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The game is actually pretty efficient in terms of the bandwidth required for the connection, except when you have to download a lot of content - at which point you might struggle to keep a decent ping on some worlds. The majority of the 3d models, sounds and textures you need for Biplaneworld and Battlezone are included in the full game installer. For Reina Roja you'll need to grab the world-specific install, cos it has >10mb of content and you'll never get it all through the game without something somewhere complaining about it :)
The worlds are distributed all over the place: Biplaneworld, Battlezone and Gyruss are in the UK; Reina Roja, Wings Field and Zoric are in the US; I'm not sure about the others but there's a fair chance one of em's near you, somewhere. The only other thing to say is the usual advice for any game - turn off all other progs while running it; make sure findfast is disabled; and make sure all your drivers are up to date.
In terms of video performance - if that's what you mean by "lag" - well, we've seen the game running on a system with an ancient 2mb ATI card, and in general the game will run on systems as low-end as ~300Mhz with 64Mb RAM. It won't be pretty, and it won't be quick, but it'll probably run. If your system specs are giving you a low framerate, try playing with the graphics options (playing = turning everything off) as discussed in the help pages on this site.
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The worlds are distributed all over the place: Biplaneworld, Battlezone and Gyruss are in the UK; Reina Roja, Wings Field and Zoric are in the US; I'm not sure about the others but there's a fair chance one of em's near you, somewhere. The only other thing to say is the usual advice for any game - turn off all other progs while running it; make sure findfast is disabled; and make sure all your drivers are up to date.
In terms of video performance - if that's what you mean by "lag" - well, we've seen the game running on a system with an ancient 2mb ATI card, and in general the game will run on systems as low-end as ~300Mhz with 64Mb RAM. It won't be pretty, and it won't be quick, but it'll probably run. If your system specs are giving you a low framerate, try playing with the graphics options (playing = turning everything off) as discussed in the help pages on this site.
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another bit that should be mentioned praps is that when you first land on a world with a *lot* of map packets (ie: an older island that players have built all over on), it sometimes takes awhile to absorb all the models into video memory.
or something like that. ugh. why i bother trying to explain these things is...well, i'm not going to bother trying to explain.
or something like that. ugh. why i bother trying to explain these things is...well, i'm not going to bother trying to explain.
I actually downloaded everything successfully, didnt need the installer, well cuz i didnt know about it until afterwards, oh well, i have 3MB Cable Modem, which did help, but yeah for the slower plp out there, the installer is alot better.Fooli wrote:The game is actually pretty efficient in terms of the bandwidth required for the connection, except when you have to download a lot of content - at which point you might struggle to keep a decent ping on some worlds. The majority of the 3d models, sounds and textures you need for Biplaneworld and Battlezone are included in the full game installer. For Reina Roja you'll need to grab the world-specific install, cos it has >10mb of content and you'll never get it all through the game without something somewhere complaining about it
The worlds are distributed all over the place: Biplaneworld, Battlezone and Gyruss are in the UK; Reina Roja, Wings Field and Zoric are in the US; I'm not sure about the others but there's a fair chance one of em's near you, somewhere. The only other thing to say is the usual advice for any game - turn off all other progs while running it; make sure findfast is disabled; and make sure all your drivers are up to date.
In terms of video performance - if that's what you mean by "lag" - well, we've seen the game running on a system with an ancient 2mb ATI card, and in general the game will run on systems as low-end as ~300Mhz with 64Mb RAM. It won't be pretty, and it won't be quick, but it'll probably run. If your system specs are giving you a low framerate, try playing with the graphics options (playing = turning everything off) as discussed in the help pages on this site.
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If you have an Nvidia based car, here are some quick tweaks for yuh
Under Open GL
Turn on V-Sync
always use 16 BPP
make sure that you have Enabled CPU Support for MMX or 3D Now! (if not, turn it off)
Buffer Flipping Mode(Auto-Select)
Under Direct X
Turn Fog Emulation Table off
Use "Best Performance"
if you have 256 MB RAM + use 30+ PCI texture memory, if you have a PCI card, used based on your video cards memory.
Make sure your Pre-Rendering no more then 3 frames ahead
Leave Texel Origin to Center
Performance Graph off
Under DXDIAG
(provided you have an AGP Video Card) make sure AGP Acceleration is enabled
Also try and get a AGP Utility from your Motherboard manufactuer and set the AGP to aatleast 2x for fast performance, i recommend 4x if your computer can handle it.
Under Open GL
Turn on V-Sync
always use 16 BPP
make sure that you have Enabled CPU Support for MMX or 3D Now! (if not, turn it off)
Buffer Flipping Mode(Auto-Select)
Under Direct X
Turn Fog Emulation Table off
Use "Best Performance"
if you have 256 MB RAM + use 30+ PCI texture memory, if you have a PCI card, used based on your video cards memory.
Make sure your Pre-Rendering no more then 3 frames ahead
Leave Texel Origin to Center
Performance Graph off
Under DXDIAG
(provided you have an AGP Video Card) make sure AGP Acceleration is enabled
Also try and get a AGP Utility from your Motherboard manufactuer and set the AGP to aatleast 2x for fast performance, i recommend 4x if your computer can handle it.
