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Reply to Question before Pre-order: Performance with Intel x3100 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

xthetenth, if you do not have the x3100, what card do you have? Crazysix, thanks for the info. How are you testing the framerate? Fraps? Currently, the drivers for the x3100 have very different results between XP and Vista. Some games run much better under one OS. Vista has some issues with Hardware shaders not working in many games, however some of the newer games such as Call of Duty 4 run much better in Vista. I am using XP, but even if the performance is worse in XP, eventually inte

Reply to Question before Pre-order: Performance with Intel x3100 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

When you say "sounds like my laptop" do you mean you also have the intel x3100?

Question before Pre-order: Performance with Intel x3100 in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I am debating whether to pre-order Sins of a Solar empire. The only thing that is holding me back is my graphics card: the intel x3100. Yes, i KNOW this is not a gaming card, but its the first intel card with hardware shaders and it can play plenty of games. My processor is the T7300, and I have 2 gigs of ram. Using WinXP. Laptop, so I cannot upgrade my card :( Here is some examples of the x3100's performance: In 3dmark05: 700 points with Hardware shaders on, and 925 points in

Best and Worst AI in 4x games? in PC Gaming GalCiv2 Forums

In your opinion which 4x games have the best or worst AI? My top three (no particular order): Galciv2 Space Empires IV (with TDM-AI mod) Alpha Centauri (however, friends tell me that if you spend enough time with this game, its predictable and easy. Never got that way for me.) Worst AI Ascendancy Space Empires V (before it was patched, and not counting any of the new AI mods) MOO3 (to be honest, i just don't understand the AI in this game. Some

Reply to Best way to relieve tensions between races? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I dont know what that means. How does that tell me the most efficient way to boost my perceived military strength?

Reply to Best way to relieve tensions between races? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Does anybody know exactly how the computer is calculating perceived military strength? Is it better to put a small weapon on a bunch of ships, or put more powerful weapons on fewer ships?

Reply to Best way to relieve tensions between races? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I think my problem is lack of military. Usually, I avoid having any military units until someone declares war on me.

Best way to relieve tensions between races? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Don't know what I'm doing to cause all the other races to hate me. But they get angry with me pretty early in the game. I don't have ANY influence star-bases either. Whats the best way to resolve our differences?

Reply to Performence with the new 3d engine? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I just turned on 'enhanced ship rendering' in the video options menu and in the cluttered areas where i was getting 15fps zoomed all the way out (before the icons replace objects), I am now getting 22 fps. I've had 'enhanced ship rendering' turned off this whole time because I thought it would result in slower frame rates. Guess not...

Performence with the new 3d engine? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I haven't decided whether I should pre-order TA because my graphics card might not be able to handle it. My card is the new intel x3100. I have 2 gigs of ram and a T7300 processor. I know this card is not a 'gaming' card, but it does at least have hardware shaders. In DA, on a medium map my frame rate is about 50 fps at the start of the game. However, later in the game, if the screen is cluttered with tradelanes, starbases, and over a dozen ships, it dips to 15fps, sometimes even 10 fps if I am

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Heh, several posts before this one left me with the impression that the game is almost finished.

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Is TA still on track to be released mid Jan?

Reply to Why is Approval on your Home planet so hard to maintain? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, i think the answer is simply that the population on my homeworld is way higher than my other planets. Of course I upgraded the entertainment centers. I built other things that added to moral as well. I guess keeping 30 billion people happy required more.

Why is Approval on your Home planet so hard to maintain? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've noticed that late-game the approval rating on my home planet is about half of every other planet under my control. Doesn't seem to matter how many entertainment centers I have constructed either. What am i doing wrong?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

So whats currently missing from the beta? Has the new graphics engine been implemented?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Even with all the missing features, TA > DA right now? I havent kept up on all the beta releases. How many more races do they have left to implement?

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor preview in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

How playable is the current Beta of TA? Currently, how many things are missing from the downloadable version? Is it fun? Does it feel like an expansion yet or do you feel more like you are bug testing for the developers? I can't decide whether to wait until the final version or to jump on it now. Don't want to spoil the game for myself.

Reply to NEW POLL: December or January release? in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

The recent preview at gamespy lists a December 12th release date...

Reply to How to force Software shaders? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

SOFTWAREVP isnt working, are you sure thats the right command? My Debug seems to think that it is: Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.********* Debug Message: Entering WinMain Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell ******* Debug Message: Going Fullscreen Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings. Debug Message: Using software vertex processing Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONE Debug Message: Game Resolut

How to force Software shaders? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have a notebook with the new intel x3100 gpu. This is part of the first intel series to have hardware shaders, but right now driver support sucks. The latest drivers (15.6 and 15.6.1) give me about half the frame rate that the 1.5.4.4 drivers did. When I run the game with the 15.4.4 drivers, I noticed in the debug that it was running in software mode, while after installing the new drivers, it detects and runs in hardware mode. Is there anyway I can force software mode so that I can use the ne

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

Have the system requirements changed? I am just barely getting by with my i915gm.

Reply to Is it possible to play in 16-bit color depth? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Yea, i was just curious because when I set the resolution to 800x600 that DID have some effect. I thought perhaps the 16-bit color depth setting might do something as well.

Reply to Is it possible to play in 16-bit color depth? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

How come I can edit the prefs.ini in "My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar" to: [Video] DisplayWidth=1024 DisplayHeight=768 ColorDepth=16 Fullscreen=1 After starting a game and exiting Dark Avatar, it remains unchanged and still says 16 -bit color depth. Am I being deceived? I tried changing the resolution to 800x600 as well, which did have some effect but was unplayable due to improper scaling of some of the menus.

Is it possible to play in 16-bit color depth? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Just curious because I am playing this game on a crappy integrated intel card. I get a significant performance boost when using 16-bit color instead of 32-bit for most games. NO, i cannot upgrade this card, i am on a laptop.

Reply to What does the Mixed Vertex Processing Mode video option do? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, I dont understand why there is an option to uncheck this. If having this option on automatically detects whether or not your hardware supports the new modes, then there is no reason to turn it off. It will turn itself off if it isnt supported, if I am understanding it correctly. P.S. my err says its using software mode.