I Wish This Game Ran Better Than It Does

[Missouri_Rebel]

The title says it all. Although I do Like PC:O, it lags terribly on my machine whereas CMN runs great even considering more 'advanced' graphics. It really is a put off for me and one thing that I hope gets looked at.

[junk2drive]

What settings are you using for PCO?

I have seen people post the opposite so I think it is hardware specific.

[phantom67]

Try turning off the grass. It gave me a huge FPS increase, although I admit it shouldn't be necessary considering I just bought a brand spanking new i7-2600k with 8GB DDR3 1600 RAM running with my slightly aged 4870X2 -_-

[Missouri_Rebel]

I am using these settings. CBN runs really good even on the higher settings for me. I thought I would be unable to play it yet it is Ostfront that gets the least time because of the framerate issues.

[junk2drive]

That's the strange thing. Some people with older modest rigs are happy with what they see and people with top end rigs are disappointed. PCO is not going to look like ARMA or some other FPS or TOW.

I have a single core 2.7 with 2gig of shared ram and loading, processing, mouse movement, are all fine.

[junk2drive]

Try turning off AA and AF.

[Missouri_Rebel]

Turned them off, didn't really help. It's a shame really.


Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53 GHz
6 gigs ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
Win 7 64 bit

It's an older laptop. All current drivers.
mo reb

[phantom67]

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

That's the strange thing. Some people with older modest rigs are happy with what they see and people with top end rigs are disappointed. PCO is not going to look like ARMA or some other FPS or TOW.

I have a single core 2.7 with 2gig of shared ram and loading, processing, mouse movement, are all fine.

Its not that we're disappointed in the graphics, we're disappointed in the performance GIVEN the graphics.

[Missouri_Rebel]

+1 ^^^^ I don't mind the graphics at all and think most are very good actually.

[junk2drive]

I'm not sure what performance means. If the animations are smooth and the mouse actions are smooth and I am getting 20 FPS am I disappointed?

[Missouri_Rebel]

I really don't understand your question.  I am trying to tell you that in fact the animations are not smooth and the scrolling/panning is very jerky. I only compare to CMN because I bought both games the same week and are similar products.

mo reb

[junk2drive]

That's what I'm trying to say, my system is lower end than yours and runs smooth. Plus you have dual cores which are used by PCO but not CMBN.

I do remember someone posting about either CMBN or PCO that they had all the difference in the world by trying a different screen resolution. They just got lucky I guess.

[phantom67]

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

I'm not sure what performance means. If the animations are smooth and the mouse actions are smooth and I am getting 20 FPS am I disappointed?

Problem is, I'm not even getting smooth animations or mouse movement when I have the grass on.

[Yoozername]

I gave up trying to run PCO on a WIN XP machine.  It runs fine on a WIN7 laptop.  I run CMBN on the XP machine and it looks much better than the WIN7 laptop.  Go figure.

[FNG]

I switched from wide to normal and that helped boost the FPS for me.

[JMass]

ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel
Turned them off, didn't really help. It's a shame really.

Try Display Shadows OFF, Display Weather OFF, Limit Infantry ON.

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

I am using these settings. CBN runs really good even on the higher settings for me. I thought I would be unable to play it yet it is Ostfront that gets the least time because of the framerate issues.

Could you also post a DxDiag for us please?

What in-game options do you have turned on? What kind of processor do you have, as PCO is mainly CPU-bound.

Regards,

- Erik

[junk2drive]

ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel

Turned them off, didn't really help. It's a shame really.


Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53 GHz
6 gigs ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
Win 7 64 bit

It's an older laptop. All current drivers.
mo reb

[pinwolf]

Try it out with no gras or low detail quality.

[Missouri_Rebel]

Well I'm gonna keep trying as I do love the game and think the extra effort is worth it.

How does one do a DxDiag?

I know just enough to mess things up.

Thanks,
Mo Reb