New Horizon on 21/3/2006 at 20:05
Quote Posted by BR796164
But hey, they mentioned in readme it's not recommended for laptops, didn't they.
Just that Eidos won't offer technical support for laptops. The game will work just fine on one with enough juice though.
Fig455 on 21/3/2006 at 20:51
on my Sempron 2500+, Gig pc2700 DDR, and 9800 PRO, I get 25+ fps, and load times exactly at 10 seconds. Every time. No exceptions. If I am standing still like you described I get 45 fps. I mostly hover around 25-35 fps in-game according to FRAPS. Settings maxed, Bloom on, no AA, AF forced to 8, @ 1024x768/.
Rogue Keeper on 22/3/2006 at 09:20
Quote Posted by OrbWeaver
Above 24/25fps we see continuous motion rather than a series of static images. This doesn't mean that we can't detect judder though - just look at a fast motion scene during a film and you can easily see the jerkiness.
I'm not quite sure what you mean... movies always play at constant "framerate". Cinema films are typically recorded at 24 frames per second. PAL TV has standard of 25 frames per second. NTSC has a standard of 30 frames per second or so.
Quote Posted by New Horizon
The game will work just fine on one with enough juice though.
Yes, but anyway... playing such game on laptop seems to me rather as a masochistic experience. :p
jermi on 23/3/2006 at 21:16
He means steady 24 frames per second does not always look like smooth motion. In fact, it usually doesn't. Slow camera pans are the worst. 35mm 24fps film is still used today not because it's good, but because it's cheap. It's practically 100-year-old technology.
mrsmr2 on 23/3/2006 at 22:07
Quote Posted by BR796164
I'm not quite sure what you mean... movies always play at constant "framerate". Cinema films are typically recorded at 24 frames per second. PAL TV has standard of 25 frames per second. NTSC has a standard of 30 frames per second or so.
Yes, but anyway... playing such game on laptop seems to me rather as a masochistic experience. :p
Cinema is recorded at 24fps but is projected at 3 or 4 times that in a cinema (e.g you see the frame, then a black screen, then the same frame again, then black, etc for 3 or 4 times per second). This fools the brain into thinking it's continuous otherwise it would look really jerky.
PAL is 50 interlaced fields per second, NTSC is 60 interlaced fields per second so they achieve smoother motion than 25 progressive fps or 30 progressive fps.
24fps was only chosen because it was the minimum the film makers could get away with.
jermi on 24/3/2006 at 18:15
Quote Posted by mrsmr2
Cinema is recorded at 24fps but is projected at 3 or 4 times that. This fools the brain into thinking it's continuous otherwise it would look really jerky.
Well that's more related to flickering than continuity of motion.
