Well I finally got X3 (Tuesday) installed patched to 1.2.
I had 3 goals while installing X3 more like wishes. I wanted firstly the game to run without crashing and it runs without crashing. Second I wanted my joystick to work cause some people had joystick issues. My joystick works perfectly. Third I wanted at least 30+ fps all the time. This is where the game failed me. I exceed the minimum req by quite a bit and people with far less than my system have reported running the game smoothly. I am probably getting an average of 4-25 fps mostly in the 10-20 fps range. I am also getting dips in performance where I might not be doing anything particular and the fps drops very low then comes back up. 3.2P4E 1GB PC3200 X800XTPE
Its fairly frustrating
to exceed the min req by a good amount and get sub par performance. Although the game is playable and it is beautiful. I see I'm not the only one getting low performance on a mid-high spec machine so I don't feel totally isolated. No matter what settings I choose I get the same performance. I have tried many different settings in my video card control center and the game itself and the performance varies by only a few fps 5-8 fps probably on average even from the very lowest possible settings to the highest. I have read and tried many of the different suggestions and stickies without any success. I wouldent mind playing at lower graphic settings but even the lowest settings gives the same performance as the highest settings. Disabling the hud gives a significant performance increase but playing without the hud isn't much of an option. It seams to be the only thing that really affects performance but I simply cant play without the hud. I built this computer myself so I know how to take care of it such as defragging and updating drivers for everything and bios and such. Everything is up to date drivers, bios everything. I even like to play around with http://www.tweakguides.com/ and get into the nuts and bolts of truly tweaking your programs and bios and OS. I have done a clean boot for gaming to make sure nothing is running in the background to interfere with the game. Even with the clean boot with the bare minimum programs/drivers running needed to play the game I still get the same performance problems low frame rate and stuttering performance.
You can check out how to do a clean boot here.
Games: How to perform a clean boot to prevent background programs from interfering with play
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;331796
Although I am not getting stellar performance I am still happy with the game just not as happy if my performance would have been better. I would have been much much less happy if my joystick didnt work or if I was experiencing ctd or lockups. Probbly the best way to describe my feelings is disappointment although I can play.
I have a question for the devs or for people in general on this board.
With a higher then min req spec machine in good up to date running condition should I be getting better performance than I am currently getting? I mean truly should the game be running smoother for me and other people with performance issues who have higher spec comps? 3.2P4E 1GB PC3200 X800XTPE
I think overall this is a good message board and the frequency of posting form the devs shows there commitment to makeing the game smoother and better for everyone. I really hope 1.3 solves some of the problems I have with my game. Take your time Egosoft dont rush it.
