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Since 1.4, Has Its Requirements Gone Higher?

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Offline Snow

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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2007, 02:47:36 pm »
I'd say it would be best to have a newer system to run Soldat. From what I see the average processor speed nowadays is 2.0GHz and above. Depending on where you are (I'm in Canada) you can pick up a decent used/refurbished system for $100 which will have enough speed and ram to runs Soldat smoothly. As for video, a lot of newer systems also have up to 128MB or more onboard integrated video. On my older Celeron 366 system, I used to run 1.2.1 just fine on 8MB on the 810 intel integrated.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2007, 03:04:57 pm »
Quote from: Michal Marcinkowski on October 09, 2007, 05:28:24 am
It is getting heavier for 2 reasons. First is the custom maps are really graphically intensive, that's not my fault. Second is the font rendering change in 1.4, it's a bit slower. But hey the world progresses. Does anybody still play Soldat with a machine before 2002?

What ever happened in previous versions maps were only made by you.  Since you made this game, you'd understand mapmaking the best.  I don't like most of the custom maps.

Plenty of people here still use old computers.  I have graphical problems with the minimap and with transparent polygons.  I can't do anything about it but I just live with it.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2007, 11:36:00 pm »
Quote from: El_Spec on October 07, 2007, 06:07:41 pm
Quote from: Poop on October 07, 2007, 05:07:05 pm
Actually, I dont think its soldat but rather these 1000 polygon maps and 500 scenery maps that are causing framerate to lower massively.

On old maps like Viet/Kampf/Laos I get 75 FPS, on Trenchwar maps or the current B2b I get 55-60 FPS.

I think its the complete opposite.  For the original default maps, they tend to run fast and I can play with a decent amount of players.  For high quality maps that have a lot of details, run extremely slow.

El_Spec, that is exactly what I said. Make sure to read other people's posts before you reply to them...
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #23 on: October 13, 2007, 01:22:53 am »
Quote from: InuYasha on October 09, 2007, 05:30:32 am
me! my computer is from 1992 its really old and has been upgraded a number of times
Forgot the specs
412mhz
10gig hard drive
129mb ram
16mb graphics
windows xp pro
I dont know the make or model cause it lost its logo on its tower case and the model sticker on the top of the case.

My brand new laptop

Make/model: acer aspire 4720G 
3.6ghz
3gig ram
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G with up to 1 GB of TurboCache (128 MB of dedicated GDDR2 VRAM)
60gig hard drive
windows xp home
(that laptop cost me $2300 nz dollars)
This is my school research computer so i dont play soldat on it
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #24 on: October 13, 2007, 07:04:43 am »
Quote from: Poop on October 12, 2007, 11:36:00 pm
Quote from: El_Spec on October 07, 2007, 06:07:41 pm
Quote from: Poop on October 07, 2007, 05:07:05 pm
Actually, I dont think its soldat but rather these 1000 polygon maps and 500 scenery maps that are causing framerate to lower massively.

On old maps like Viet/Kampf/Laos I get 75 FPS, on Trenchwar maps or the current B2b I get 55-60 FPS.

I think its the complete opposite.  For the original default maps, they tend to run fast and I can play with a decent amount of players.  For high quality maps that have a lot of details, run extremely slow.

El_Spec, that is exactly what I said. Make sure to read other people's posts before you reply to them...
Yeah, look who's talking.

I have a computer from 2001 and a laptop that cannot run soldat (winME) I avoid gaming on them like the plague.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2007, 09:15:49 am »
I guess was in a hurry, so I didn't have time to read your post properly.

I don't really think it is map's fault.  I agree with what Flies said about Soldat possibly having some kind of bug in it which causes it to slow down in certain situations.  Whenever I'm in a server and when there is all the players in one screen range, Soldat would most likely crash.  We're running ctf_Kampf and its a map with low details.

Also with the new features like font shadows and bullets losing power after a certain range tends to slow down the game because it makes your PC work harder to power all of this.  In older versions, they didn't have these features and it ran 4x faster.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2007, 11:12:50 am »
Quote from: El_Spec on October 13, 2007, 09:15:49 am
In older versions, they didn't have these features and it ran 4x faster.
Not true. On 1.2 my fps on soldat was 65 and on 1.4.2 its now 15 to 35fps so on soldat versions its 2x faster.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #27 on: October 13, 2007, 11:39:53 am »
Quote from: InuYasha on October 13, 2007, 11:12:50 am
Quote from: El_Spec on October 13, 2007, 09:15:49 am
In older versions, they didn't have these features and it ran 4x faster.
Not true. On 1.2 my fps on soldat was 65 and on 1.4.2 its now 15 to 35fps so on soldat versions its 2x faster.
BECAUSE YOUR COMPUTER IS THE END ALL OF TESTING FPS

(my fps stayed the same :) still capped off by the monitor in the 60's)
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2007, 11:49:05 am »
Quote from: a-4-year-old on October 13, 2007, 11:39:53 am
Quote from: InuYasha on October 13, 2007, 11:12:50 am
Quote from: El_Spec on October 13, 2007, 09:15:49 am
In older versions, they didn't have these features and it ran 4x faster.
Not true. On 1.2 my fps on soldat was 65 and on 1.4.2 its now 15 to 35fps so on soldat versions its 2x faster.
BECAUSE YOUR COMPUTER IS THE END ALL OF TESTING FPS

(my fps stayed the same :) still capped off by the monitor in the 60's)
Maybe my desktop is crap but when i tried to run soldat on my laptop i get a good 90 to 100fps
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #29 on: October 15, 2007, 02:33:17 pm »
I dont notice anything. If anything it works better now. Then again I had dial up during the 1.3.1 era and now I have DSL.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #30 on: October 17, 2007, 02:07:30 pm »
Maybe try defraggging your computer guys...yes, my FPS has gone down...but maybe defragging can help it a bit...

It did wonders last time I had ping problems.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #31 on: October 17, 2007, 02:30:54 pm »
I've already tried defragging my hard-drive.  It doesn't help that much.  Its not much of a problem with our computers, its Soldat as we've been discussing is getting higher and is making it harder for our PCs to power it.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #32 on: October 18, 2007, 10:02:23 pm »
Quote from: JonWood007 on October 15, 2007, 02:33:17 pm
I dont notice anything. If anything it works better now. Then again I had dial up during the 1.3.1 era and now I have DSL.
That doesn't affect your FPS, it makes your pings (generally) lower.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #33 on: October 18, 2007, 11:33:55 pm »
I'm on a 6 year old HP Pavillion with SDR ram, yea I said it SDR ram lol, and a onboard chip set. My computer is garbage, Soldat is probably the only game I'm capable of running. Is it slower than when I used to play? I'm not too sure about that. Maybe, but I know I'm still capable of playing it. I don't think you guys should have too much problems with it on your systems.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #34 on: October 18, 2007, 11:59:22 pm »
I think they are somewhat higher
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #35 on: October 19, 2007, 12:30:38 am »
Quote from: Got Nicks? on October 18, 2007, 11:33:55 pm
I'm on a 6 year old HP Pavillion with SDR ram, yea I said it SDR ram lol, and a onboard chip set. My computer is garbage, Soldat is probably the only game I'm capable of running. Is it slower than when I used to play? I'm not too sure about that. Maybe, but I know I'm still capable of playing it. I don't think you guys should have too much problems with it on your systems.
Im running on a 14 year old computer and i'm still able to play soldat.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #36 on: October 19, 2007, 01:00:35 am »
Thats what I'm saying! Like I said, it's like the only game that I can play... Not that I mind though, for something so simple it's a great game, no denying.
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #37 on: October 19, 2007, 01:08:06 am »
Whoops I was suppose to say I have a 14 year old computer that is even better that your 6 year old HP. (3gig DDR Ram.) I got it upgraded 6 times in the past 2 years. 
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #38 on: October 19, 2007, 02:59:05 am »
Well I had a pretty good computer but I sold it to bail a friend out, been stuck with this crap box ever since. Sucks...
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Re: Soldat's System Requirements Are Getting Higher
« Reply #39 on: October 19, 2007, 02:03:43 pm »
Lol, like it's important..
If there is going to be a giant change to Soldat i hope it are the graphics.
If you can't run Soldat you probably can't open IE/FF and MSN Messenger at the same time.
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