My warzone is running very slowly...

[suicideidiot123]

It is extremly slow. I dont know what it is, but it is so bad its not running a single frame per second. Even in the main menu. I think its the music because i downloaded the demo a long while back from yahoo games and it ran smoothly. HELP! I miss the game and want to play! By the way, i want to play multiplayer with my friend but when i put in his ip adress, it doesnt show up. Oh well thats my problem. Where can i find a Decent server or something to play online with other people?

[lav_coyote25]

processor speed - and ram.

gfx processor speed and ram.

machine specs.

[Kamaze]

Without your hardware specs, we can't say much, like lav said.
If you have such a 'slow' machine, did you try turn shadows off?

(Ingame "alt+s" or with the starting flag "--noshadows")

[Watermelon]

Without your hardware specs, we can't say much, like lav said.
If you have such a 'slow' machine, did you try turn shadows off?

(Ingame "alt+s" or with the starting flag "--noshadows")

A little offtopic:Just curious why the shadows become fps killer in wz2100?

[Kamaze]

A little offtopic:Just curious why the shadows become fps killer in wz2100?

Thiey are stencil buffer (realtime) shadows. And not very well optimized yet.

[DevUrandom]

Even stencil shadows shouldn't be that slow.
But I think it could be because of the way they are drawn, looping through all objects and doing lots of matrix multiplication and (re)loads.
NeHe has some tutorial on this, but I guess Rod knew, but couldn't apply it, because of the way the WZ engine works...

[Watermelon]

so wz is doing all these shadows calculations with cpu because of the relatively old render engine?

[cybersphinx]

It is extremly slow. I dont know what it is, but it is so bad its not running a single frame per second. Even in the main menu.

The slowness in the menu means that Warzone is using software OpenGL. I guess either Warzone uses some OpenGL function your card/driver does not support, or something is wrong with your OS installation (assuming your system is OpenGL-capable, and fast enough for Warzone).

[suicideidiot123]

Dell Dimension Desktop 1.7 Ghz with 640 mb of ram.

gfx=Intel 82845G Graphics Conroller(?)  64mb ram

It should run fine? I think so.

[lav_coyote25]

it should.  you have the latest hardware drivers for the gfx card.?  Also is your dx uptodate?  dx9c was the last one for windows  i am assuming you have xp with service pack 2 and all recent updates.

from the looks of the hardware is should run fine.  seeing as the one rig i used when it first came out was a p200 intel. 
with a standard gfx card. :-[ then upgraded to a 3dfx card..  ;D

anyways.  check out the system updates and ensure your up to date.

[suicideidiot123]

>:( >:( I dont know what to do! There are no more updates left!

Anyway yes i have all the things i need but it just doesnt agree with me. (By the way its version 2.0.4) ...................

I tried no shadows but it made no difference. The file is the way it should be because i rienstalled it twice. I really didnt have time to redownload it because my download speed is 2 kilobytes per second.  :-[(well sometimes on a good day 3 ) im so confused. Im running it in windowed mode so possibly its that. I tried to do fullscreen but it said...

"The name 'C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe --fullscreen' specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and filename are correct.

Perhaps i did this incorrectly.

[suicideidiot123]

;D ;D ;D I DID IT!!!!!! For some reason, when i finnaly figuered out how to switch to fullscreen, it ran fine. Sure, there are some brief pauses here and there, but its a start. And i dont hear music or gunshots

[lav_coyote25]

ok... is a start... but, i hate to be the bringer of bad news.... turf 204 and get 205 - 204 had so many bugs in it - it wasnt funny.  205 is a lot more stable... and should work right away.

make sure to uninstall all of 204 including the file folder where it installed.  i know is a pain in the butt... but will actually be better for you.

[MADBAD]

Hello from Italy.

It is extremly slow. I dont know what it is, but it is so bad its not running a single frame per second. Even in the main menu. I think its the music because i downloaded the demo a long while back from yahoo games and it ran smoothly. HELP! I miss the game and want to play! By the way, i want to play multiplayer with my friend but when i put in his ip adress, it doesnt show up. Oh well thats my problem. Where can i find a Decent server or something to play online with other people?

I've installed this wonderfull game today 
I''m having the same problem that suicideidiot123 has.
I've tried the --fullscreen and the --noshadows flags (also toghether) but nothing happen.
I'm running an
AMD Athlon 64 (3600+)
ram 2 gigabyte
gfx: ATI Radeon X800 SE
OS: Fedora Core 5 (not really updated because of my 56k connection  :-\ )

Warzone2100 2.0.5 RC1

Please help me!

[lav_coyote25]

>:( >:( I dont know what to do! There are no more updates left!
Anyway yes i have all the things i need but it just doesnt agree with me. (By the way its version 2.0.4) ...................
I tried no shadows but it made no difference. The file is the way it should be because i rienstalled it twice. I really didnt have time to redownload it because my download speed is 2 kilobytes per second.  :-[(well sometimes on a good day 3 ) im so confused. Im running it in windowed mode so possibly its that. I tried to do fullscreen but it said...
"The name 'C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe --fullscreen' specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and filename are correct.
Perhaps i did this incorrectly.

"C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100_205_rc1\warzone2100.exe" --mod grim.wz --fullscreen --viewport 1280x1024

or

"C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100_205_rc1\warzone2100.exe" --fullscreen --viewport 1280x1024


make sure to include the spaces between the last "  and the -- 's   

your shortcut should resemble the above shortcut...(your path / screen resolution may be diferent).