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marekpolanski
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SOftware /hardware problem!

Post by marekpolanski »

Hi,
Im playing Privateer remake and have some problem. I have HP compaq nx9005 laptop (AMD 2000+, 700Mb RAm, Radeon g card). I use medium or low detail level, but when there is a asteroid filed on the view the game slows down terribly. It makes huge different when it comes to fiht with several ships, because I cant even track the target. Im playing polon mission and have to kill several centurions with mine fully ugraded centurion and I failed couple times because of this problem... BUt I can understand that - just too slow comuter. What I CANT undrestand is when i Installed game on desktop with GF 4 , 1GB ram , Game goes smoothly.. BUT , when I press TAB key afterburner is not responding, as well as mouse shoot ( as well as SPACE key) I cant shoot and speed up! The computer Im talking about has MSI KT4 main board, AMD Athlon 2000 processor 1GB RAM GF4 Graphic card..
Please help me guys!
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Post by klauss »

Welcome to the club.

That's a known problem with the "destructible asteroids".
There were instructions somewhere (wiki or forum, can't remember) to disable them, or reduce their appearance frequency, but in general that's a known problem which is hard to fix (without loosing destructible asteroids), and which is being worked on.

For now, besides looking for those instructions, all I can say is: live with it.
The missions, though a bit frustrating, are possible even with the asteroid problems. You'll eventually get used to it, and will (unconsciously) find ways to avoid looking at asteroid concentrations while fighting. I know, I went thorugh the same phase, and I was on a much dumber machine, which a much dumber graphics card.

Though it is probably smarter to just disable them.
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Post by marekpolanski »

Thnx for the answer
But I have no problem with that asteroids on desktop, only on laptop...
As I wrote, on my desktop everything is fine BUT the TAB key ( afterburner ) is not working and I cant shoot .. why?
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Post by Mordred »

The asteroids in beta, gamma are indestructible (cross missions), from what I could read here, all asteroids could be destroyed... just what I have noticed...ver 1.2
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Post by micheal_andreas_stahl »

If there are more than one astroid field they are made that way to save the cpu. Though i have found that one of two systems have more than one field but i can still be destroyed.
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