Dear all

[bvark]

Buy a decent PC
Turn your settings down.

Love everyone else.

[Kaution]

+1

[Demonic]

<---- Settings Noob

[Neon]

Use the preset 'Minimum fidelity' and run 1024x768 :)

[K]

I found res made very little difference but a big upgrade is coming for me :)

[winbar]

But what's wrong with playing it with everything on full :p

[Penguin2]

But what's wrong with playing it with everything on full :p

no matter what you're running on it'll start to lag when you get several thousand units running about :P

[bvark]

there is nothing wrong with playing it on highest detail, highest res, on your ****ty PC.

Unless of course it's in a game with me.

[afty]

Max res, min detail.

[Boffykins]

bvark, just as a quickie, is my spec acceptable to you?
AMD 4800+ X2
2Gig DDR400
7900GT
I run at 1280x1024 (or x768 if i'm playing on the telly)

[Semajal]

hmm ill start playing single player tonight, opteron 165, 2 gigs ram, raptor X hd, 7950GX2 and only be like 1280x1024 max.

:)

[bvark]

Boff, I guess that's OK. I think there's an FPS tester somewhere in the game - I guess we should post some comparions.

[Dentist]

I run worse specs than that atm Boff, its fine.

[bvark]

OK - if you start the game with arguments /map Perftest on the end, you will get your SupComMark for your current resolution and detail settings.

I get 17,039 (minimum detail, 1920x1200).

Please do post your scores.

[Kaution]

Ermm that doesnt make sense Bvark? cos lower is better...

Unless the changed the performance test in the latest patch?

[Bonkers]

1600 x 1200 - good detail

64.5

[bvark]

They've changed it in the latest patch... it specifically says "Higher is better".

[Bonkers]

Will do it again then

[Penguin2]

14611 1680x1050, texture / level of detail on highest everything else on lowest

[Dentist]

15619 @ 1600x1200 and 1680x1050 secondary, everything on lowest.

[Demonic]

12950 @ 1280 everything min.

[Boffykins]

10229 - 1280x1024 dual screen high preset

[no friends]

7241 :D

Dual 1280x1024 all on lowest settings
P4 3.4GHz
2GB ram
6800GT

[Boffykins]

Ouch no_friends :(

[FiRe]

1591

1024x768 all high settings apart from no AA and medium shadows
AMD Athlon64 4000+ (2.4GHz, 1 Core)
2Gb RAM DDR-400
6800GT

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3715

1024x768 all medium settings apart from no AA
AMD Athlon64 4000+ (2.4GHz, 1 Core)
2Gb RAM DDR-400
6800GT
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10184

1024x768 all low settings apart from no AA and no shadows
AMD Athlon64 4000+ (2.4GHz, 1 Core)
2Gb RAM DDR-400
6800GT

[Semajal]

OUCH fire :(

I just got the game, will be installing in MERE.

[Kaution]

15252 Everything on low, but at max res :P

[SquireMuldoon]

14113 for 1280x1024.
12440 for 1600x1200.

[andyf]

13,570 - 1600x1200 with low fidelity and no AA
and 15,593 with everything on low, which is nice.

[afty]

13,243 at 1650 x 1080 - low detail though (still looks pretty in low, EVERYONE SHOULD BE PLAYING ON MINIMUM DETAIL to avoid social ostracisation should you be slowing the game down. We WILL detect it is you!)

[no friends]

Okay... You wouldn't think it but, i put a 60Hz OC on my cpu... and now my score is 3000 points better?
10091, no change settings or anything

[K]

I win!! 4001 @ 1920*1200 lowest everything :P
Edit: 8254 @ 1024

[Gunsmith]

16782 at 1920x1200 - Maximum Detail w/ 4xFSAA

[Bonkers]

14335 - 1600 x 1200 medium everything

[Deman]

15635 - 1900x1200 medium all, 4xfsaa

[Dentist]

I win!! 4001 @ 1920*1200 lowest everything :P
Edit: 8254 @ 1024

Jesus, you really do win the special prize!

[Chicane]

15162 @ 1024x768 on dual monitors with everything on low

it does however look like ****e :(

[K]

Jesus, you really do win the special prize!

Yep, but new machine order went in today here's hoping Nvidia release the 8900's in time for i30!

[bvark]

15162 @ 1024x768 on dual monitors with everything on low

it does however look like ****e :(

My strategic map looks fine - you zoom in?

[afty]

You have to Zoom in to control units, place buildings etc? Some of my buildings are < 1 pixel wide and high on strategic maps...
Mouse Wheel on high sensitivity makes it very easy to bounce between zoomed in for precision and zoomed out for control...

And besides, even on minimum everything the game still looks fine... it's a strategy game - it doesn't need coloured lights, surface reflections and other e-penis measurements. Strategy SHOULDNT look nice.

[BugAlugs]

with all on max at 1600 x 1200 - 14654 all on min its 16608

[Lord Grim]

uh
i just ran the test... everyone as low as it goes.. at 1024x768
"Your 'SupComMark' composite score is -4122 (higher is better)"

is that actually negative or do i score 4122 :p
either way, its gash.

running it on a:
XP2500 @ 3200
1Gb RAM DDR 400
GeForce 6800 GT

..i wont be playing anyone online dont worry ! :p

[Chicane]

bvark, zoom out is fine, but zoom in, and the landscape looks naff, but the point of multiplaying is the playing bit rather than single playing, which i'd like to look nice :)

[afty]

bvark, zoom out is fine, but zoom in, and the landscape looks naff, but the point of multiplaying is the playing bit rather than single playing, which i'd like to look nice :)
It's a strategy game. It doesn't need to look nice - in fact it's distracting if it does - most of us use the zoomed out strategic view for 90% of the game anyway - if you're zoomed in all the time you're going to lose heavily.

Furthermore, if having high detail slows your games down a bit then you get to play ALOT less games per night. I've seen games run at 5 seconds PER game-second which is just tedious and a waste of time.

If you're scoring 16000+ SCMarks then fine have some detail level, but for gods sake don't play with us if you play in high detail mode and refuse to turn it down despite crappy SCMark scores.

[__OpenGL__]

15826 1280x1024 Max detail with 8xQ AA
Ill do a low one too...
16584 with fidelity set to low... My eyes are now burning *sets to high*

[BugAlugs]

with all on max at 1600 x 1200 - 14654 all on min its 16608


One CPU upgrade later its now

Max 16066
Min 17132

@1600x1200

[vivaladan]

1920x1200 and max everything. 8xAA. And you know what? Makes f**k all difference from if i had everything on low. The reason for this? Unlike all modern games, SupCom is more processor intensive. Logic is to offload as much processing onto the graphics card as poss due to how powerful it is is comparison to the cpu and this is what games do. Except for SupCom keeping track of all these units. Furthermore it's P2P which has it's own overhead.

Basically you need atleast 2gig of RAM (seeing as it can sometimes use that AND all your virtual memory) and a high end Core 2 Duo/Quadro processor for it to run flawlessly. I can set my graphics however i want but it makes a blind bit of difference when it's my FX-60 thats the bottleneck.

Example? My housemate OptimAdam has a Core 2 Duo X6800 and a X1800 XT. I have an FX-60 and a 8800 GTX. I thrash his performance at every game but SupCom. Enough said really :P

[CyberDrac]

That's really quite a scary game when an FX60 is considered a bottleneck ... eek.

CD

[BugAlugs]

there is also the vista lag effect :'( Thanks to what appears to be Nvidia daftness

[Deman]

I think you'll find when playing a 2v2 and everyone is using shields all over their bases, nukes being set off left and right with experimentals you'll be thankful for people having their graphics settings on low as contrary to popular belief it does make a difference, a ****ing big one.

Granted processor does the majority of the donkey work, rendering on main core, rest on 2nd(spread across other 3) but gfx card does take a big part.

Don't believe me? compare Mine and Bvarks scores on same settings, he has Gefore 8800, I have 7950 in SLi(it dont use SLi). He has Duo Core 2 6600 I have x6800. Yet he outscores me.

[Blood Sport]

i love supcom but i'm lucky to get a game without a crash

[bvark]

17,059 with new drivers (so not a big difference).

ren_bloom off takes it to 17,085

[K]

16060 @ 2560 * 1600 Max all
17519 @ 2560 * 1600 Min all

[andyf]

2560 * 1600? Did someone get a new rig and monitor? :D:D

[Deman]

I sense many e-peenises on show at stratlan.

Sadly it will not make up for lack of skills :)

[BugAlugs]

BRING it K.. just BRING it