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Thoughts on the station from a person with a PoS graphic card.

Sep 27, 2003 Urza link
It's cool. really nice. I get around 10 FPS when looking at it, which was about my normal rate when looking at big spinny stuff. I'm fine untill i'm buzzing around in it. My framerate drops to 4 and i cant do shi*. looks like i'll be avoiding 9. But otehr than that, great job devs.
Sep 27, 2003 Urza link
Also..

Stuff justs.. pops out at me. I'll get like 50 meters away, and the wheel will just suddenly apper.. odd.

And the first time i entered 9.. took forever to load.
Sep 27, 2003 roguelazer link
The poppign the the LOD. The lod is all messed up. I'll be 20km away and have a green blob as the station. I'll zoom in, and it'll come sort of in focus. Then the wheel will lose polys like rats off a sinking ship. Then there'll be too many polys... And this is on 1/1 too...
Sep 27, 2003 Jm262 link
that sucks, you guys should get better computers.

:p

Anyway just to let ya know i do have things pop up sorta on my screen. For instance the one thing i noticed was on the top of the station the satelite dish, from about 50m's away it was sort of squarish, then when you get really close to it, it would turn back to the way a satelite would look. Otherwise it worked fine for me.
Sep 27, 2003 Niki link
I get around 10 fps when i'm looking at the new station and i can't fight when i'm looking at it. when i'm looking at other things like the old stations or spinning roids i get around 20-60 fps and everything works fine. I have set all settings to low. I have a old iMac 350MHz with an ATY Rage128VR 8MB graphic card.
Sep 27, 2003 Phoenix_I link
I get around 30 fps when i'm flying normally, and i get about 25 fps looking at the station and about 20 flying around it, everything runs smoothly for me. Plus I heard someone say theres a bug in the mac version that all the textures load twice which makes the fps suck. :(
Sep 27, 2003 Urza link
teh textures are funny!! i'll be like 50m from the things with all the lighting that look like office buildings, then move 1 m, and the lights go out (texture goes away). move another meter, the texure comes back and the lights go on.

and if said texute bug is real.. sweet! when that's fixed, it will own
Sep 27, 2003 mcnut link
there seems to be a texture bug in all versions.. but, this will pass.