Lag

[FuLLxCLiP]

i gave a pentium 4 but now pwople are saying lag will be a problem but they said officially that u wouldnt need that much power

what are the REAL neccesities

[Navaron]

You ever play BF1942 on a 64 player server? Like that. Whatever you want to run that as well as possible.

[afex]

well there's a difference between frame lag and connection lag.

as far as "power" like you are talking about, the min reqs are a 1Ghz processor, at least a geforce 2 with 64mb ram, and 512mb of system ram. they are trying to lower these as well. with alot of people on the screen, it may be useful to have a beefier machine so your framerate doesn't go to shit, but you can always turn the quality down if you need to.

as for connection lag, all i can say is that i pity the dialup-ers. i have no doubt that sony can bring the phat pipe, but you'll need broadband to use it effectively

[mistled]

I just hope that everything is setup well enough so that even if my cable connection is running slow today, I can still get a decent connection.

... or Cox could get their crap together and keep the area's connections working right... ugh....

[The Eternal]

I wouldn't worry about lag, they wouldn't have made the game if they didn't think they could fix lag problem, cause they can't sell a laggy game

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by afex
well there's a difference between frame lag and connection lag.

as far as "power" like you are talking about, the min reqs are a 1Ghz processor, at least a geforce 2 with 64mb ram, and 512mb of system ram. they are trying to lower these as well. with alot of people on the screen, it may be useful to have a beefier machine so your framerate doesn't go to shit, but you can always turn the quality down if you need to.

as for connection lag, all i can say is that i pity the dialup-ers. i have no doubt that sony can bring the phat pipe, but you'll need broadband to use it effectively

"Power" lag as its been referred to in the past is usually referred to as "Drag" (Terms differ). "Lag" (Conn lagg) is usually called "LAg" or latency to be more specific. Thought i'd add the tid-bit for clarification

[Mazelmavin]

The problem isn't going to be latency.

The problem will be frame rate. But not from video.

BF1942 has a similiar problem. Many people (including me) with supped machines have experienced frame rate issues. These people had low pings. When the game is played with no sound, frame rate never drops. So, its not a video issue.

The problem is (and might be) sound. There are dozens of people around you. All of them will be doing something to make sound. Shooting, driving, walking, idle engines, etc... And our poor computers have to process all of this, and often have troubles (even the 2ghz). The problem can be fixed be lowering sound quality, but this is not the first thing people think about. Connection, video, who thinks of sound as a source of frame rate problems?

I am hoping EA made mistakes in their code. Mistakes SOE won't make.

[Sputty]

That's why updating the drivers for your sound card and having a decent sound card will fix that. Those problems ere fixed a day after the release. Also set the sound channels down and take off EAX for sure unless you ahve a really really good sound card. Just get a SB Live and you'll be fine. They're cheap too.

[Yogi]

Originally posted by The Eternal
I wouldn't worry about lag, they wouldn't have made the game if they didn't think they could fix lag problem, cause they can't sell a laggy game

WWII Online

[Mazelmavin]

I fixed the problem long ago.
My point is that it is not obvious what the problem is.
Also, I suspect (hope?) that their coding may be faulty.

BTW, I have a Augiby 2 and still have issues with high quality sound.

[Sputty]

Processor may then be the problem. Heh, also, BF1942 was probably released with some really annoying things. Start typing a message and then you realise you need to do something so you press Esc...Nothing happens so you have to press backspace until the message is gone then press enter...I mean, come on, that's jsut sad.

[Hamma]

Having played BF1942 and PS - PS ran much better.

IMO BF1942 has horrible netcode. :\

[NapalmEnima]

Originally posted by Hamma
Having played BF1942 and PS - PS ran much better.

CAN AH GIT AN AMEN!!!

Heh.

And EAX is a huge CPU hog. I've got a Hefty System, and games that otherwise run smoothly can get chunky with EAX turned on. Dungeon Siege springs to mind.

[Alucard]

hey hamma... what are your comp specs?

[Hamma]

P4 2.8/1GB DDR RAM/GF4 Ti4600/ASUS P4PE