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[Immortal-D]

Someone I missed this game until recently.  Picked it up today, and I am blown away.  The manufacturing possibilities reminds me a lot of Minecraft's IndustrialCraft mods.  If anyone would like to muck about in Creative Mode (the Planets patch seems to have made stability a problem on an serious server), just drop me a line.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'll give you some imaginary points for that reference.

Thank you. I'll treasure them forever.

[tryrar]

I can no longer play this game.

The heat coming from my laptop while playing melted the end of my power cord, starting an electrical fire and nearly gave me a flaming vasectomy.

 

Please tell me you're joking

[TheDarkStar]

I really, really wish I was.

 

Yeah, maybe you should stop. Are you OK and is your laptop still usable?

[se5a]

that sounds more like a fault in the powercord or plug. if there was a bad connect there it could have heated up enough to do that.
heat from the game would have heated up the cpu and graphics chips, which would be cooled and the heat spread out.

That being said, the high load would have caused the problem with the cord/plug to be worse.

is it under warranty still?

[LoSboccacc]

Is there a mod or configuration that makes building stuff a tad easier without being full out creative?

Like my biggest gripe is not finding resources and installing parts, but having to build a frigate bringing two pipes at a time back and forth forever.

[NullForceOmega]

Two words: "WELDING SHIP."  Have a nice day.

[Mephisto]

Is there a mod or configuration that makes building stuff a tad easier without being full out creative?

Like my biggest gripe is not finding resources and installing parts, but having to build a frigate bringing two pipes at a time back and forth forever.

You can place items from cockpits, according to an update. Do so from NullForceOmega's WELDING SHIP.

[Paul]

Yeah a small agile welding ship goes a long way.

My most basic one that I always build asap is simply a cockpit with two welders and some thrusters.

[TheDarkStar]

Is there a mod or configuration that makes building stuff a tad easier without being full out creative?

Like my biggest gripe is not finding resources and installing parts, but having to build a frigate bringing two pipes at a time back and forth forever.

Other than a welding ship (which decreases the build time of ships by at least five times and probably more) you can also get mods that add welders with extended ranges.

[BurnedToast]

Well, I finally get a chance to try planet update out and.... planets require dx11. Not a good sign, but my card technically does support dx11 so I'll try it...

I load the game up, it takes ~8 minutes to load. I finally load, and I'm getting less than 1 fps. How low? I'm not sure, but it was something like 1 minute per frame, I damn near force closed it before the second frame rendered. Apparently I started in a ship that was in space, but all I saw was a view of the planet out the window, and by the time the game rendered the next frame the ship had hit the planet and was completely destroyed other than two random armor blocks sitting in a crater (I only survived because it was in creative mode).

Once on the planet, the fps was better.... but it was basically hovering between 1 - 2 fps. I dumped all the graphics settings to minimum, then dropped my resolution way down and got 8 - 10 fps  and graphics so bad it looked like I was playing an 8-bit nintendo game.

I was siting at a solid 60 UPS the whole time, which kind of gives me some hope that my computer can handle them and I just need a new video card, but I can't justify buying a new video card since every other game I own runs perfectly fine on the one I have.

I admit I was not expecting them to run perfect on my computer, but this is just...it's so bad. After all the hype and waiting, I can't even really play them at all.

[n9103]

Intel/Integrated graphics?

[Aklyon]

Intel/Integrated graphics?

The two are essentially the same thing.

[BurnedToast]

Intel/Integrated graphics?

Nope, radeon hd 5770

I know it's old but i can run almost every other game I've tried perfectly fine - the only exception I can think of is ARK which run notorious poorly... and even then after tweaking it I managed to run ARK much better than I can run SE planets

Also looking at benchmarks, my card is not really that bad compared to some of the cheaper low/mid end cards I've seen recommended to play SE on.

I mean, I'm not expecting 100 fps, or even 60 fps, I know it's old... but if I could at least get 30 fps so I could play without getting a headache I'd be happy enough.

[TheDarkStar]

I wouldn't be surprised if the next three or four patches focus almost entirely on making planets hurt performance less. I can play planets at just enough FPS that things usually look smooth (so 24-26), but I would get more like 30-50 without planets.