[JasonTush]

I live in the UK and will be buying the game as soon as it is released, however I have a small problem with the SP demo.

I have the following machines:

P3 700mhz
256 MB SDRAM
Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB (Latest ELSA Drivers)

P4 1400mhz
512 MB RAMBUS RAM
Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB (Latest Detonator Drivers)

The Second computer is much faster than the first and yet they both get the same FPS. Almost exactally the same, which seems really odd. But the main problem is smoke, when I destroy the Half-Track or approach the destroyed vehicle at the very start the smoke bellowing out from the wreckage drops the FPS to under 10. This is bareable unless you are looking at the smoke through a sniper rifle, which is necessary to sniper soldiers coming from the direction the half-track came in. Otherwise I get a solid 40.

I am running the game with All Max Detail, 1024x768 32bit, but features like Dynamic lighting and the volumetric smoke, or whatever, feature in the advanced has been disabled for the sake of FPS.
Any ideas?

Nope. This is a problem everyone is having. Obviously they coded in the smoke effects without much regard for your fps.

Anyone who runs up to the smoke as close as possible will see fps go straight to hell.

The only way to stop these slow downs is to lower the "Effects Detail" setting in Advanced. I have to put it all the way down to Low in order to stop the framerate from turning into shit.

All it does anyway is changes how much "smoke lag" is enumerated..

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[JasonTush]

Does MOHAA run exclusivly in Direct 3D or can the rendering mode be changed in the full game. If it supports Open GL then I was thinking that a nice utility like GLSETUP would sort me out. If not does anyone know of Direct 3D tweeking tools?

[Razor D Blade]

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"Nope. This is a problem everyone is having. Obviously they coded in the smoke effects without much regard for your fps. "

Bullshit, it's a system hungry beast ya tryin ta run myfriend.

I'm havin no probs wi demo or full game runnin @ 1280x1024 32bit all to the max & looking awsome, volumetric smoke all da trimmin's & acheivin 125fps on most indoor levels & 60-80 outdoors!

This is my rig:

T bird 1.4 clocked to 1533
768mb crucial pc133 runnin as above
Asuf V8200 GF3 Deluxe Core speed 220 ram @550MHZ
seagate ata 100 @ 80GB
Abit KT7A Raid Mobo
S/B 5.1 Surrround
W98SE

"A Homebuilt S.O.B"

Man i love PC'S

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T bird 1.4 clocked to 1533
768mb crucial pc133 runnin as above
Asuf V8200 GF3 Deluxe Core speed 220 ram @550MHZ
seagate ata 100 @ 80GB
Abit KT7A Raid Mobo
S/B 5.1 Surrround
W98SE

"A Homebuilt S.O.B"

Man i love PC'S

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Dear....God.....

Is there any need for such a machine?

[[EC]Mjr. Winters]

Theres no mystery there. The problem is the MX card... no offense but they suck
ive got about the same machine as the second one P4 1.4ghz etc... but i have a G2 GTS 64 MB. I always have like 50 FPS