Game is unplayable now.

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by snownebula, August 25, 2013.

  1. snownebula

    snownebula Member

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    I just updated to the new patch. At first the games was laggy, but than it crashed after a while.
    I am running dual NVidia Geforce 680 GTX in SLI mode.
    8 gigs ram
    AMD 1100T 3.06 ghz cpu
    Crosshair V Formula motherboard
    Windows 7 64 bit.

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  2. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    exact oposite the game runs much better on my end.

    there's too many people on the server right now, that's probably why
  3. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    Have you tried to disable SLI?
  4. kalherine

    kalherine Active Member

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    Same to me i always have lags and i got (24 Gb ddr3 change the cpu and border to new i4 and titanium gtx)
    game just donĀ“t run after the a wile all units just keep in slowmotion,so im using again my old system.
    Gtx asus 680 i5 2500k ,runs bether but still game unplayble when lot units need to moove.
    So i never and a game must always leave, and i stop play until game start be fluid again.
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  6. snownebula

    snownebula Member

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    Disable SLI? That's about the stupidest thing I ever heard. If it wont run with SLI enabled than I don't know. I will wait until it gets resolved. I have too much work in 3ds Max to bother disabling SLI to play a game.
  7. exterminans

    exterminans Post Master General

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    Disable SLI. That IS the solution to your problem, the driver has no suitable SLI profile for PA yet and will therefor only cause trouble. SLI is not compatible with the way PA does memory handling for textures.
  8. ghostflux

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    It's very common for games to get their SLI profiles after the actual release of the game. Disabling SLI takes only a few seconds to turn on and off. This isn't stupid, but something anyone who uses SLI or Crossfire for that matter has to sometimes do.

    Too much work in 3D Max is just a weird excuse, you either game or you work, you can't do both at the same time. So why insist on having those two programs on simultaneously? Because otherwise it really wouldn't be an issue to just temporarily disable SLI.
  9. iampetard

    iampetard Active Member

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    I'm afraid you'll have to wait till release then.
  10. ace63

    ace63 Post Master General

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    Errr I am pretty sure SLI does nothing at all in 3dsMax.
  11. mushroomars

    mushroomars Well-Known Member

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    Yup, Uber will tell you to disable SLI as well. It's only working in a select few corner cases, and a single one of your GTX 680's will be able to run the game on medium settings (probably without shadows). Mind you most people with even high level cards are running on the lowest settings possible without shadows.

    If you really refuse to play the game because you want to run in SLI, you sound a bit entitled to me.

    Edit: SLI hardly effects 3ds max. If you really are having lag issues in 3ds it's because you need more RAM, not more graphics power...

    If your models are so high poly that it does cause strain on the graphics card, you should be using Z-Brush.
  12. kalherine

    kalherine Active Member

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    Sli has nothing to do with issius,even iff the game only, take some cores off the main gpu ,the other gpu will be there only doing nothing,disable wont resolve the problem.
    Try go to oldest nvidea or ati drivers, work for me on my old system,still on slowmotion but mutch bether now.
  13. garat

    garat Cat Herder Uber Alumni

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    Snow, we have no explicit support for SLI (it is a non-trivial amount of work). Almost guaranteed it is the problem you are encountering. This will be something we'll hopefully work on, but while we're still in alpha, it is fairly low priority. You can simply tell your SLI software manager to run PA.exe in single GPU mode - no need to physically disable SLI.
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  14. SleepWarz

    SleepWarz Active Member

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    Are you new to the computer scene? SLI being a problem with gaming due to the lack of support is well known. Not very many people feel like dishing out the price of a good computer on two video cards. That said, how big of a deal is it to disable one card, mr entitled?
    SLI is so gimmicky, cant wait until we get past it.
  15. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    we're already past it, can't you see the direction nvidia and ati have taken now? they're making single cards as powerfull as two or three. I bet they're even like : "why do we even put these SLI/Crossfire connectors anymore anyways?"
  16. kalherine

    kalherine Active Member

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    Exacly nothig moore to say,garat have say the important.
  17. snownebula

    snownebula Member

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    Lol some of the posts on here about disabling SLI are pretty funny. I'm glad that the you too know about managing single gpu mode too, unlike the other people ;) I especially like the part how I'm the one being refereed to being new to the computer scene. :D

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