I tried something new today with my graphics settings today

As you may or may not know I do not have a gaming desktop. I don't even have a working desktop. I'm a highschooler with little cash and having a working desktop in the house is a non issue as my mother has a working HP Dv4 which you may know as "The laptop that reaches overheat temperatures upon powering up." and it has vista.

While waiting for it to crap out for her to get a desktop that I could trick out was going good she recently had it sent out to be fixed so it may have another year to go.

I did score a sweet deal with my school-to-work teacher at the university. You see I fix computers for a grade at the local university. I'm going for certification in IT and a major in Computer Science that I can use as a springboard towards Game Design.

Anyway my supervisor and I made a deal. I can take any of the parts of computers the university designated him to toss so I could make a PC to go off to college with. Until then I've been playing games on my HP G41-340us. I'm aware of how much stress I put my laptop through but I don't go for crysis level games. Its only temporary.

Up until now I've had things so that the game renders at 50% and had the graphics way down low. I decided to try something new. I used the command setres 800x600 and turned the world details up a notch.

I must say MNC is beautiful and I've been able to maintain 22-17FPS on Grenade 3 and Lazor Razor. Those are numbers I'm comfortable with. That is until my shared memory integrated card remembered that it sucked and slowed down a bit for 4 seconds each. match.







By the way assassins on G3: to quote the Portal turrets, "I see you." :twisted:

You could have just used Nyarlathotep FPS configs you know.

I did.

The level of improvement vs. the low looks did not do it for me.

I was getting 23 FPS with the configs and pitgirl looked like someone murdered a Hooters waitress, stuffed her and put her on display before a national audience.

One user suggested the 50% thing and I've been rolling with it ever since.

If I may say something, the bloom effect does affect my aim at a range.

Lol, MNC is optimized very well I guess?

Well where the f*** was you when I asked if it anyone, ANYONE AT ALL, managed to get this game working with integrated graphics. Now you must tell me all your ram/cpu/graphics specs.

I asked this elsewhere, to see if a simple 2gbRAM-Core2Duo upgrade from 1gbRAM-Celeron would run this game on my laptop if I can't upgrade from ATI Radeon Xpress 200m.

You get a fairly steady 17fps? I can live with 14fps, so 17 sounds reliable.

I have:

CPU
Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6600 @ 2.20GHz

RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2

Chipset
Intel (R) GMA 4500MHD Max Shared memory of 1759MB

I went into Engine.ini and found "Screen Percentage" and set it to 50.00

Then go to your options ad set everything down but leave world details up one notch. Open your console command and hit "setres 800x600".

Notes:
*Things will look a little pixelated this is intended
*This may be just me but if you want you can set Bloom to "False" if you find long range hard
*There may be occasional slowdown at inopportune moments but they will pass.

Make use of this list of common resolutions to experiment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

That's the exact same computer my girlfriend has. She liked Minecraft when I showed her the game on my laptop, but it ran like sh-it on her computer, sadly. Sad part is that her computer on idle runs about as hot as mine does when I'm gaming or messing around with the Unreal Development Kit.

Anywho, that mod could very well help those with entry level gfx cards. Quite frankly, resolution matters very little to me on a laptop screen so long as I can turn the eye candy up some, and I'm not looking at black bars along the edges of my screen. Heck, i might be able to get the World Detail up to Med settings if I'm lucky.

The only issue after that is that turning on World Detail is when my ATI card starts putting out those black artifacts. It's a Mobility Radeon 6370.

Worked pretty nicely on entry level dedicated cards too. I was able to turn World Detail to high settings and maintain a very playable framerate with the majority of classes (except Sniper where I want a steady 60+ fps.) What surprised me is that I didn't get any of those black artifacts either.