Pump it up
Fri, 2009-02-20 14:30 — Uriah
Have a low spec machine?
A laptop with crappy on board graphics?
An intel card that's turning the entire terrain white?
There's hope!
unC0Rr and Nemo have been working hard to make Hedgewars more accessible to everyone in 0.9.10. unC0Rr has rewritten the way land is generated to increase speed and hopefully fix that annoying bug with intel cards that renders the entire terrain white (if anyone with that problem would like to test this, let us know).
Meanwhile Nemo has been working on graphics options that will allow you to turn off various graphics options to trade graphics for speed. We've seen an increase from 280fps to 460fps on a high spec machine, running on low graphics settings. Whilst Nemos old laptop that was pretty much incapable of playing Hedgewars at any resolution now gets a solid FPS at reasonable res.
Screenshot of the game on low graphics settings here
A laptop with crappy on board graphics?
An intel card that's turning the entire terrain white?
There's hope!
unC0Rr and Nemo have been working hard to make Hedgewars more accessible to everyone in 0.9.10. unC0Rr has rewritten the way land is generated to increase speed and hopefully fix that annoying bug with intel cards that renders the entire terrain white (if anyone with that problem would like to test this, let us know).
Meanwhile Nemo has been working on graphics options that will allow you to turn off various graphics options to trade graphics for speed. We've seen an increase from 280fps to 460fps on a high spec machine, running on low graphics settings. Whilst Nemos old laptop that was pretty much incapable of playing Hedgewars at any resolution now gets a solid FPS at reasonable res.
Screenshot of the game on low graphics settings here
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daimadoshi85
Whoa guys that's great!Good work!At launchpad also told that maybe the problem for intel could be solved in jaunty!
nemo
I'd like to note that of those two, breaking up the textures was a lot more work.
Oh well. I've contributed decent size chunks elsewhere...
nemo
Oh, and daimadoshi85 - my old sucky laptop was using an intel card, I updated it to Jaunty to see if that was the reason I was getting opengl crashes. The new intel driver did indeed fix the problem.
alex12
FINALLY!