I thought the game was a lot uglier and less usable than it actually is, because something is broken about my nav screen, and maybe others. I only realized when I watch a training video.
http://snag.gy/UpmC7.jpg -- that's me in the training system, so I don't use up my demo time
Changing graphical options doesn't seem to help. I haven't tried fullscreen mode, but I *really* don't want to use that.
Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro running Bootcamp (i.e. it's actually running Windows 7 directly, not a VM).
CPU: Core2 Duo P8700
RAM: 4GiB
Video card: GeForce 9400M
This makes it, to put it mildly, rather hard to get around, so I'm going to stop burning demo time until someone helps me fix it I guess.
-Robin
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Naturally, I figured it out immediately after; it was the one graphical control I hadn't touched as obviously irrelevant: shaders.
I had shaders set to off, because I find shadows a waste of CPU in a game (although having thought about it more, that probably means texture shading, not actual shadows). Setting it to Limited solves the problem (and boy, was I missing a lot).
-Robin
I had shaders set to off, because I find shadows a waste of CPU in a game (although having thought about it more, that probably means texture shading, not actual shadows). Setting it to Limited solves the problem (and boy, was I missing a lot).
-Robin
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Hi and welcome.
Great that you got it working and yes, you did miss out on a lot LOL!
Hop on MP and you'll get a lot of help if you need it.
Great that you got it working and yes, you did miss out on a lot LOL!
Hop on MP and you'll get a lot of help if you need it.
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Hi Rlpowell, welcome to the game and forum and hope to see you out there some time....
I have turned off shaders many times in the beginning trying to get the best frame rate performance in the game but it never gave me the problem you are showing so it must be Macbook specific....
I have turned off shaders many times in the beginning trying to get the best frame rate performance in the game but it never gave me the problem you are showing so it must be Macbook specific....
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Yes, that's why I haven't said "FIXED" in the subject line, as the problem still exists. In fact, sometimes it happens anyways and I have to restart the game.
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What driver version are you using? With 'M' series 3D cards, problems like that seem to often be driver related. Also, what stage can your system reach with the memory test program available in this post: http://www.starwraith.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6595