Will it be possible for the game to downgrade its requirements like it used to?

[Au Revoir]

TITLE. Can't really play the game decently right now. I was hoping if ever they are able to lower its requirements, esp ram-wise. I need some hope to cling on. D:

[MasoCheese]

Same here Au.. :< (copy paste) Can't really play the game decently right now.

[Iroh]

Originally posted by Au Revoir:

TITLE. Can't really play the game decently right now. I was hoping if ever they are able to lower its requirements, esp ram-wise. I need some hope to cling on. D:

Generally, as games improve, they're requirements increase not decrease. I also find it harder and harder to play with the micro stuttering and frequent lag spikes, but there's not much I can do until I upgrade my rig. That's just the PC life sadly. I'm reaching 7 years old with my current computer and I can't really keep up with the tech. Hopefully sometime this year I can get a new setup, but in the meantime this is just how it is, my friend. Though I do know it's not entirely on my end. The servers need upgrading or optimizing or some other computer language I don't undestand lol

[Au Revoir]

Originally posted by ℛ℮ʟ☤εṽℯⅾ :D:

Same here Au.. :< (copy paste) Can't really play the game decently right now.

Really?! But how about your project? D: Last time i checked it was so marvelous!

[Au Revoir]

Originally posted by Boboturk:

The servers need upgrading or optimizing or some other computer language I don't undestand lol

Exactly what i was hoping for. Im hoping some optimization may take place so that the game wont eat up so much ram as it does right now D: im really hoping as i have invested much on the game and i hate to be forced to stop playing just because my hardware is not as modern as some are.

[Au Revoir]

And tbh, my rig is fine. Its just the ram requirement that is hindering me from playing the game. I can play other building games sure. But as i have said, i have already invested so much time on the game, and still planning to do so.

[MasoCheese]

Originally posted by Au Revoir:

Originally posted by ℛ℮ʟ☤εṽℯⅾ :D:

Same here Au.. :< (copy paste) Can't really play the game decently right now.

Really?! But how about your project? D: Last time i checked it was so marvelous!

Yeaah.. XD ty.. *yes it was* it's now become THE forgotten project :D hahaha..

[entuland]

Most probably a moot advice, but have you tried lowering all the settings and in particular reducing the view radius? The view radius determines how many chunks are loaded at once and that may help. Trying won't harm.

In general, I fully agree about the request: we should be allowed to reduce the quality of the game rendering to improve performance and reduce the resource consumption, getting rid of cosmetic effects, getting rid of the whole sky altogether (just keeping a uniform shade that changes over time) and similar things.

[Au Revoir]

I tried almost everything. Even lowering my resolution to 800*600. Posting this thread was resort. I have spent almost 1k hrs on the game before the 64bit update. Same device no hassle. Can run it almost the whole day and i wont have to force close the game cause it hang. Im just hoping theres something cooking up about this issue. As it decimated almost every player on the server i play on. ;-;

[Au Revoir]

Cause if im gonna be asked, i dont really care if the graphics go so low. All i want is to build or interact. But i cant do that anymore. Not as often as i used to.

[entuland]

I hear you and I fully agree with you. I would love to be able to run the game on my laptop - it's a 64bit Win 10 but it's not powerful enough to run the game, I can barely run it at 3 / 5 FPS in 640x480 resolution there, which is of course completely unplayable.

The thing that saddends me the most about these performance issue is that I can't play it with my nephews - I have four of them which could play this game, but we barely have two desktop PCs able to run the game, one is mine in my house, another is in my brother's shop and they can't surely play it there. Two of those nephews are in another town and they don't have a desktop PC at all, they only have laptops.

[Au Revoir]

I feel you, man. I have recommended this game to a lot of friends/relatives you name it. Almost most of them are interested but cant play.

I still have my hopes up that Playful have something up their sleeves. Cause its not only me who'll benefit, but them as well, market-wise. And i would love to see them grow more.

[entuland]

Originally posted by Au Revoir:

I feel you, man. I have recommended this game to a lot of friends/relatives you name it. Almost most of them are interested but cant play.

I still have my hopes up that Playful have something up their sleeves. Cause its not only me who'll benefit, but them as well, market-wise. And i would love to see them grow more.

Definitely. The switch to a 64bit client was surely a necessary one, but no one forces them to impose bells and whistles on all the players.

Having an additional quality item in that dropdown - renaming "Fastest" to "Fast", and making "Fastest" _really_ fast, with lesser polygons for all models, no effects whatsoever, no dimming, no fog, lower quality textures and whatnot would definitely increase their userbase. And in addition to that I'm pretty sure that if players could use the game on some cheaper machines some of them would be more than happy to throw in 20 bucks for additional PRO keys. I would purchase 4 keys straight away for my nephews if they could play this game without the need to get some bleeding-edge gaming laptop.

[Iroh]

Originally posted by entuland:

Originally posted by Au Revoir:

I feel you, man. I have recommended this game to a lot of friends/relatives you name it. Almost most of them are interested but cant play.

I still have my hopes up that Playful have something up their sleeves. Cause its not only me who'll benefit, but them as well, market-wise. And i would love to see them grow more.

Definitely. The switch to a 64bit client was surely a necessary one, but no one forces them to impose bells and whistles on all the players.

Having an additional quality item in that dropdown - renaming "Fastest" to "Fast", and making "Fastest" _really_ fast, with lesser polygons for all models, no effects whatsoever, no dimming, no fog, lower quality textures and whatnot would definitely increase their userbase. And in addition to that I'm pretty sure that if players could use the game on some cheaper machines some of them would be more than happy to throw in 20 bucks for additional PRO keys. I would purchase 4 keys straight away for my nephews if they could play this game without the need to get some bleeding-edge gaming laptop.

Yeah, having the ability to remove some of the effects would certainly help. In MC, the mod I use and the shaders are crazy resource intensive and I can't actually play with most of them on, so I just play it on "ugly" mode and then crank it all back up just for the screenshots lol

[Lil Puppy]

I built this computer in 2009 and it works just fine for the game at 30fps max everything.
Amd Phenom II X6 1090T black edition
Amd Radeon 5870 1gb
6gb ram (lost a 2gb stick a while ago)
Additionally I run it off a usb 3 flash drive for the read speeds.

There are a few optimizations they still have to do like Asynchronous background loading of chunks instead of interupting gameplay to pop it in (makes flying at speed really tough and causes the microstutter everyone complains about), additional graphics options that pretty much every non-mobile game on the planet has, and a bunch of other under-the-hood tweaks.

I feel they released it too soon but it's not my decision but it is feature incomplete at the moment.

If you're running this off an Intel integrated graphics card in a laptop I feel for you and there's nothing you can do about it but get another computer. PC games are designed for desktop components, keep that in mind when you buy another computer if you can.

[Au Revoir]

If you were reading, you wouldve seen that i was quite specific about its ram requirements. Youre doing fine cause you have 6g. But lemme tell you, 4g is already not enough. Plus i dont think it concerns more about gpu. Either way, game hangs often on my pc due to memory loss. I have 4g ram and it eats entirely through it. No other apps opened other than cv.