I believe you can safely set the priority to high without any adverse effects, I do this regularly. Can this be confirmed?
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I believe you can safely set the priority to high without any adverse effects, I do this regularly. Can this be confirmed?
High should be okay, be you can also set it to max or something and that will seriously mess up your machine as it will get priority over system processes with potentially disastrous results.
Off Topic, I just wanted to put this out there.
For a future PBeM, I think it would be cool to do a WotS style PBeM using BI (with goth's mod if you like :2thumbsup: ) and Mydraal's multiplayer script. I thought we could have two different senates, one for the Eastern Empire and one for the Western Empire. I know that Mydraal's script is not flawless. If the west attacked the east whoever was attacking would have a huge advantage, since the Defender would be controlled by the AI. So maybe you could record what units were in each army, then arrange for a multiplayer battle between the Generals involved? Then you could use the consol (I think) to auto determine the outcome of the battle. The casualties would not be the same, but the a victory is a victory. I know we don't have room for this now, nor do I want to host it, I just want to write it down in here in case someone else is interested in hosting it.
I believe autoresolves are the thing when playing human V human.
There's also the Romano-British KA style one in the throne room.
I.O.U. (the will of the senate PBeM) – 1 x battle report.
First day of University lasted until 18:30hrs and needless to say that after I’d got home, eaten, showered etc I was in no mind to sit and write a report on my latest stunning victory.
(solving problems using the Bernoulli equation is a real pain in the……:furious3: .)
I will try to do this tomorrow now. Can’t guarantee I’ll be in the relevant frame of mind tonight either but if there’s a battle to be had…….well, kill’n stuff is a different matter……
My priority options are Normal, Above Average, High, and Real Time. O.o
If someone can guarantee me that High won't destroy my comp via horrid instability, I'll do it. I wish I knew before I bought the dual core laptop that Rome didn't run well on a dualy, but, on the upside, Medieval 2 is supposed to run great on duals right?
Yes, from what I've read it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
Lucky you ! :2thumbsup:
:balloon2:
Oh? What have you guys heard about this exactly? That's awesome if it's true. And Rome runs fine on dual core, no worries, you just have to set the affinity as mentioned. As far as High priority, as I said that's how I've been running all my games and no problems that I know of. I've seen many other people on the boards do the same. EB even comes standard with a shortcut that automatically sets it at High priority.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
For the second time in a row I'm having trouble uploading my pictures to imageshack.us
It always seems to accept my first screenshot, but then basically gives a vague reason for not allowing my other shots. It seems to think my ''file format'' is not supported, which is strange since BMP is supported by imageshack and all the files are 1.400 Kb max. Which is smaller than 1.5 MB. So, I can upload some images, and others imageshack just doesn't host. At random.
Does anyone have a clue as to what is causing this - very irritating - problem ?
The story is here, the only thing that needs to be done concerning the battle report is adding the screenshots.
:balloon2:
Why don't you covert them to jpeg? Much smaller files, faster load times for everyone who'll be viewing them, faster upload for you, and not too much image degradation. I've never had a problem uploading jpeg on imageshack.
*edit*
Muahahaha!
Dutch_guy, you could try uploading your screenshots as jpg - I think that's more compact format and so it might upload better (I save my tga's as jpg in Irfanview).
EDIT: Wonderland beat me to it!
Well, I managed to upload all but one picture in my post - I if all goes well, the post 'll be up soon.
Thanks for all the suggestions, and I'll be sure to convert them all to jpegs in the future. Come to think of it, this is the first time I've used the BMP format - and probably the last, as jpegs have given me a way less problems.
One last question, Is there a way to convert a whole batch of bpm's to jpegs in one move, could one use Irfanview for such a thing ? I'm asking because It would save me some time, plus I already have Irfanview installed on my pc.
Thanks again
:balloon2:
I guess I should check this out. I'm interested in seeing if Rome will actually run well on a single 1.8 turion core. O.o
EDIT - Geez..I'm starting to get sorely disappointed with this laptop. I've managed to cut my start up process down to 35, but I'd like to get it down to the same as my pc, 20. And No matter what I do, only one cpu and on high priority and what not, I can't seem to manage to get Rome to run nicely. It works just fine, until I try to zoom in, then it gets glitchy, slow and difficult to control. I was under the impression that this would be a good gaming laptop. It has a heck of a lot of ram, the same quality video card as my pc, and the dual core 1.8's, which, to my understanding, was equivilant to a 3.6 single processor, which is .8 better than my 2.8 on the cpu. But, no matter what I do, the cpu runs the game sooo much better.
Grrr..somebody help me get this goofy laptop to work well, I mean heck, it's a brand new machine and it can't run a, what, 6 year old game well? That's ridiculous.
Darn-it! now I.O.U.......TWO battle reports!
Lucjan, are you comparing a laptop against a tower/desk system?
Laptop powersaving software often make them perform below what they should be - its a trade off between portability and battery life mate. :embarassed:
I have the damned thing plugged into the wall right now, and it still glitches out and runs like crap when I zoom in.
Though I've never used it, I know Irfanview has a Batch Conversion option (look under the File menu). You may check that out. I know Photoshop can do this sort of thing, but that probably won't help you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
All I want it to do is make use of the components it says it has. :furious3: The correct way, and run nicely, otherwise I would have been better off buying a dirt cheap laptop and upgrading the motherboard and processor on my tower at home.
Lucjan,
You could try the power management software http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/ not sure if it has a version for your processor but its worth a try.
I’m asking a tech friend about the laptop for other suggestions.
Do NOT run it on Real Time unless you like to see your laptop commit hara-kiri. Run it on high. Laptops are handy things, but they will always suck at games that require heavy image processing. You might try turning down the visuals or lowering your refresh rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucjan
Just had a conflab with my mate in IT and he said:
“Ahh Shared memory bad….. Essentially instead of the card having access to its own dimms it uses the standard on board memory. So the cpu sends out instructions to the gfx card to draw some gfx, the gfx card then allocates itself some memory from the standard system memory to store its information. Now the cpu will be also loading the system memory with its own data. What do you think would happen on applications or games that become a little demanding on data?”
So, basically NOT what I thought at first. This does mean that the Graphics on that Laptop are…..*cough* sorry to say…..pretty poor. As your running XP ECE then this will hog a good chunk of graphic RAM meaning you’ve perhaps…..if you’re lucky got about 32 or so left for the Games.
Which would explain why its “choppy”.
Sorry..:no:
To be honest I’m not a big fan of Laptops but the have their place but the one I’ve got (but don’t use for games) has a dedicated Graphics card rather than just a chip-set which is what your’s has.
Then again, it did cost me near £2k GBP which will be like $4k USD!....and I STILL don’t use it for games!
This is why I never bothered with laptops before...but now I know at least I have a very fancy looking, very expensive music/dvd playing machine that can go online anywhere and play some of the still fun but older and outdated games...Knights of Honor, Europa Universalis anyone? lol
Ah, thanks for pointing that out Tamur!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tamur
:balloon2:
OOOOOHHH OOH OH OOOH OOH!
I think I may have found an incredible and silly solution to my whole problem. I don't understand why this would have such a horrendous effect on the fps of the game but lets see if it works...
EDIT -
IT WORKS IT WORKS!
Ok, I don't know why this had such an enormous effect on the game, but grass. It was the grass. (I never play with character shadows, they bother me, so that had nothing to do with it) The moment I set grass to "none", the game ran beautifully. I actually had the game running better on the laptop than it does on my pc! And solely by turning off the grass. That's so weird.
Edit 2 - Now I need to figure out why my pc will run oblivion and the laptop won't. What stupid, silly, miniscule thing do I need to turn off in oblivion. *Runs off on another sidequest*.
Quit whining about your laptops. My wifes (work) laptop is a P2 600Mhz machine! It can barely run Panzer General 2!!! I tried STW, but even on lowest settings I only got a few FPS ~:( Shame, cos it would be conventient to be able to play STW any time anywhere ~:)
But I'm not whining anymore, now I'm rejoicing. :2thumbsup:
My GOD!
I have some incredible news for everybody. The Medieval 2 demo alone has from this moment on consumed my soul.
I'm running a 2.8gig single cell pentium 4, 2 gigs of ram and a 256mb ati x1300 pro, with the following settings.
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...go/hadto-1.jpg
Can you count all those "Highest"s? I can't even do that with ROME!
Just, just look at these screenshots from my battles! *Squeels in glee.*
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...weetindeed.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5.../heavytoll.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...spikefield.jpg
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a5...einthehole.jpg
Unforetunatly they're both scripted scenarios with triggers, so I can't provide very much info about the ai, but the demo is incredible, I can't wait for the game.
Now, I haven’t been that impressed with the screenshots on the main thread but your’s are sweeeettttt!!!!
Just goes to show doesn’t it.
BTW – favourite bit, apart from the glints on the armour is BLOOD!! There’s blood! Finally.
Hey and its good to know these settings are achievable on that PC as the one I've got earmarked for Christmas is:
AMD64 3800+
2gig RAM
and a Radeon x1600 Pro 256Mb card.
- all for £397.00 :2thumbsup:
Nice screenies!
Blood and progressively dirtier men during the fight; I didn't think it'd make much difference (I'm not much of a blood-for-blood's-sake sort of player), but it's absolutely great to see the variation this gives to a unit plus you're able to see just how beat up your unit is instead of guessing.
Yes, I was pleasantly surprised by the M2TW demo - it's streets ahead of those for RTW or for BI.
Lucjan: how are we doing in terms of the timing of the mid-term session? I'd like to get it all wrapped up in a week's time as I'm out of the country from 20th Oct. to 6th Nov.
Lucjan is, I believe, waiting on me I'm sorry to say.
He's passed me a save (with 2 battles on it) to play through but its my wife's birthday today so I'm pretty sure I won't be able to complete them tonight.
(she'll what to do stuff "together" or some other "girly" options)
There's been SO many battles this session!