Very Slow Defcon w/Good Computer

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:34 am

Defcon is incredibly laggy for me...the menus and the actual game, which isn't even close to playable (~5 fps)

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz
2 GB RAM
ATI X1700

This is all on a laptop running Windows Vista...which i guess could be the problem. I tried reinstalling the game a few times, no luck.

KingAl · Postby **KingAl** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:52 am

Vista drivers for video cards have had notoriously bad support for OpenGL, which is the system Defcon uses for its graphics. Try getting the latest drivers from ATI - they might have better support, and hence run the game better.

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:42 am

haha, well, ATI doesn't support drivers for my card (on laptop), they say to go to my laptop manufac site...so asus. i'm dling the drivers now, but i don't think they're updated much (8.33 -> 8.33-C).

torig · Postby **torig** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:43 am

Nate5709 wrote:haha, well, ATI doesn't support drivers for my card (on laptop), they say to go to my laptop manufac site...so asus. i'm dling the drivers now, but i don't think they're updated much (8.33 -> 8.33-C).

Look for a changelog that describes what's erhm changed

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:27 pm

well i installed it...it did shit.

frenchfrog · Postby **frenchfrog** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:51 pm

Perhaps try bert small font mod, http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... 4571#49754

Please post back if it works or not.

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:13 pm

nope it does not help, but the font changes. Tinyfont looks bad with big text...but the game is still incredibly slow.

torig · Postby **torig** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:54 pm

How do other games behave on this machine?

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:43 am

direct x games are great. CS:S and CnC3 work very well.

xander · Postby **xander** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:32 am

Nate5709 wrote:direct x games are great. CS:S and CnC3 work very well.

How do other OpenGL games play? As stated above, it is probably a problem with bad OpenGL support in Vista.

xander

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:53 am

oh, heh. right.

i dont have any openGL games...i could dl 1 and try it.

torig · Postby **torig** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:44 pm

Nate5709 wrote:oh, heh. right.

i dont have any openGL games...i could dl 1 and try it.

Obviously, we're not going to _recommend_ you illegally download a game to test if OpenGL works....

Perhaps you could try a benchmark utility. I found this : SpecViewPerf 55.8Mb OpenGl performance Benchmark
here http://active-hardware.com/english/benc ... hmarks.htm.

Note I have no experience with this benchmarking tool...

Or you could use one of the benchmarking tools mentioned in this article (http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/).

Postby **NeoThermic** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:33 pm

You could try the Darwinia Demo.

NeoThermic

torig · Postby **torig** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:24 pm

NeoThermic wrote:You could try the Darwinia Demo.

NeoThermic

Good suggestion!!
Why didn't I think of that

Nate5709 · Postby **Nate5709** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:53 am

it doesnt even run. i have to end it.

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