Silencer Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 Does everyone get virtually unplayable performance when line of sight mode is enabled? If I have line of sight mode enabled and the time is running (any speed besides pause) the performance drops to levels that are ridiculously slow. I can't even control the screen properly. I try to scroll the screen and nothing happens then it jumps way farther than I wanted to go, rotation is extremely jerky and does the same thing with long pauses and huge jumps, and virtually everything else including the game speed itself slows to a crawl. If I pause the game everything works fine again, and I suspect it must be the line of sight calculations for the aliens as they move around (as it happens even if my guys are standing still), but this is honestly ridiculous. Is there some setting or tweak I can do so that line of sight is actually usable? The only part of my machine that MIGHT be causing this is the fact that I only have 512mb of ram in it at the moment (new ram had a bad stick, waiting for replacements) but even that is within the requirements so I'm not sure. Is there anything I can do besides not using line of sight mode and having lots of my guys killed because I 'missed' a spot that I thought I had cleared? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 The LOS mode makes it unplayable for me too outside pause mode. I think they considered removing it, as it performed badly, but kept it because some people might find it useful in pause mode. Not sure however... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preda Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 When is LoS activated, anyway? For me, it's still a dull grey and un-clicable icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 On some graphic cards, the game will disable the LoS button. This is probably because either the lack of special graphical functions in the card, or the game precalculating an aberrant performance drop if allowed to be used. Other special views can also be affected, like Psi and infrared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian base commander Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I actually find the LOS very useful for positioning my sniper,however the performance is bad for me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TangTom Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 for me .... in LOS mode i cant play it - - ' when i'm unpause the time ... my com gonna restart - - ' maybe becoz my graphic card is too old ... hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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