The Crystal Ball

[robtek]

Do you really believe that such a rant will result in useful answers?

At least you could post your system specs, if you want help and are not posting just to vent.

[ATAG_Snapper]

From your Oct 21 post below it looks like there are four things working against you:

1) dual core CPU
2) 3 gigs ram
3) Win XP
4) ATI 4600 card

Not your fault, I'm sure most, if not all, current games run fine on your system. CoD's code has not been optimised (yet), so it is very demanding on CPU, GPU, and memory for both to run well. Tweaking helps, as you found by turning off trees. But I've found in running Task Manager and EVGA Precision on a 2nd monitor while playing Cliffs of Dover that this sim is a real resource hog in all areas.

Others here with systems similar to yours will hopefully jump in to to make suggestions on how to further tweak your PC and or game settings so you get a decent looking display that runs stably for you.



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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 9
Crashes
Well, I bought another gig of ram, xp only sees three Gs, and i played for an hour today before it crashed.
I have to say i really like this sim. I hope they get this launcher.exe crash fixed. The latest patch has made things worse.
I am thinking of going to windows 7, and adding more ram, but from what im reading here, it seems others are having the same problem with W7 and lots more ram than i have.
Any ideas out there?



3 gig dual core with 3 gigs ram and ati 4600 1 gig vcard.

[katdogfizzow]

I like your investigative work there snapper. Now we know op is insane for thinking this sim would work on his ancient rig. Yeah, the fix is get a new rig.

[NedLynch]

Look, Win7 64 bit OEM version is going to help a lot.
Microsoft dropped support for xp a while ago, I can only recommend going to win7. XP used to be the staple for reliability and stability, but it has seen it's better days by now for sure.
I am absolutely serious, by yourself a new HDD and install win7. I know it is a pain having to reinstall everything you have so far on your HDD, but I am certain in the end you will be happy you did it.

[GF_Mastiff]

probably one of these guys like my friend; why buy a new, until it dies.

He refuses to buy a newer machine, cause there is nothing wrong with it. and it should run every software under the sun, because it's a computer.

and he paid $399. dollars for it and it should work like xbox. lol

[Triggaaar]

I've not been reading too much here for a while, waiting for the game to be in a better state, and just a bit surprised to read this:

Originally Posted by Snapper

CoD's code has not been optimised (yet)

Is that true? I thought they'd been trying to optimise it since the epilepsy debacle, have they said that there's a lot more optimising to do?

[flyingblind]

Must admit I am slightly bemused by the epilepsy thing. A few months ago they were saying anti-epilepsy measures were an absolute must for legal reasons despite massive performance hit. Then it was made optional with the ability to disable it - which of course everyone did. And now it has to be disabled because of the psychodelic colour effects.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

I've not been reading too much here for a while, waiting for the game to be in a better state, and just a bit surprised to read this:Is that true? I thought they'd been trying to optimise it since the epilepsy debacle, have they said that there's a lot more optimising to do?

Yep. According to Ilya's (Luthier's) last post to this forum the recoding should result in 50% increase in performance or better.

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Snapper

Yep. According to Ilya's (Luthier's) last post to this forum the recoding should result in 50% increase in performance or better.

That would be good. But how much are they supposed to be recoding? They can't do it all, and I thought they'd already tried to do it before.

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

I've not been reading too much here for a while, waiting for the game to be in a better state, and just a bit surprised to read this:Is that true? I thought they'd been trying to optimise it since the epilepsy debacle, have they said that there's a lot more optimising to do?

apparently the graphics engine is being worked on for the next patch, a forecast of 50% increase in fps

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Can't blame the OP completely, the minimum specs on the box were pretty misleading. People do tend to think of systems that are "equivalent" of a minimum spec machine as still being passable.

they should say what settings you'll be able to use with the minmum specs really. with a screenshot of the settings and what the game will look like.

ftr my rig is far from stellar, but the game became playable when i went from xp with 4gb to win7 and 6gb, and that was back in may.