Blastburn94 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 I decided to install this game onto my laptop because the minimum system requirements were low enough, but it seems that the actual performance needed to run the game is much higher than even the stated recommended. I set every setting to the absolute lowest in-game, along with disabling V-Sync, and my FPS at the main menu averages at 36 - with a 720x480 resolution (the minimum I can choose). Keep in mind that my laptop is plugged in and has absolutely nothing running in the background. My graphics card driver's settings are also set to their lowest in hopes to increase FPS. All of my drivers are up to date. When I change just my resolution to my native default of 1920x1200, my FPS averages at 9. I understand that this is a giant increase in resolution (roughly 6.67 times the amount of pixels), but I don't have any other game that drops it's FPS a whole 75%. Just for reference, the game's minimum specifications are: Fobby[GEN]":29jvy5jd]Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista2.0+ GHz processor 2 GB system RAM SM3-compatible video card 4 GB free hard drive space The game's recommended system specifications are: Fobby[GEN]":29jvy5jd]Windows Vista 64 SP22.0+ GHz multi-core processor 4 GB system RAM NVIDIA 200 series or higher graphics card Plenty of HDD space My system specifications are: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2 GHz RAM: 2x2 GB DDR2 333 MHz GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB VRAM, 475 MHz Core, 950 MHz Shader, 800 MHz Memory, 128-bit, SM4, DX10) HDD: 120 GB, SATA I, 5400 RPM, 8 MB Cache (64 GB Free) Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200, 60 Hz, 32 bpp Average Idle Usage: <1% CPU Usage, <10 KBps HDD Usage, <25% RAM Usage, <35 Processes Running As you can see, I surpass all of the minimum system requirements, and all of the recommended requirements are met or surpassed, except for the graphics card. This is very confusing to me, given this data. If anyone could give me some assistance as to increasing my FPS or any other meaningful advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff kenz3001 Posted February 28, 2014 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted February 28, 2014 well by all accounts in any game if you up the res the FPS will go down as there are more pixels to render ether lower the res or lower your settings to the lowest setting Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT only just meets the minimum specs and dose not come close to the rec specs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legitsu Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 you have a 8600M with 256Mb of vram @ 1080p the game will use 350 to 500MB of vram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtycopgangsta Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 You're running 1920x1200 on a 8600 GT. You're lucky if the card doesn't catch on fire running this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rmag37 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Yeah OP's machine is kinda... uhh... old. But i've also found that the game performs much worse than the minimum/recc specs imply. You guys should consider bumping them up a little. I personally think minimum reqz mean, Native resolution, 30fps+ all times, all other settings to minimum supported by in game video controls. I'd have been really dissapointed if i met minimum reqz and couldn't manage solid 30 fps, way more than if i'd gone into it knowing "I'm below minimum specs" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szaby84 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 With these minimum requirements I think he should be able to run the game at least on the lowest settings and 30+ FPS. There is something wrong with the game, I can run Unreal Tournament 3 and other "modern" UE3 games like Arkham, Mass Effect, Bioshock series with higher details but in RenegadeX I get 5-10 FPS at the main menu and 20-25 in-game with lowest settings at 1366x768. Also I noticed the game uses much GPU even on menu, 100% GPU usage everywhere, like there is a "GPU leak" or something. And -don't take this the wrong way but- RenegadeX is not so good looking to be so demanding... My laptop isn't so powerful but as I stated before it should run this without any issues: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.4 GHz RAM: 2x2GB VGA: Mobility Radeon 4670 1 GB GDDR3 OS: Windows 8.1 x64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathDealer Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 im having the same problem, fps around 15 withe evry thing on very low, and if i get settings up to max, with 1080p resolution frame rate goes down to 7fps. i have a nvidia 670gtx third gen i7 32 Gb of ram 120gb ssd ... the game should run better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totem Arts Staff kenz3001 Posted March 1, 2014 Totem Arts Staff Share Posted March 1, 2014 very odd this is what i run moo: os: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate - Service Pack 1 cpu: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor (x64) at 4000MHz - 4200MHz gfx: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB res: 1440x900 ram: 3421/16284.3MB (21.01%) [||--------] (16 GB @1866) i can run the game on ultra @ 50 - 60 fps noprobs (wile recording i have very hight settings and turn the res down to 720p) so its either you drivers / directx out of date, you have alot of crap running in the background or you have somthing very wrong with one of your parts but its most proboly your pc dont like to run the game @ 1080p so lower your res and or settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legitsu Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 very odd this is what i run moo: os: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate - Service Pack 1 cpu: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor (x64) at 4000MHz - 4200MHz gfx: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB res: 1440x900 ram: 3421/16284.3MB (21.01%) [||--------] (16 GB @1866) i can run the game on ultra @ 50 - 60 fps noprobs (wile recording i have very hight settings and turn the res down to 720p) so its either you drivers / directx out of date, you have alot of crap running in the background or you have somthing very wrong with one of your parts but its most proboly your pc dont like to run the game @ 1080p so lower your res and or settings he only has 256MB of dedicated vram at 1600x900 the game will use 300 to 400MB at 1080 that goes up to 500 to 700mb the geforcem can allocate some system memory for vram use but thats really slow it accounts for the performance dip if he wants 1080p hes gonna need to lower his texture,mesh settings to low and turn off dynamic lights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfrikku Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 im having the same problem,fps around 15 withe evry thing on very low, and if i get settings up to max, with 1080p resolution frame rate goes down to 7fps. i have a nvidia 670gtx third gen i7 32 Gb of ram 120gb ssd ... the game should run better I know you should be able to go into the Nividia control panel and force the game to run on your video card and get better fps. I think the game wants to use the gpu that is integrated with the processor over the video card.I had that issue and now I'm running the game on ultra with about 60 fps and I'm using a nividia gtx 680m. This may work for the others only way to know is for them to test it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paiyn Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Possible solution: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=72631 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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