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Reply to Poor Performance Optimization and Programming in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="Lyph3" reply="3" id="2085425"]I was monitoring my system resources and my processor was never above 50% and my RAM was nowhere near jam packed with Sins goodness.[/quote]In fact, with a Q6600, your processor could be at 25% and still be bottlenecking Sins. As far as I know, Sins, like most games, only uses one core, maybe it threads some purely graphical-related operations like loading textures, but all the business logic seems to be single-thread as you won't see Sins splitting a

Reply to Random In-Game Images with 7ds and Vanilla Sins in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Gotta love Advent's visual style. [e digicons]:drool:[/e]

Reply to Poor Performance Optimization and Programming in Technical Sins Forums

[quote]2 gig of ram is very low... specially with Vista eating almost 1 gb for running with ease...[/quote]It's not very low. It's the officially recommended amount of RAM for this game, on Vista. It's also what most people have in their computer. Anyway only about 10% of people run 64-bit Windows so it's not like they designed the game to only run well on systems with above 3GB of ram.

Reply to Unexplainable lags in Technical Sins Forums

@bhereg : if you're kicked back to the desktop, that's a game crash, it's another issue completely, and a much more serious one. If the game always crash there might be a problem with your computer, because it's quite stable for me and most players. Also, my CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo, so I think the lag issue has nothing to do with what company designed the CPU. My computer is up-to-date and it can run any game at the performance I would expect from it. Not Sins. Well, as I said I ne

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Destroy All Monsters" reply="10" id="2082341"]To me it's just one more piece of software to manage that I'd rather not - whereas if Impulse were a standalone app or based on something other than IE I wouldn't have to.[/quote]You know what, it's called a software requirement. There are a lot of hardware requirements for Sins : - A working electrical outlet - A fully functional computer, including : - A directX 9.0c compatible video card wit

Reply to Tips: Beating the CPU in entrenchment (TEC) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

This is great ! And you know what would be even greater ? A replay ! [e digicons]O:)[/e]

Reply to Entrenchent has divided online play. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yesterday night there were about 180 active games of vanilla Sins and about 65 of Entrenchment IIRC. So my somewhat informed guess is that the majority is still playing vanilla Sins. But you can expect that to change gradually, just like today most people play Starcraft Broodwar or Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne.

Reply to Unexplainable lags in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="McKey35" reply="18" id="2082614"]What is it then?[/quote]It's Sins of a Solar Empire being greedy with CPU time, that's the only way I can explain it. Either it has problems maintaining a large, fluctuating number of ships in memory, or updating AI logic for numerous player once the game has attained a certain degree of complexity... I don't know. But it's out of the control of the player.

Reply to A 3 player FFA and 2 wtfs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Hack78" reply="8" id="2082525"]The player needs to SURRENDER not QUIT to prevent an AI taking over!!! But alot of ppl won't do that as they don't want the defeat on their record [/quote]To be honest, I didn't know the difference. I've always clicked "quit" regardless of the outcome of the game. I've indeed lost more games than is indicated by my record. Again, that's pretty stupid. A player leaving the game has, by definition, resigned. It's like that in St

Reply to Reset Camera? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Agent of Kharma" reply="1" id="2082267"]I was just about to ask about this myself. My problem is, about 100 times a game, while right clicking to give an order to a unit, I also slightly twist the camera (which also uses a right click - go figure). I HATE THAT.[/quote]Me too. A "reset camera" key is something I've been looking for since my first game of Sins. Also, I wish rotating the camera would be assigned to middle click. Right now middle click pans the camer

Reply to Entrenchment AI and Mines in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="TwinSnakes" reply="7" id="2081982"]Must be a bug, but I cant clear mines. They are homing mines. I brought in like 10 scouts. I can see all of the mines. And I've taken over the planet. But, as soon as my scouts approach the mines, the mines activate and kill my scouts. Can anyone help? [/quote]If you hover the cursor over them (well, proximity mines at least, haven't seen the others), it says "invulnerable". So, eith

Reply to Unexplainable lags in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="djjimmyswift" reply="8" id="2077757"]Ok, I can confirm that lowering all graphics settings, turning off bloom, and sound does not work or help improve performance.. I played two large maps with my self & 7 AI players on unfair random to put your suggestions to the test Blair. Both for a few hours. The threshold point when the lag sets in, starts around when every player has about 5 planets.. It's all down hill from there.<br

Reply to Poor Performance Optimization and Programming in Technical Sins Forums

Just played a game of Entrenchment tonight with 5 other players online. It ran pretty well. Zooming in on a large army will still pause for a full 2 seconds or more sometimes, but I guess that's with all the texture/effects loading that has to take place at that moment. The general framerate was pretty damn good. I should test it with AIs though. My most laggy games were against comps, but in 1.13.

Reply to A 3 player FFA and 2 wtfs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="AxeEmAll" reply="4" id="2082454"]That's what the latest patches of Sins did: strengthen AI. Heck, in Entrenchment, pirates are powerful. Not even 3 capital ships matched with 30 frigates are sufficient to decimate their entire fleet. And that's not even multiplayer. The improved AI is what many Sins players have always rooted for. I suggest that you master dealing with the AI in single player first, exploiting its weaknesses. [/quote]It

A 3 player FFA and 2 wtfs in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I played a 3 player FFA in multiplayer tonight, which I lost as usual. I lost mainly because it quickly turned into a 1vs2, me being the "1". That's ok, I can't prevent that from happening. However : - One player quit the game early on. I didn't even notice, but an AI took his place. WTF. I've had to fight against an AI the whole time, while the human player built his army and started to whoop my ass on the other side of the system. I never wanted to play against an AI. I can't

Reply to Poor Performance Optimization and Programming in Technical Sins Forums

I can confirm, as of Sins 1.15, the game still becomes a slidewhow with a few AI players ( >= 4) after a while. It seems less severe than before, but it's still there. I'm running on an [email protected]. I would upgrade my CPU, but it seems that even the best Core i7 isn't going to cut it, the game just becomes incredibly greedy with CPU time. It's one of my major gripes with Sins of a Solar Empire.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.15 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Well they could provide Entrenchment as a patch to Sins. But I think asking for 10$ now and then is fair considering their continuous arduous work on improving the game. They're probably not working for free. ;)

Reply to 1.15 Replays in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

What I'd really like to see is someone playing TEC or Advent, at least 1v2 against hard AIs. Unfair is even better. I just can't do it. Well so ok, that's not multiplayer. For multiplayer, any replay of a very good player in a difficult position is welcome.

Reply to Want to know why people pirate video games? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Now that I'm not a high school student without income anymore, I can afford to pay for my games and I gladly do so. There are still cases where I don't feel any shame for pirating a game : - There's no demo and I want to try it before I buy - The game is old and hard to find in stores - Even if I do find it, my money probably isn't going to the original developper Services like Steam and Impulse make it much easier than before to buy and inst

Reply to 1.15 Replays in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Start putting them in boys and girls! small ffa 1 TEC 1 Vasari 1 Advent. As Vasari I went Trade pretty well, however I had some issues with my real estate :/ Game lasts 2 hours [/quote]Thanks, watching this now and learning a lot of tricks. One thing I don't get : how can you jump from one of your distant asteroids to your home planet directly ?

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire v1.15 Change Log in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]- Numerous memory savings.[/quote]Does that mean performance improvements with large numbers of ships / players ?

Reply to Started today - GUI question in Single Player Sins Forums

[quote who="Hack78" reply="8" id="1966562"]Little hint - turrets are useless as they can be circumvented - repair bays, hangers, PJIs and of course a fleet are much better options for defending [/quote]But the AIs don't circumvent them, so it's effective against AIs. I know they saved my ass plenty of times.

Reply to Sins - More gpu or cpu intensive? in Technical Sins Forums

Hi Thoumsin, I'm not armed for an OpenGL vs Direct3D debate and I think it is largely irrelevant to any performance problems one may have with Sins. First, Sins of a Solar Empire is really not GPU-bound at all, anyone can test that themselves easily. Even if there was a significant performance difference between OpenGL and Direct3D, it wouldn't have any relevance. I don't think the Wikipedia article you quoted suggested that there is a significant performance difference betwee

Reply to Sins - More gpu or cpu intensive? in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="7" id="2072037"]Wine is not a DirectX implementation, it is a tools who translate directX implementation in OpenGl implementation...[/quote] Wine (...) provides a DirectX implementation (...). [quote who="Thoumsin" reply="7" id="2072037"]By the way, the Windows implementation of Direct3D uses system RAM for textures in the IWineD3DSurfa

Reply to Sins - More gpu or cpu intensive? in Technical Sins Forums

Myself, i use Linux and OpenGL... main difference is that texture are not loaded in the main ram like with directX but directly in the graphic ram... but you need minimum a 512 mb card with sins else texture are buffered in the main ram like with directx... Sorry but that's just crap. Sins of a Solar Empire doesn't support Linux, and it doesn't support Op