Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: achiral on October 13, 2001, 11:54:01 AM
Post by: achiral on October 13, 2001, 11:54:01 AM
Although the game is cool and the idea is one of the best in the last couple of years, there is something I cant simply overlook.
Its only playable on the very newest machines. On Computers of the 300 -500 MHz Class its simply unplayable. Not because the complex simulation needs so much time, but the simple Mouse Control ist to slow.
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: Zyrxil on October 16, 2001, 03:17:43 PM
Post by: Zyrxil on October 16, 2001, 03:17:43 PM
Do you have a Radeon card? I think I've seen complaints of frame rate issues on Radeons.
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: BrandonP on October 14, 2001, 02:37:28 AM
Post by: BrandonP on October 14, 2001, 02:37:28 AM
It's fine on my 533 mHZ Celeron...
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: elrond on October 16, 2001, 03:19:05 PM
Post by: elrond on October 16, 2001, 03:19:05 PM
Athlon 550, GeForce DDR. runs smoothly but gets kinda slow with very big bridges.
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: Remnant on October 14, 2001, 04:08:55 AM
Post by: Remnant on October 14, 2001, 04:08:55 AM
Running on a 500mhz Athlon, it seems fine to me. my only speed-related issue is that when building those massive bridges, it runs a little on the chunky side.
Sure its' not a driver issue?
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: on October 16, 2001, 04:50:40 PM
Post by: on October 16, 2001, 04:50:40 PM
atlon 700, 1 gb ram, geforce 256
=> just smooooth ...
=> just smooooth ...
like that game ;)
(Edited by abra at 9:51 am on Oct. 16, 2001)
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: Miraculix on October 14, 2001, 10:37:34 AM
Post by: Miraculix on October 14, 2001, 10:37:34 AM
Pontifex is very well playable under win98, but hardly playable under win2000 even with a 1.3 GHz Athlon! (Slow mouse, slow trains).
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: pasqualz on October 17, 2001, 06:36:49 PM
Post by: pasqualz on October 17, 2001, 06:36:49 PM
I've had no problem running this game on a PII 300 with 64MB RAM. Maybe the problem is the mouse driver?
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: tijeff on October 14, 2001, 02:27:02 PM
Post by: tijeff on October 14, 2001, 02:27:02 PM
3d card is a BIG issue !!!!!
i'm running really smottly on a 900 mhz duron in win2000!!! in 1028x768 32bits
i'm running really smottly on a 900 mhz duron in win2000!!! in 1028x768 32bits
Geforce 2 gts make it all !
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: nalicnod on October 17, 2001, 08:01:10 PM
Post by: nalicnod on October 17, 2001, 08:01:10 PM
Athlon T-Bird 800 MHz + 256 mb + GF2 GTS - running smoothly
+ Radeon - texture colors not so great - not so fast
K6-2 400 MHz + 196 mb + TNT2 - unplayable
+ Radeon - texture colors not so great - not so fast
K6-2 400 MHz + 196 mb + TNT2 - unplayable
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: Frish on October 14, 2001, 04:46:30 PM
Post by: Frish on October 14, 2001, 04:46:30 PM
hehe, i prob have lowest end proc here, and it runs nice and smooth and fast like here.
pII 450 mhz. ver playable, ver smooth, ver less than 800mhz.
try getting new drivers for everything in your system . . that might help . . . .
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: Klei on October 18, 2001, 01:59:13 PM
Post by: Klei on October 18, 2001, 01:59:13 PM
My computer runs it fine - 300 Mhz Pentium II, with voodoo3 card, but on really big levels the train moves in fast mode the same as it does in normal mode! :-(
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: tmberry on October 15, 2001, 11:55:01 PM
Post by: tmberry on October 15, 2001, 11:55:01 PM
Works great here with a Intel PII 400MHz w/128MB and GeForce256 video card. some of the larger bridge levels slow to a crawl during run of test and train, but it's bareable.
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: dumbjon on October 19, 2001, 06:59:22 AM
Post by: dumbjon on October 19, 2001, 06:59:22 AM
I have an athlon 1.4ghz w/ 256 ram, geforce 2 mx, and windows 2k. Run it 1024x768x32 with 32 bit depth. Perfect as can be. This game froze on me until I downloaded the amd win2k patch from amd's website.
At work a bunch of coworkers have the demo, and they have p3 450's & p3 700's and they run it fine.
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: JohnK on October 16, 2001, 01:32:22 AM
Post by: JohnK on October 16, 2001, 01:32:22 AM
I'm running a lowly 350 amd k6-2! when the levels get big the train just runs a little slow. I just go make myself a sandwich and come back to the lovely words of "Next Level"! 
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: Ravean on October 19, 2001, 05:45:39 PM
Post by: Ravean on October 19, 2001, 05:45:39 PM
If the game is going really really slow and you think it should not be (other people here are running it fine with weaker systems) then you need to check your opengl drivers, if your card does not have the right opengl drivers it will try and run it in software mode which is going to go VERY slow no matter how fast your system is.
Title: rewriting of the Mouse Control
Post by: cfh7 on October 16, 2001, 05:54:39 AM
Post by: cfh7 on October 16, 2001, 05:54:39 AM
A Good 3-D video card is all you need! I have a PII - 333 (Don't laugh!) Anyway, I had a useless 4MB video card and even the demo of Pontifex was too slow. This game was worth spending a little money on a good card. I bought a 64MB G-Force 2 card and now it runs great! The only time it is a little slow is when the train is running. And only on the big bridges.