***ENVY 14 Gaming Lounge***

[MagusDraco]

sc2 could also be overheating on account of "dude I'm sc2. I have no fps cap by default and if there's nothing happening I'll ratchet your fps up to the 500s and force your card to redraw this one thing way too many times and stuff like that until it crashes, or melts."

[kotmul]

Somehow, i passed chapter 2 by ditching my friend sniper. I think it was still bugged as enemies didnt even attack me and just stood there doing nothing.
So i just walk passed them to finish it. Then chapter 3 came where i fail the mission as soon as it starts. This game is seriously bugged or maybe just the one i dled...

[Phongy]

Damnit I was playing starcraft II and it crashed twice on me with black and white verticle lines. Is that because I overclocked it to 550 and 520 the second time? Or is this a known bnet thing with ati cards?

Where does this happen for you? It only occurs to me when I try to talk/view units in the armory.

[LiTh07]

Sniper Ghost Warrior runs really smootly on max settings at 500/800.

Although my game is bugged so im basically stuck in chapter 2 because my computer sniper guy friend does not freakin move and just stand like a statue.

the name of that game just makes it sound sheap and cheesy lol

[L3vi]

Nvm

10 chars.

Oh and DAMN IT! After so long, today my notebook crashed again while playing COD4. I want to try out other games and see if it's specific to this game. I'm sure I don't have a faulty card though. ATI probably needs to release a driver update, not an update to CCC.

[MagusDraco]

hmmm *turns off catalyst AI and gets 30-40 fps on 1600x900 in SC2 on high settings but medium shadows, mainly 30, sometimes 25*

whelp. I know what I"m never turning on again unless it was helping some other game. sure fps drops to like 15 if the map zooms out all that much (so I'm gonna probably drop some other things down and/or go back to how my settings were before), but damn catalyst AI was screwing things up

[Friendly0Fire]

hmmm *turns off catalyst AI and gets 30-40 fps on 1600x900 in SC2 on high settings but medium shadows, mainly 30, sometimes 25*

whelp. I know what I"m never turning on again unless it was helping some other game. sure fps drops to like 15 if the map zooms out all that much (so I'm gonna probably drop some other things down and/or go back to how my settings were before), but damn catalyst AI was screwing things up

Oh yes. I've never seen a game where AI improved things; it only degrades them. I've seen corruption, texture issues, lag, crashes, lockups, anything. I don't know what AI is supposed to do, but never turn it on...

[MagusDraco]

good to know.

also that 15ish fps is more of a "cutscenes" kinda thing and/or the super zoom out on the challenge maps.

[bucknasty87]

What settings does everyone use for SC2? Resolution, Medium/High/etc, any other adjustments?

Also, how do you check your fps in SC2?

[MagusDraco]

ctrl+alt+f turns the fps counter on.


before I knew about catalyst AI sucking I was on high shaders, low lighting, a special setup for shadows (that got rid of soft shadows and made the shadows not as smooth in general by lowering their resolution/size/whatever that option was) and something that turned off hdr lighting altogether.

now I'm currently on high with medium shadows. Gonna experiment more with regular settings.