Great site guys...I'm an older D&D who just picked this game up. I had read too many horror stories (bugs) when it launched, so I had taken it off my mental short list of games to buy. Then I saw it at Gamestop (cheap helped of course)...and had recalled a thread over at Ars a few months back which indicated ToEE was "only mostly" patched but very playable. After reading through this sites incredible support threads yesterday...I almost didn't even have to register here. Seems you've covered all the bases w/ your stickies. Of course, I haven't applied any of the user mods yet, as I had patched to Official #3 upon install upon first loading the game two nights ago. So, I'll try to put #2 over #3 as directed and go from there w/ the mods here. I already noticed some crazy slowdown in combat a couple times. I think this was from opening a players inventory and manually changing their weapon from ranged (x-bow) to close (sword,etc). When I do this and close the inventory screen...combat is fubar, slow mouse, etc. I think you're supposed to simply click on one of the 4 pre-assignable loadouts within the inventory screen (RTFM finally)...at least that seemed to have helped. Finally, I was wondering if any one else was playing using the 2005FPW 20" widescreen from Dell. I went to widescreen gaming forums and the first thing I did (after patch #3!) was crank up the rez per their faz...but was wondering if their is an optimal setting this group had found for this panel which still looks great and offers the least slow downs. I was CTD with one of the 16:10 settings but can't recall which one. Anyway, signed in to say "great job" all around here and to check on the 20" WS rez options you've had success with...thanks in advance.
There is one thing that came to mind as I read your post. You can set the refresh rate to 75 Hertz instead of the default setting of 60 Hertz to see if that helps the display. * Normally, changing the refresh rate to 75 Hertz either makes a difference or makes no difference at all, not any significant partial difference. In short - if needed, you can set 75 Hertz in three places - in the following prescribed order. set 1st - in the ToEE "game options" set 2nd - in the Windows "advanced display" properties for the monitor set 3rd - in the DirectX "diagnostics" (run "DxDiag" from a command prompt) !!! When you run dxdiag, wait for the progress bar in its lower left to complete. Run DXDIAG > Click MORE HELP (tab) > Click OVERRIDE (button) > Click OVERRIDE DEFAULT (radio button) > Type 75 (in the text field) > Click OK (button) > Reboot the computer Enjoy!..
Thanks, Krunch The more I think about it...any slow downs I experience will probably be usnolvable. This game was built 2 yrs ago...a A64 3500+ and X800 XL, 1GB RAM Dual Channel shouldn't have issues running it at 1680x1050...or what have you. Any issues will more likely be build/software related.
Yowzer...I guess any of the video settings should be tested as well...AA, etc. I forget how many options there were but I'll check tonight (or next time I fire it up). I just know I cranked every option up/on when I first went in....
How are you running it at widescreen? The highest option I have is 1280x1024 even though my monitor is a native 1680x1050 widescreen. I see. You just change the resolution in toee.cfg to anything you want. Easy!
