Oh a deja-vu theatre.

Do we need the same theatre again and again??

Cant you just give it a correct name to prevent the typical "Myth creation"??

As we found in the last "EAW1.28 and slow FPS" theatres, its NOT just EAW1.28 related, its related to all EAW versions.

All you found here, we already found a year(or so) ago, when you was reporting the extreme slow donws with your PC.

At that time it got obvious that also EAW1.2 suffer by this slowdowns and that mainly modern PC´s (dual core and/or modern graphiccards and WinXP) suffer by this problem.

Otherwise there was no real different found between a EAW1.2 and a EAW1.28x installations.
Only when Multiskins was loaded slower PC´s did suffer, but this also could be related to the 3dz´s of the currently loaded plane. The different with multiskins was only good visible(2-5 fps) on PC´s like my realy slow K7 700MHz PC, with only 382MB RAM.

Can you please rename the theatre, then we can make it a sticky and then we dont need to discuss this again and again.

Greetings,

Knegel

btw, here is one of the theatres where we did discuss the FPS in EAW(at that time it wasnt EAW1.28 related).
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2734158/1.html

Out of this theatre here the conclusion out of tests made on different systems by different members of the code group:

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WinXP Professional SP2
In Game resolution 1024x768
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
2 x 2400 MHZ AMD
2 gig RAM.

With glide wrapper up to 130 fps max, min is around 30 fps.
In 3d max fps is around 50, min is around 10.

With more modern PC´s the glide wrapper offer a real advantage. The FPS never drops into a slideshow area and the pictures are extreme sharp.
With same PC´s the fps in 3d mode drop down below 30 as soon as a plane comes in sight and below 25 as soon as a 4mot comes in sight and while attacking 4 Mots its a slide show.

Unfortunatelly the 24 bit skins dont work in glide mode.
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WinXP Professional SP2
In Game resolution 1024x768
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
1 x 2200 MHZ AMD
1 gig RAM.

FPS is very similar in glide and 3d mode with a smal advantage for 3d.
Min fps is around 15, max fps is around 50.

With an older system (700MHz AMD K7, GF MX460), 3d have clear advantages, where the min fps is at around 15 and max is around 35.

Tonys rather new high end PC with Vista or Win7 offer a stable min fps of above 25, max fps goes up to around 70(if i remeber right).

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The values above was similar for similar systems of different code group mebers, using EAW1.28, EAW1.28a and EAW1.2.
There was no different between different exe´s.

More Modern systems + WinXP had real problems to get decent fps in 3d mode, often it get unplayable. Vista and Win7 with same PC offer playable fps in 3d mode
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I think the above is still valid knowledge.