APB Reloaded Open Beta... Delayed :/

I really had fun with APB, was sorry they went broke. It was like a massive, chaotic game of paintball with vehicles! The fact that those vehicles handled like a crazy cross between bumpercars, rocket-vehicles, and 3-wheeled supermarket trolleys only added to the fun! :D
 
MeddlE said:
Signed up tonight, all installed no problem (or spyware for that matter)

Is there a list of OcUK players and there server and class?

I'm on Obeya playing enforcer, iimeddleii
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Will add you tonight.



Foxtrot, that your name ingame?

Mines "Hanko" , add me.

Got a sweet van couple of days ago, it's a bute.


Any other Obeya Enforcers for me to add in game?
 
arknor said:
my installation is 5gb so possily thats the right size if a lot of stuff is compressed
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It was all good, well compressed and installed without any issues by running the launcher.

It did install all the crapware though so I had to get rid of that manually.

There was a small 120MB update to download using the game's launcher.

I still think GTA:SA Multiplayer was more fun in Cops n Robbers mode.
 
I think there's quite a few things coming soonish though which will add more fun.

I heard of "gang wars" - 50vs50 matches
Racing


Krugga, what server are you on? if you fancy a game?
 
Hank_Marvin said:
I think there's quite a few things coming soonish though which will add more fun.

I heard of "gang wars" - 50vs50 matches
Racing


Krugga, what server are you on? if you fancy a game?
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Not playing at the moment as I don't really have the time for it and can't remember what server my character is on but I'll let you know as soon as I have some time to launch the game :)
 
Bah, was hoping the engine would have improved since original beta but it hasn't. My 2GB of ram limit me so much I have unplayable stuttering during game, and the load times are insane (when the game took longer than 60 seconds to quit I just ended the task, no game should take that long). I can play witcher 2, any CoD game etc... with no issue at all with my pc spec, but APB simply performs badly on 2GB of ram. Does anyone know of any game tweaks I can do to try and get a bit more performance out of it? or should I just give up now?
 
Cod games are very small though really, apb gta etc are huge.

I've read apb is much more playable with 64bit os and 4gb+ ram.


Ram's pretty cheap now, a small upgrade not an option?
 
Hank_Marvin said:
Cod games are very small though really, apb gta etc are huge.

I've read apb is much more playable with 64bit os and 4gb+ ram.


Ram's pretty cheap now, a small upgrade not an option?
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DDR2 ram is more expensive than DDR3 these days, and I've got a 64 bit os already (win 7). I could upgrade but I'm not going to for APB, I can play any other game I'm interested in on the market right now and actully be able to play it, where as APB simply runs badly. And after doing a bit of searching it is not just me, lots of people are talking about APB having memory leaks or bad performance.

If it was Diablo 3 or a starcraft 2 expansion that I was playing and had this issue then I would upgrade right away, but for APB I'm not spending a penny on upgrades just to play it.
 
Yeah i'm stuck in a ddr2 mess too with 4 x 1gb sticks, would like 4 x 2gb really.

Not so many other games out currently though, not new anyway, this is a nice distraction untill RO2 and BF3 although I do enjoy this a lot so far.
 
I've added Hank, Tasha, Neo and Foxtrot, I'm generally on in the evenings after 10pm and sometimes during the day.

My nick is MeddlEOcUK.
 
This could be useful for anyone getting stuttering, I just tried it myself and it has drasticly improved game performance, although it still can't help with the well known memory leak that the game has. I found it on the gamesfirst forum so all credit goes to the original poster.

Krunk Fu said:
This fix will let you turn texture caching back on (which you cant do in the standard video options/graphics options. Mainly im posting this so i dont have to explain this to all of my friends that need to fix the lag. So here we go.

Go to your Gamersfirst/APB reloaded/APBGame/Config folder, now look for the config file named APBMachineOptions (Make sure its the APBMachineOptions, not DefaultMachineOptions.) and add this to the bottom with a blank line between the stuff that is already there, and the new stuff.

bCompressDiffuseLocalPlayerCharacterTextures=true
bCompressDiffuseLocalPlayerVehicleTextures=true
bCompressDiffuseOtherPlayerCharacterTextures=true
bCompressDiffuseOtherPlayerVehicleTextures=true
bCompressNormalTextures=true

If you dont know, basically all this does is make it so you dont have to constantly 24/7 be reloading every texture over and over again.

Before I used this, turning my screen around caused HUGE drops in FPS.. and driving at full speed was almost impossible. This also makes combat easier because your PC can focus more on the bullets flying all over the place. I have tried what other people have suggested like turning off dynamic shadows and bloom in a config file, but that didnt help at all. Good luck everyone! (P.S. if you are enforcer i suggest not doing this so i can own you in game.)
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Excellent, will add you.

I have a Van for Sale on Obeya auction if anyones interested, filter it down to vehicles>Packer Ceresco> theres only 2 pages of them, find the one listed as made by "hanko" , or just have a look, quite fun.
 
Impressions so far, I like this game, a lot.

But.

Like Left 4 Dead it really needs to be played with friends. Going solo or joining random groups can really take the shine off this game.

There's a lot of potential with this game.

P.s. Dist, I'll add you.
 
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