Non-advanced terrain

[Skulls22]

     For some who don't have the greatest frame rates in the game, the non advanced terrain, I think, can be a little frustrating because of the water. What I'm getting at is that maybe htc could make it so the shorelines are more clearly visible instead of having the green fade into the sand which usually goes over water (water looks like sand)

[JOACH1M]

Turn "bump map terrain" off

[ImADot]

Here are samples showing the different settings and resulting views.  Most map-makers (at least this fledgling one  ) use textures on the shorelines to make the water look better (with varying color/texture for depth) and to make the shoreline itself look nicer.  In this terrain, I used a texture underneath all the water, and varied the water depth, to simulate a deep lake portion of a shallow river.  If we only used the default "deep ocean" texture, then low-res players would have no problem, but the majority of hi-res players would probably complain about the terrain's look.  Humans are fickle that way  .

[AWwrgwy]

You drove a tank into the water, didn't you?

I'm in the same boat. This is what I do,

1. Turn on detailed water if I'm driving on the beach.

It's not that big a hit and I turn it back off when I don't need it.

2. Driving by machine gun fire.

I use the hull gun to see where the splashes are dust or water to signify where not to drive. Just shoot the ground in front of you and watch out for splashes.

Just my work arounds. The lack of a definate segregation line doesn't really bother me that much.


wrongway

[curry1]

    For some who don't have the greatest frame rates in the game, the non advanced terrain, I think, can be a little frustrating because of the water. What I'm getting at is that maybe htc could make it so the shorelines are more clearly visible instead of having the green fade into the sand which usually goes over water (water looks like sand)

Really simple solution:
Get a computer that wasn't made in 1999.

[Skulls22]

Really simple solution:
Get a computer that wasn't made in 1999.

  got a basic vista, pretty sure thats not 99

[321BAR]

Really simple solution:
Get a computer that wasn't made in 1999.

ive got a constantly upgraded thru the years Gateway with a Dell monitor Detailed Water is barely able to be set for my computer

[Ghosth]

Vista, there is your issue right there.

[MachFly]

It seems like the new non-advanced terrain is worse than what we had before. I think it would be a good idea to improve it a bit, at least to the old standards for the people who don't use the advanced terrain.

[gyrene81]

got a basic vista, pretty sure thats not 99

turn off all non-essential services...there is a list in the technical support section...aero is one of the worst things to have running if you have a marginal system...and if you have one of those home inkjet printers attached, all that monitoring software is eating up cpu cycles and memory...acrobat reader loads stuff into memory on startup...remove all programs in "start up"...there are a lot of things you can do to increase performance on a marginal system...

get a better video card...and add some system memory...that will help as well.

[HawkerMKII]

Really simple solution:
Get a computer that wasn't made in 1999.

You buying....I'll take a..................

[Krusty]

ive got a constantly upgraded thru the years Gateway with a Dell monitor Detailed Water is barely able to be set for my computer

Thing about that is that you can only upgrade so much on a computer from 2001 and do any real improvement. That DDR1 is only so fast, those motherboards only allow so much FSB, so much ram speed, only such-and-such socket type CPUs.

I recently had to do a rebuild from scratch because I was backed into a wall, upgrade-wise. Needed a new motherboard, which then requires new CPU, new RAM (DDR3), and while I'm at it a decent video card, which required a new PSU, which required a new case to put it in..... Oh yeah, and Win7 64-bit to take advantage of the higher RAM count and 2 GB vid card.

I couldn't have had anywhere near the performance my new system has by upgrading the old one. Been there, done that, it's too much of a stop-gap. Sometimes you just have to start fresh with new technology.


I know, it can be pricey. Save up if you can. I got a tax return this year (did not last year) so I figured I needed a system to last me 5 more years, not sputter for 5.

[Flipperk]

OMG!


I just bought a new computer for $365 and it runs AHII at full settings at 60 FPS all the time.


AMD 255 X2 AM3 3.1GHz Dual Core Processor

nVidia 9500 GT 512MB Memory Card

2GB DDR3 RAM

500W Power Supply

Windows XP

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330531115188&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT


I added the 9500GT for $40

[321BAR]

Thing about that is that you can only upgrade so much on a computer from 2001 and do any real improvement. That DDR1 is only so fast, those motherboards only allow so much FSB, so much ram speed, only such-and-such socket type CPUs.

I recently had to do a rebuild from scratch because I was backed into a wall, upgrade-wise. Needed a new motherboard, which then requires new CPU, new RAM (DDR3), and while I'm at it a decent video card, which required a new PSU, which required a new case to put it in..... Oh yeah, and Win7 64-bit to take advantage of the higher RAM count and 2 GB vid card.

I couldn't have had anywhere near the performance my new system has by upgrading the old one. Been there, done that, it's too much of a stop-gap. Sometimes you just have to start fresh with new technology.


I know, it can be pricey. Save up if you can. I got a tax return this year (did not last year) so I figured I needed a system to last me 5 more years, not sputter for 5.

the Dell monitor came with an XPS 400 upgraded pack that my parents bought me when i was 16. i was thinking of throwing any possible things from the Gateway into the Dell (doubt ill be able to though... think the Gateway has PCI, while the Dell's got PCI Express... etc)... that and Dell computers really aren't... reliable... I dont have the money for a new computer yet. Recently got a cheap Inspiron for classes and no extra for anything especially with gas prices lately. Basically if i could i already would have

[HawkerMKII]

OMG!


I just bought a new computer for $365 and it runs AHII at full settings at 60 FPS all the time.


AMD 255 X2 AM3 3.1GHz Dual Core Processor

nVidia 9500 GT 512MB Memory Card

2GB DDR3 RAM

500W Power Supply

Windows XP

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330531115188&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT


I added the 9500GT for $40

Looks great. I am looking also, so this place seems to be on the up and up??