXP 2600+
1Gb DDR RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Windows XP (sp1)
4.10 Catalyst drivers
Running AHII at 1600x1280 with FSAA and AA maxxed.

I suspect that the reason people with the better cards are getting the fps hits is they are either running at a significantly higher resolution, or because they have FSAA and AA cranked at higher resolutions.

[humble]

I ran a fresh install of the newest version after patch didnt take so all my settings are at game default. I'm running a T1-4200 and am maxed out at 75FPS (V-snch max) 99% of the time with animated water on...my VC a relic compared to most of what I see on this thread...???

[acetnt367th]

Originally posted by Yippee38


System specs:
AthlonXP 2600+
1Gb DDR RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Windows XP (sp1)
4.10 Catalyst drivers
Running AHII at 1600x1280 with FSAA and AA maxxed.

YOur problem for sure is your resolution. I have a very similar setup

xp 2600+ 266fsb
512MB 2100 DDR
Radeon Pro 128
Win XP SP2
4.10 cats

but run AH at 1024 x 768 (got a 17in monitor)

get consistant 40 fps sometimes up to 60 fps. Never get less than 30 even in furball.

I do you end it all before playing and this is setup for the min amount of programs running while playing. I also disable virus scan and windows auto update.

Have vsync on - only change I made to the default cats.

Also have the animation on

Acetnt


P.S. Waiting on the AMD price drop on the 7th (christmas sale) to pick up a A64 3000+ 939 , MB and new ram...:-)

[LePaul]

How's about nixxing the water and fixing the trees so from the side, they look right