X3:Terran Conflict has arrived

PinkFloyd · 23 Sep 2009 at 18:47

rsatd said:
Actually I would love a game like this, except one that does not rely on my lobster accountant's hands in controlling whatever I am flying.

Use the auto pilot

Deadbeat · 23 Sep 2009 at 22:43

Shadez said:
Just read this

http://www.gamefocus.ca/?nav=upclose&id=36

I know this guy's inner pain:

One silly personal factoid about you?

I just returned to playing "Donkey Kong" again after watching "The King of Kong", just to find out that I cannot even beat the scores of my childhood, not to mention those shown in the movie.

I did this about a year ago. I'm sure I remember getting to some stage involving jumping on the faces of spiky jungle bugs, but for the life of me I can't get past this damn aeroplane...

Shadez · 24 Sep 2009 at 09:50

VeNT said:
ok but the next terran mission takes me though a xenon sector chock full of hostiles!
goes from EASY to VERY HARD in the drop of a hat!
also this missions marked as "Average"! godda take this guy I rescued to some system or other!

There is always more than one route to your destination.....

Failing that Jump drive.

If you are having lag problems try lowing the texture detail to medium. You should get between 0-1000% boost in gfx speed when they release the 2.5 patch.

antijoke · 24 Sep 2009 at 10:09

How would this run on a P4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI x600 mobility Radeon?

It really interests me but I want a decent experience playing it, and wont bother until I can get a new PC/laptop if it will run like a dog.

PinkFloyd · 24 Sep 2009 at 10:22

Shadez said:
You should get between 0-1000% boost in gfx speed when they release the 2.5 patch.

0-1000%

anticonscience said:
How would this run on a P4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI x600 mobility Radeon?

It really interests me but I want a decent experience playing it, and wont bother until I can get a new PC/laptop if it will run like a dog.

I think you'll probably struggle with the cpu being a P4, my 3GHz quad struggles at times in this game, although partially due to a relatively weak graphics card (4670) and a few plugins that increase cpu load. I tried the game out with a 4870 instead of my 4670 and it ran no better.

There is a demo for Terran Conflict so you may aswell try it out despite what I have said.

VeNT · 24 Sep 2009 at 11:14

having said that it's an OLD GAME.
drop the textures/aa/af down to 0 and it should be ok?

Shadez · 24 Sep 2009 at 12:23

anticonscience said:
How would this run on a P4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI x600 mobility Radeon?

It really interests me but I want a decent experience playing it, and wont bother until I can get a new PC/laptop if it will run like a dog.

Dont think it will run well at all on that setup the GFX card will really struggle.

PinkFloyd said:
0-1000%

Well 1000% is probably a bit of a over statement probably more like 100%

details of the 2.5 patch
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=258911

antijoke · 24 Sep 2009 at 12:42

Thanks for the replies. Shame it wont run, will look again when I upgrade my laptop some point never. lol.

VeNT · 24 Sep 2009 at 12:54

I WANT IT NOW!

rsatd · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:28

anticonscience said:
How would this run on a P4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI x600 mobility Radeon?

I bought it (somewhat stupidly) to play on a dual core 2.3Ghz AMD chip, 2BG RAM, Radeon x1950 PRO, and it runs quiet crap in a populated system or in a bigh fight

And looking at the changes

Fixed mission memory leak which led to slow savegames

That sounds like very good news indeed.

dalin80 · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:42

iam surprised they have released the 2.5 patch the devnet forum is still full of bug reports.

Shadez · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:55

dalin80 said:
iam surprised they have released the 2.5 patch the devnet forum is still full of bug reports.

its not out yet, they have just released details of whats in it.

PinkFloyd · 24 Sep 2009 at 14:24

I'm already running the release candidate of 2.5 -> not sure on most of the changes yet as I've only done it currently so the mod I'm working on works correctly

VeNT said:
having said that it's an OLD GAME.
drop the textures/aa/af down to 0 and it should be ok?

Like I said it's the cpu that is more of an issue. Changing from a 4670 to a 4870 for a test at 1920x1200 made no difference whatsoever to the standard game performance. It would have made a difference in combat ofcourse.
The game is heavily cpu bound.

VeNT · 25 Sep 2009 at 11:26

dunno why but it seems to lag LOADS when I'm in any kinda dogfight, 3.2GHZ core 2 duo, 2 GB ram, should not be this slow?
any idea what settings to lower that will cause it to get better in this situation?

rsatd · 25 Sep 2009 at 11:37

I found settings made next to no difference, the problem is the game. Somehow it eats quad-million core cpu's for breakfast (also I believe it does not make much of os multicores)

VeNT · 25 Sep 2009 at 11:52

I just don't get it! unplayable when I get 4-5 hostiles appear next to me in these "protect the hauler" missions
hostiles jump in, I lag, by the time the games playable they have killed one of the haulers! the pain is the ships are easy to kill once I've de-lagged!

rsatd · 25 Sep 2009 at 12:03

Well your pc is way better then my one, so hmm.

Tefal · 25 Sep 2009 at 12:30

I don;t get any slowdown and I've got a q6600 @2.7 Ghz (yes i know i should clock it more but i can't be arsed atm

)

Shadez · 25 Sep 2009 at 12:38

VeNT said:
I just don't get it! unplayable when I get 4-5 hostiles appear next to me in these "protect the hauler" missions
hostiles jump in, I lag, by the time the games playable they have killed one of the haulers! the pain is the ships are easy to kill once I've de-lagged!

You could easily be suffering from the save slowdown bug. This is fixed in the 2.5 patch if they ever release it.

Nate--IRL-- · 25 Sep 2009 at 12:44

VeNT said:
I just don't get it! unplayable when I get 4-5 hostiles appear next to me in these "protect the hauler" missions
hostiles jump in, I lag, by the time the games playable they have killed one of the haulers! the pain is the ships are easy to kill once I've de-lagged!

Yeah I get this when things get busy with enemies, pauses of Half a second up to 3 seconds for the first minute of the fight. Incredibly irritating.

I also have stupidly build a massive complex in Ore Belt, the result of which is sometimes 5 SFP (seconds per frame) in Ore Belt.

Nate