Do you use shadows?

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 12:54

when i use shadows in the game(x2) my games begins to work like a power point presantaion my system is cpu:4.2, fx5200,521ram

esd · Post by **esd** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 12:56

Yes I do, unless the battle heats up in which case most machines struggle.

XP2200
1gb RAM
6600 GT 128MB

Al · Post by Al » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 12:56

Shadows kill frame rates. I didn't use them on my old rig and I dont use them on the new one either.

they are only eye candy and I'd rather have a smoother gaming experience.

Al

Zathos · Post by **Zathos** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 13:15

I tend to run with them on while I'm flying about empire building, but definately turn em off before engaging in some Xenon bashing

Paranoid66 · Post by **Paranoid66** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 13:17

Shadows, what shadows never could see much differnce when this was was turned on using a plain GEFORCE6800. after poking about without much noticable difference turned it off again due to rumours of slowdown. Am I going blind or just looking in the wrong places. When do you tend to see these eyecandy phantasms in gameplay?

Zathos · Post by **Zathos** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 13:18

Try sitting in the cockpit of a large ship, put the sun in the top left of the screen....and roll the ship......

.....Mmmmm nice

Paranoid66 · Post by **Paranoid66** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 13:24

OK will have to give something like that a try. Feel like I've been missing out on something.

esd · Post by **esd** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 13:40

Or approaching a Teladi or Boron trading station. The rotating arms cast shadows accross the station.

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 14:41

Well, frankly you need a decent graphics card. Running a 4200+ CPU (I assume that's what you mean by 4.2, anyway) along with an FX5200 is akin to installing a lawnmower engine in a Ferrari--it'll look and feel cool, but won't be all that fast!

Try upgrading to something like a GeForce FX 6600GT and it'll probably make a heck of a difference.

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:04

pjknibbs wrote:Well, frankly you need a decent graphics card. Running a 4200+ CPU (I assume that's what you mean by 4.2, anyway) along with an FX5200 is akin to installing a lawnmower engine in a Ferrari--it'll look and feel cool, but won't be all that fast!

Try upgrading to something like a GeForce FX 6600GT and it'll probably make a heck of a difference.

Its 2.4 i wonder how will REUNION will run on my comp

esd · Post by **esd** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:10

Given that an FX5200 only just runs X² (I used to have one) I would guess that it won't do very well on X³.

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:28

i guess ill have to play on 640x480 and 16bit

DrunkenPirate · Post by **DrunkenPirate** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:29

I have an overclocked 6800GT but I don't run with them on. Big mistake if you get into combat.

LeeE · Post by **LeeE** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:36

I have shadows on all the time but i've never noticed any slowdown...
must just be lucky

Post by **X-Warrior B AS** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:44

I like eyecandy. Shadows always on. The difference can be quite clear at times. Very nice looking when flying that Python of mine

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 15:47

Lucky you all

Galaxy613 · Post by **Galaxy613** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 16:35

Because I don't get into much combat I just leave them on.

Realplayer, don't feel bad about your PC specs, I'll have it worse then you in X3. I only have a Geforce Ti 4600 128MB, a P4 2Ghz, and 768 RAM.

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 17:20

Poor guy

jaus · Post by **jaus** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 17:38

there are shadows were

Player. · Post by **Player.** » Mon, 25. Jul 05, 17:42

In the game

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Do you use shadows?

Do you use shadows?