v3.0.6 Borg Lag

posted on May 30th, 2009, 6:09 am

Since I've started playing v3.0.6 I've noticed that if there are even a handful of Borg ships, particularly Spheres for some odd reason, the game starts to visually lag.

I usually have no problems running the game at 1920x1200, 8x AA, full details. My comp is more than adequate - 8800GTX + overclocked Core2Quad. Hell, it even plays smooth on an 8600GT...

Anyone else experiencing this?

posted on May 30th, 2009, 6:15 am

not sure about just normal playing but when ever I play with any AA I get lag with ship explosions and I have a i7 8800gt with 6gb of ram I should be able to play like 4 copys of this game at once but I get mega lag, related?

posted on May 30th, 2009, 8:21 am

Borg explosions tend to render slowly (it does look more epic...), but everything else around them seems to happen at normal speed.

My problem seems to only occur when a Borg ship or two is engaging a fleet. In my base / wherever there isn't a fight things are perfectly normal.

posted on May 30th, 2009, 8:39 am

the borg explotions are to to with the way the armarda engine renders ship breakups, the borg ships are made of so many diff parts it lags.

i get huge lag and i have a 9800 GTX 1GB with 8Gb DDR3 Ram and a Q6700 3.2Ghz quad core...

its the engine not the PC

posted on May 30th, 2009, 10:38 am

Also, as I mentioned in the main 3.0.6 thread, I get lag everytime a new Borg ship type shows up for the first time, i.e. model and textures are loaded.

The game slows down for several seconds in that case and even a single new ship is enough to cause that (miner, scout cube, whatever).

posted on May 30th, 2009, 3:17 pm

Don't all the models / textures get preloaded? I half remember there is some flag in RTS_CFG.h for that...

Anyway, I'm pulling the data from a 10K RPM harddrive via SATA II onto 1066 Mhz RAM w/ basically no background processes - this REALLY shouldn't be happening. If I can play Crysis on high a (highly updated, granted) ~5 year old (?) game engine shouldn't cause problems, EVER.

posted on May 30th, 2009, 3:20 pm

Load Storm 3D, open a borg cube sod, and you will see the problem. (note there will be no textures)

posted on May 30th, 2009, 3:23 pm

Anyone know if the Borg models were updated from 3.0.5a? As per the title I've only noticed the problem on 3.0.6.

posted on May 30th, 2009, 3:24 pm

Nah, they have been like this for a long time.