Oolite Bulletins

I'm going to shortly be replacing my aging Dell laptop with ...ta da... a newer Dell laptop! :

I've been writing and playing Oolite on an old P3 900 Mhz Latitude x200 with integrated graphics, 640Mb of RAM, 1024x768 display and the experience has been less than stellar.

The powers that be have deemed it appropriate for me to have a new (er) one that can handle HD video editing etc...

So a shiny Dell Inspiron 1720 with a 17" 1920x1200 NVidia 8600M GT graphics thingy and a T7500 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 thingy with 4GB RAM will soon be here. No idea what most of that means, but I'm hoping I should notice a bit of a difference when playing the game.

Doubt it will speed up my writing though...

Cheers,

Drew.

Drew, brace yourself for impact when playing the game with that rig. It looks like gaming laptop spec level. Make sure you set Shaders to full and...enjoy!

But try to set aside some time for writing too, ok?

Oh Yeah!
I couldn`t get shaders and my laptop slowed down when trying all your adds here so I upgraded mine recently to less specifications and can now enjoy all the bells and whistles.

Enjoy! it`s great fun.

now if only real life would let me spend more time playing oh well it can be still be fun lurking on these boards.

congrats drew... Hope you do not run into unforseen problems with that rig

btw does this look familiar.... i was shocked when i found it

Looks like a transparent planet!

You weren't following an Imperial Courier were you?

Cheers,

Drew.

ps. Laptop - looked at an XPS, but it was 'too flashy' (can't bear flashing leds and all that silliness) so the Inspiron appeared to be the 'sensible shoes' version, with the same sort of power!

Hi Drew,

we use Gaming XPS laptops and top-end Inspiron's at work. A 3-month old Inspiron is as good as our gaming XPS lappy from 18-months ago - minus as you say, all the silly, battery draining, LED stufF!

Can report an easy 60 fps at 1920x1200 with shaders set to full power

Much better than 15 fps at 640x480 with detail set to minimum - I can see what all the fuss was about now!

Cheers,

Drew.

That's what I get, too.

Did you go for the Inspiron in the end Drew?

drew wrote:

Can report an easy 60 fps at 1920x1200 with shaders set to full power

Much better than 15 fps at 640x480 with detail set to minimum - I can see what all the fuss was about now!

Cheers,

Drew.

So I suppose you can even play Cataclysm now!

Is 60 fps a framerate cap in Oolite? Cause my CPU shrugs off 60 at 1920x1200 on max performance, and never goes higher in fullscreen (~90-100 in a small window)

is your graphics card set to Vsync on? i.e. the rate the of putting images on the screen will be no higher than the refresh rate of your screen - it avoids tearing (if done properly). My 3D Terrain viewer at work runs at 75fps with Vsync On, which is the refresh rate of the LCD (75Hz), but 325fps with it off!

I am getting 60 FPS in full-screen as well, but have always got 100 FPS in windowed (although with all the shader-heavy stuff this has tended to sink to an average 50 FPS these days...).

I've noticed quite a few modern FPS shooters have a max fps figure set - so perhaps Oolite is joining the trend - but if not it'd be worth checking the setting of Vsync on/off , I think for nVidia its defaulted to ON or "Application picks"

As of v1.72, Oolite on Windows/Linux explicitly sets Vsync to on, if supported by the graphics card drivers.