Uriziel
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If any of you are wondering if G3 would play any better on a "dream" machine, I can assure you it does'nt.
At my work we have access to some stuff you'll never likely use in the foreseeable future. We decided to test G3 on one of the machines that I'll briefly outline.
This particular PC has an AMD FX-74 3ghz CPU, 10GB RAM drive, 4GB of PC2 8500 system memory, and an Nvidia 7950 GTX. All of that you can buy, well almost. You'd better have DEEP pockets to find and buy the 10GB RAM drive. The ASUS mobo you simply can't buy yet, and never will be able to buy the configuration of the board we tested. Anyway.....
We toy'd with different settings for a day and still had terrible performance......terrible for a machine like this in particular. There seems to be a problem in the game engine itself. Keep in mind that the OS is installed in memory, the application(G3) is installed in memory. (BTW, the OS is a highly modified version of XP, similar in concept to TinyXP you can download.) As the game loads textures into memory, the engine seems to lose the location and reloads the texture again later. In theory with that much memory the game should be able to load all the textures into memory for instant access. Not so with G3's engine. A couple of co-workers are looking at the engine over the next few days and so we will know more. Also we are going to set up a duplicate machine using an ATI card and test it.
Now the funny part. Do you know I get PAID to do this LMAO. My boss loves the Gothic series(I wonder WHO got him playing it ) and wants us to fix what we can playability wise until PB patches things up
At my work we have access to some stuff you'll never likely use in the foreseeable future. We decided to test G3 on one of the machines that I'll briefly outline.
This particular PC has an AMD FX-74 3ghz CPU, 10GB RAM drive, 4GB of PC2 8500 system memory, and an Nvidia 7950 GTX. All of that you can buy, well almost. You'd better have DEEP pockets to find and buy the 10GB RAM drive. The ASUS mobo you simply can't buy yet, and never will be able to buy the configuration of the board we tested. Anyway.....
We toy'd with different settings for a day and still had terrible performance......terrible for a machine like this in particular. There seems to be a problem in the game engine itself. Keep in mind that the OS is installed in memory, the application(G3) is installed in memory. (BTW, the OS is a highly modified version of XP, similar in concept to TinyXP you can download.) As the game loads textures into memory, the engine seems to lose the location and reloads the texture again later. In theory with that much memory the game should be able to load all the textures into memory for instant access. Not so with G3's engine. A couple of co-workers are looking at the engine over the next few days and so we will know more. Also we are going to set up a duplicate machine using an ATI card and test it.
Now the funny part. Do you know I get PAID to do this LMAO. My boss loves the Gothic series(I wonder WHO got him playing it ) and wants us to fix what we can playability wise until PB patches things up
- Joined
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