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Rank: Officer Main: Pure Evil Level: 5292 Joined: Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:20 am Posts: 1595 Location: UK > Wales > Bin+ computer with boardband :p |
Species 8472 wrote: After 7 years of getting progressively more anti-potato, SS has forced me to prepare for a non-potato machine. Coming soon(tm). There is ways to make a potato a super potato: Lower resolution 1024x768 or even to 640x480. Use a light GNU/Linux OS etc.. (But again SS doesn't support Linux natively (SS isn't a Linux game, support OpenGL! dam u!!!)) Issue also is SS doesn't support 1024x768 or lower resolution cause some of the GUI dialog's are just simply too big, would need to modify them or just move the buttons that are out of the screen to somewhere else. Full screen mode will also reduce lag. You could also go through the Star Sonata 2's texture folder and reduce and compress the textures to smaller dimensions (Fireworks batch process or other software). Remove/disable all bloat software that runs in the background like socializing software, virus scanners, etc.. Disable background services which are located in Window's case: Component Services window (Only disable what you know about). Change windows theme to performance mode via the System Properties window under the advance tag. Aim is to reduce RAM/Processor usage so you can use those resources towards w/e software your attempting to run optimally. Currently I'm a big advocate of Solid State Drives as a hardware upgrade, cause essentially its like having "low tier RAM" as your primary storage device. Hope this helps a bit. _________________ Fibre broadband in my brainzz! |
Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:24 pm |
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Main: enkelin
Level: 5600 Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:28 pm Posts: 11109 |
Markoz wrote: Remove/disable all bloat software that runs in the background like socializing software, virus scanners, etc.. The 10-year Star Sonata con: hiking performance requirements so you eventually disable your virus scanner to play. _________________ Hi, I'm Anil, a long-time player turned developer. I am Star Sonata's lead content developer, which means that I run weekly dev meetings and make sure that any proposed changes to the game receive proper review before going live. http://www.starsonata.com/features |
Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:23 pm |
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Rank: Soldier Main: Hober Mallow Level: 4921 Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:08 pm Posts: 3191 |
anilv wrote: Markoz wrote: Remove/disable all bloat software that runs in the background like socializing software, virus scanners, etc.. The 10-year Star Sonata con: hiking performance requirements so you eventually disable your virus scanner to play. That explains everything _________________ http://www.starsonata.com/suggestions |
Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:05 pm |
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Rank: Officer Main: iArcea Level: 13268 Joined: Fri May 01, 2009 1:39 pm Posts: 1989 Location: Huddersfield, UK |
Markoz: A lot of that has been done, bar disabling AV software...
That's why it's taken 7 years, the game has got progressively more and more hungry, it's not even pretty to play with HAVING to do all this shit just to function. |
Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:47 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: Mow Level: 9760 Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:57 pm Posts: 4731 Location: Kuratovo, Russia |
Honestly, almost 80% of lag issues are not related to the PC. Star Sonata 2 has always had performance issues (which have improved slightly since launch). It seems whenever there is a patch of any kind, the game starts to become laggy. There are times when SS runs at an amazing 60FPS on Very High for me, and other times when I am forced to play on Low settings to get above 30.
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Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:06 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: Pure Evil Level: 5292 Joined: Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:20 am Posts: 1595 Location: UK > Wales > Bin+ computer with boardband :p |
anilv wrote: Markoz wrote: Remove/disable all bloat software that runs in the background like socializing software, virus scanners, etc.. The 10-year Star Sonata con: hiking performance requirements so you eventually disable your virus scanner to play. During my time being in a call centre you wont believe how many clients have Norton + another 2+ virus scanners on top all working at the same time. If you manage to get through to me I just remote desktop and sort it, done lol (I don't work there anymore thank god). _________________ Fibre broadband in my brainzz! |
Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:55 am |
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Rank: Peon Main: Evade Level: 5731 Joined: Wed May 26, 2010 7:51 pm Posts: 3829 |
I didn't go through this entire thread, but did you even try to run the Beta Client and see how that improves your gameplay? If anything, just send Jey123456 a private message and let him help you out.
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Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:14 am |
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Main: GodSteel
Level: 3170 Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:23 am Posts: 272 |
Star Sonata is a game released only for Windows, yet admins want it to be playable on Linux and OS X. Yet they implemented it in DirectX technology which is not compatible with either.
Where's logic in that? I've never seen any other game dropping graphics to the '80s level just to maintain fps and I honestly believe I will never see one besides SS. I also don't believe this is matter of having people, there are a lot of small indie groups producing good quality games on multiple platforms. The difference is, they've got passion and plan for a game which I can't see in Star Sonata. Namely, I can't see JeffL to have any plan for how Star Sonata should look like in future and how it should be implemented and that's the reason for all this mess imo. |
Thu Sep 10, 2015 5:45 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: topbuzzz Level: 8015 Joined: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:31 pm Posts: 4347 |
and they probably have a lot of kickstarter funds to throw on bearded opengl programmers
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Thu Sep 10, 2015 6:13 am |
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Main: GodSteel
Level: 3170 Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:23 am Posts: 272 |
Well.
Maybe if u have little funds, you should plan and do stuff wisely. Atm, I'm seeing Jey playing mole mash with bugs poping out on different machines and OSes. |
Thu Sep 10, 2015 7:50 am |
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Main: flo02
Level: 2631 Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:13 pm Posts: 1551 Location: The Flohobian Empire |
ss has the efficiency of a hummer engine, your desktop might be able to run recent games with 50-60fps yet starsonata will be wutt wutt in da butt fps drops from 60 to 5 in big ass laser beam battles and projectile warfare etc.
_________________ monster543210 wrote: flo i saw you go from lvl 20-80..you were so nice back then |
Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:49 am |
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Rank: Officer Main: Pure Evil Level: 5292 Joined: Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:20 am Posts: 1595 Location: UK > Wales > Bin+ computer with boardband :p |
Godsteel wrote: Star Sonata is a game released only for Windows, yet admins want it to be playable on Linux and OS X. Yet they implemented it in DirectX technology which is not compatible with either. Where's logic in that? Well in 2014 DirectX has been announced to have a Open Source version coming out so if SS waits like 5+~ years it should be by then for GNU/Linux (or possibly DirectX will be dead by then if something new comes along).. + I found this while looking for bugs in the website: Reducing Lag: http://support.starsonata.com/knowledgebase.php?article=5 _________________ Fibre broadband in my brainzz! |
Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:25 am |
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