system requirements vs real system requirements

[veqryn]

So the system requirements on the main website are faily low. Apparently all you need is Windows, 128mb of ram, P3-600, and Geforce 2 or better.

I am currently running on a laptop with a Pentium 4, 1.7Ghz, 512MB DDR Ram, Windows XP sp2, Geforce 4: 440GO (128mb).
This is enough for me to run Warcraft 3 with music playing in the background, or America's Army, most of the maps.

Despite this, I have downloaded the Defcon demo to see if I would like the real game (it sounds super cool, I was nearly drooling reading the review), and the game runs terribly slow.
Now we all seen games with low framerates and such, but this was terrible. Even with every setting turned down to the lowest, and all my background windows stuff like antiviruses turned off, the game ran so Slow that I had to click about 20 times before the game would register that I had clicked. The mouse cursor jumped around the screen at a snails pace, and I was unable to get through more than 3 pages of the tutorial after 20 minutes of clicking next.

So please, can I anyone tell me what I may be missing for my computer? What are the real requirements for this game, even at lowest settings? I would not expect that even in the menu screen the game would run so terribly slow. Are there any fixes for this?

Thank you in advance,
I hope this can be fixed since I really want to try this unique game out.
Chris / veqryn

[uranium]

I'm just gonna listen in here, since i have the same problem.

Laptop specs: Centrino 1.5, 1024, XP sp2, ATI mobility FireGL 9000 (64mb).
I have completely uninstalled my grafic-drivers and re-installed to insure that i am up to date.

These specs should be more than enough to play the game, but something must be wrong, since i am expiriencing very low framerates as well.
I have changed the resolution to 640x480, low detail, no trails, no smooth lines, and so on, but still my CPU runs like crazy, and the framerate is extremely low.

Anyone who have solved this problem (or a similar one ) for Defcon please help us out, since it really looks like a cool game!

Cheers

Edit: btw am using v1.2

[el_cascador]

i had the same problem, i had an ATI 9800Pro, but since that card was messed i use a Nvidia GeForce 4MX 440
I had the problem at first but it was solved by installing the latest drivers from the nvidia site

[frenchfrog]

I guess it's probably some problems with your video drivers (the OpenGL part) because here I run with a 1.33 Ghz AMD, 640 mb RAM, GeForce 4 and I get over 70 fps in 1024x768.

Perhaps try to go in Options -> Tools -> Profiler to know where your CPU cycles are going.

[veqryn]

the cpu is all going into 'render'
So i guess that means my openGL isn't working so great. I have my latest video drivers.

Does anyone know what I can do?

[frenchfrog]

A trick from Uplink (don't know if it will work with defcon).

Try software rendering, put this opengl32.dll file in your Defcon directory. It need tons of CPU cycles to work which you don't really have with a 1.7 Ghz P4 ...

So i guess that means my openGL isn't working so great. I have my latest video drivers.

Same here so I guess it's just normal.

[link12827]

I have the same problem, and when i put the openGl32.dll file in the defcon directory it doesn't help, the slow framerate continues, any other suggestions

[frenchfrog]

At which resolution to you play Defcon? You can try to turn off some graphics enhancements and lowering down the resolution.

Also what are your System Specs? (Hardware and Windows version)


---> Don't forget to remove the openGl32.dll file if it doesn't works.

EDIT: Discussion continued on your other thread 'Why won't Defcon Run?' ...

[Hatter]

I just got the demo for this. It wasn't running all that well until I cleared my desktop and emptied the trash. Also I got rid of widgets I wasn't using, like the calculator or languages.

It works just fine for me as long as I don't have the movement trails enabled.
This is running at 1152x768 on a 667mhz G4 with 1gigabytes ram PC133 16 megabytes video RAM.

It gets hot, but after shutting off the motion trails it runs smooth as silk.

[xander]

667mhz G4

0_o

Damn. I'm impressed. It'll run on my 300 MHz G3, but it isn't playable.

xander