Wheel of Time - Horrible Performance

[Smello]

Has anyone here tried out the Wheel of Time game yet? For me, it gets extremely choppy in certain areas; mainly in large open areas, or in places with a lot of individual objects.. right now I'm still somewhat early on in the game (looking for the Amyrlin in the Tower), but the game runs so choppy at that point that it's unplayable. The odd thing is, it runs about the same whether I have all of the game settings on their highest or lowest levels; it runs just as poor in 512x384 at the lowest settings as if I run it at 800x600, highest settings (or near enough, anyway.) Any ideas on what could be causing this? Should I just take the game back or wait for a patch? I value anyone's input..

[Smello]

Sorry, forgot my specs-

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Specs:
P2 333, SE440BX
128M ram
Millennium G400 32 meg
Win98 non-se, DX 7

[Allan2]

Well, I have a G400 and Wheel of Time with A PIII 500@560 and the game is still choppy in same areas as you said. I think this thing really wants an Athlon 800 or something

The game is great and a lot of fun but just a bit chunky in heavy action scenes. Turning of detail textures made the biggest impact for me.

[DrFizix]

There is a patch on www.wheeloftime.com that helps Direct3D performance considerably.

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System specs (well, everyone else is doing it!):

Asus P2B-F motherboard
Pentium III 450, no overclock
G400MAX/32DH, no overclock
192 MB PC100 RAM
SB Live Value
Hauppauge WinTV PCI
ReelMagic Hollywood+
USR 56K ISA
Win98 SE

[Muad'Dib]

I'm running the DEMO version on a K6-300 + MAX and it works just fine for me at any resolution. It slows down when I run it at 1600 x 1200, but I suppose it's supposed to at my cpu speed....

[CMB]

I had the exact same problem in Unreal tournament,
i think its the Unreal engine and a g400
turning world textures and skin textures and also having it in 16bit fixed all this for me and now it runs excellent with MINIMAL slowdown in 1024x768 with 16 bots

Wheel of time ran poo fro me also but i havent tried installing it and changing the engine settings, try that.

I cant run unreal in 32bit at all
not even with everything on LOW in 640x480 so i dont think its a 16mg memory issue for me
i think its a problem with the code in the engine... anyone else care to comment??
oh my specs are
P3 450@504 128mg
Marvel G400 (YAHOOOOOO!!!!)

[halo242]

i instaled WOT last week and it runs great im very impressed wit has a matter of fact.
p3 450
g400max
256ram
-paul

[Tumu]

The problem might be that current drivers don't support texturing from AGP-addressable memory, so the textures have to be transferred first to the cards local memory before using them, slowing frame rates down in scenes with lots of big textures.

-Tumu


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Celeron 333 (not overclocked), GigaByte 6BXE Intel 440BX AGPset (bios v3.3),
64MB PC100 RAM, G200 AGP 8MB SGRAM (not overclocked, a fan, bios v2.6),
PD5.30, SB16 Value, 3COM Fast EtherLink XL, Sony Multiscan 100ES, HP8210i
Win95OSR2.1 finnish

[Micko]

Turn volymetric lightning off and frames goes up!

Micko

[Tumu]

That's only a workaround for the problem. G400 does have enough power to do some serious eye candy if the drivers have the necessary features.

Why the volumetric lighting slows frame rate? It's because the lighting fixtures are applied to the textures and if the textures are big, it will take some time to transfer them to the cards memory for display. And if the textures are updated very often with new light fixtures, it will slow everything down. Using big textures with light fixtures directly from main memory would be much faster but the current drivers don't support it. The slowdown is even more with G200's, because of its small local video memory bandwidth.

-Tumu

[Guyver]

I turned some of the extra goodies on, and no chop whatsoever..

PIII450@600Mhz, 133FSB, PC133HSDRAM, G400Max AGP2x @ 89Mhz...

Guyv

[DukeP]

I cannot understand this...?

Following my original post, everything runs clean and nice...

I do play a lot q3 and ut multiplayer. I think I know abit about what a descent amount of frames should be...


Just bought Wheel of Time.
Its an absolute stunner!
With alle bells and whistles, it plays at 1024x768.

I have no Idea about how many frames i get, but I would guess about 35-40 frames. This is easily enough for this game, as I have yet to experience lag or jittering of any kind. I run the game in Direct3D, using Directx7.

My machine is an p3@500mhz with 128mb ram and the faboulus G400 MAX

This is the engine part of my WoT.ini:

[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
WindowedViewportX=640
WindowedViewportY=480
WindowedColorBits=16
FullscreenViewportX=1024
FullscreenViewportY=768
FullscreenColorBits=16
Brightness=0.600000
MipFactor=1.000000
UseDirectDraw=True
UseJoystick=False
CaptureMouse=True
StartupFullscreen=True
CurvedSurfaces=False
ScreenFlashes=True
NoLighting=False
SlowVideoBuffering=True
DeadZoneXYZ=True
DeadZoneRUV=False
InvertVertical=False
ScaleXYZ=1000.000000
ScaleRUV=2000.000000
MinDesiredFrameRate=30.000000
UseDirectInput=False
SkinDetail=High
TextureDetail=High
bLowDetailGeometry=False
ParticleDensity=255
MaxDetailLevel=4
MaxNumDecals=128
MasterDetailLevel=2
GoreDetailLevel=3
MaxClientTickRate=0
LanguageExt=int
LanguageExt=frt
LanguageExt=det
LanguageExt=itt
LanguageExt=est

[Engine.Player]
ConfiguredInternetSpeed=2600
ConfiguredLanSpeed=20000

Hope this helps...



[This message has been edited by DukeP (edited 22 November 1999).]