Makar Kravchenko
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Posted - 2009.01.16 12:32:00 -
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Has anyone at CCP thought of having and option to disable ship models completely? Especially for Fleet Fights this would be usefull, since 95% of the people are playing zoomed out so far that the LOD system removes the ships from the screen anyway. The brackets are enough for you to maintain situational awareness, and if you have your overview setup correctly you can even see what the ship types are very easily. It would drastically reduce grid loading times when you warp into a fleet of 250 people, would it not? This could even apply to smaller scale situations, even in 75-75 type fights I play zoomed out far enough that none of the ship models are displaying (but still getting loaded into memory depending on how I move the camera in the situation, causing memory thrashing on the gpu and main ram). I think majority of the experienced people are playing the game via the overview and situational awareness using the brackets system. I'm hoping that this Premium Lite client resolves the issues with the entirely oversized texture memory usage on the gpu, when for the most part its never even displayed on screen.
I have and older system:
AMD Athlon 3400+
GeForce 6800 128mb (AGP 8x)
1GB OCZ DDR433
With the large scale that eve is played on it really makes it hard to show pretty stuff on screen with ANY kind of hardware, but older computers suffer badly, even the ones that support Shader Model 3.0. In this same right, I can play Half-Life 2 at 1280x960, with max detail and still easily get FPS not going below 15. With EVE, I have everything disabled and running at 1024x768, and I still get smashed when loading a 250 person grid, and like I said I play zoomed out, some times I need to moved the camera to align to something though and the LOD system will force some ships to load causing the game to crawl to 2-3 FPS (this is usually when I get primaried and die, or crash to desktop). I would like to be able to maneuver in the game without having to worry about where I am panning the camera to for fear it might crash my system.
Pretty ships dont help win the game hehe, give us and option to disable them completely. :) Since the hit calculations are not based on bounding boxes. :P I know CCP likes their pretty game and are proud of it, but not everyone wants to or can afford top level hardware but still love your game. For us people who enjoy the game without all the fancy graphics, give us the option to remove them (the ships) completely.
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