P650 + Homeworld 2

[jeanlucpikachu]

Has anyone here tried running Homeworld 2 w/ a Matrox P650? If so, how'd it run?

Just curious, thanks in advance.

[Prospero]

Works fine. The game on the other hand, keeps kicking my butt.

[albatorsk]

Oh? I'm curious what your other hardware specifications are. On my Parhelia, Homeworld 2 runs at about 3-10 FPS, no matter how I try to tweak it.

EDIT: Never mind. I found a thread about HW2 on Matrox' forum, with some tips for improving the performance.

[Prospero]

Asus PCP800-E-Dlx
2.6c P4
1 gig of HyperX Corsair
Plays fine, but I spend most of my time in map mode anyway.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Prospero
Asus PCP800-E-Dlx
2.6c P4
1 gig of HyperX Corsair
Plays fine, but I spend most of my time in map mode anyway.

nice rig you got there

[jeanlucpikachu]

Originally posted by albatorsk
Oh? I'm curious what your other hardware specifications are. On my Parhelia, Homeworld 2 runs at about 3-10 FPS, no matter how I try to tweak it.

EDIT: Never mind. I found a thread about HW2 on Matrox' forum, with some tips for improving the performance.

Uh, I don't think Homeworld 2 will run on a Cyrix 386SX!

But seriously, how much of an improvement did you see after you finished tweaking?

[Prospero]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
nice rig you got there

Thanks. I upgraded recently. It's my editing box with an RTX10 in it, along with tv tuner card. I needed it stable as hell, and the particular hyperx ram I bought was on the compatibility list. Cost an arm and a leg, but so far worth it.

[albatorsk]

Originally posted by jeanlucpikachu
Uh, I don't think Homeworld 2 will run on a Cyrix 386SX!

It's a dual 1800, so the CPU power should be sufficient.

But seriously, how much of an improvement did you see after you finished tweaking?

None, actually. I raised my AGP aperture from 128 to 256, and the framerate went "all the way" up to 15-20FPS. But then I noticed the same thing that had happened to the others, the textures was gone. So I guess that explains the higher FPS. My dxdiag reports AGP texturing support as enabled, so that's not the problem, and I'm using the AMD AGP chipset drivers.

[Chriss]

If you play HW2 or the Demo, then please help matrox to fix this Problem with the missing Textures. At the Moment, they got this Problem only with athlon boards - with the exception of me using an Asus P4G8X.

http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=4119&start=60

Btw: I'm using a Parhelia, but it rums pretty smoth with the details turned down and using an apperture size of 8 mb (which kicks me from 8500 3dmarks to 5000 for example )
I'd say you'll have pretty slow framerates, but since it's a RTS, you should be able to play it.