QUOTE(karwaidotnet @ Sep 22 2009, 09:12 AM)
i know Cryptic designed the game graphic engine from scratch. well praised but i dun think it's well-optimized at this stage and it really requires MAJOR improvements/tweaking. i read in the forum - even some guys wif ubers rigs are crawling not much faster than my lappy...wif some of the graphic settings turned OFF.
Refer to my CO UI cuases major FPS nerf. Before that, everyone, med or high spec comps faces terrible lag when the Chat or other logs filled with text, the framerate dropped.
WoW and DDO "simplified" majority of its things in the game world whereas CO have a much detailed game world. WoW for one have a history of having good texture artists where they effectively uses the textures to beautify the game world (example: grass and dirt path in Goldshire, they are one piece of texture which requires 0 processing but a few MB of 2D memory on your graphic card)
As you said you play on your laptop, what is the specification? I play on a laptop too but a workstation one, Dell M90 with a workstation card with its power equivalent to 9600 with 4GB on Windows 7 RTM while at home, AMD X2 with a 8600GT 1GB card and 8GB.
This is my settings :
Legend : 0 = nil 2 = high for most settings
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PrefEntry GfxSettings.Antialiasing 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.AspectRatio 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.AutoEnableFrameRateStabilizer 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.BloomQuality 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.CharacterDetailLevel 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.CharacterMipLevel 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.CharacterTexLODLevel 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ColorMouseCursor 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.DisableSplatShadows 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.DrawHighDetail 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.DrawHighFillDetail 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.DynamicLights 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ForceVertexLighting 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.FrameRateStabilizer2 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.Fullscreen 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.FxQuality 2
PrefEntry GfxSettings.Gamma 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.GfxFeaturesDesired 229
PrefEntry GfxSettings.GPUAccelParticles 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.GraphicsQuality 0.666667
PrefEntry GfxSettings.HighQualityDOF2 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.LastRecordedPerf 3482.29
PrefEntry GfxSettings.LightingQuality 10
PrefEntry GfxSettings.MaxDebris 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.Maximized 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.MaxInactiveFPS 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.MaxLightsPerObject 5
PrefEntry GfxSettings.MaxReflection 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.MaxShadowedLights 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.MonitorIndex 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.PoissonShadows 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.PreloadMaterials 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ReduceFileStreaming 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.RefreshRate 60
PrefEntry GfxSettings.RenderScaleX 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.RenderScaleY 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.RenderThread 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ScreenHeight 1050
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ScreenWidth 1680
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ScreenXPos 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ScreenYPos 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.SettingsVersion 4
PrefEntry GfxSettings.ShowAdvanced 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.SoftParticles 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.SSAO 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.TerrainDetailLevel 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.TexAnisotropy 16
PrefEntry GfxSettings.UseFullSkinning 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.UseVSync2 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.VideoCardDeviceID 1026
PrefEntry GfxSettings.VideoCardVendorID 4318
PrefEntry GfxSettings.WorldDetailLevel 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.WorldLoadScale 1
PrefEntry GfxSettings.WorldMipLevel 0
PrefEntry GfxSettings.WorldTexLODLevel 1
Added on September 22, 2009, 10:08 amQUOTE(myremi @ Sep 22 2009, 10:01 AM)
Am keeping an eye on CO coz of complaints from GP users. Very hard to tell whether it's the Game or the Connection that is the problem.
Hmm....looks like Cryptic Studios just doesn't have a good track record from what I've seen over the years.Source?
Cryptic started out as a independent developer before being acquired by Atari. Developed City of Heroes / Villains that took MMO to a whole new level in spandex and that MMO given many praise from many reviewers. CoX bought by NCSOFT and formed Paragon Studios to look after its future development.
CO is developed for XBOX360 and PC so as you know, most games that have cross development tend to act weird on PC. Take Fallout 3 for example, still not many have yet to solve the crashing issues and Fallout 3 is cross develop too. With the game going through its 22nd day on live, its still too early to tell what will be optimized on the PC side.
CO started off smoothly but its the server location that brings certain degree of latency to most of the players around the world.
This post has been edited by onscreen: Sep 22 2009, 10:08 AM 
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8u8u bought CO!!! Did you left ROSE totally?
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