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<FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.0px'>Actually for me it has not been the case, the more<BR>
ram I have given it, the better the performance<BR>
I see. But on the pc side, people have been<BR>
telling me that number does not matter, that<BR>
they heard it from one of the Epic guys, that<BR>
number does nothing to the game. Someone<BR>
from AA beta told me that, since if you look<BR>
at all the UT, UT2k3, and UT2k4 tweak sites<BR>
for the pc, they have always recommended this<BR>
number to be 3/4 of what your real ram is.<BR>
<BR>
But I have found that 1024 to be the max.<BR>
I tried to give it 2048, the max any one<BR>
app can have in OS X, and the game just<BR>
does not launch, this was with AA. I have<BR>
been happy with 1024 settings. Since<BR>
I always make this change, I figure I ask<BR>
Ryan to shed light on this settings if<BR>
it does make a difference or not, like<BR>
some of the pc users say.<BR>
<BR>
Cesar<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Jason Harris <jay.harris@mac.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>"postal2mac@icculus.org" <postal2mac@icculus.org><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sun, 23 May 2004 20:23:21 +0100<BR>
<B>To: </B>"postal2mac@icculus.org" <postal2mac@icculus.org><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [postal2mac] Tweaking the .ini<BR>
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Cesar <BR>
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I find that giving that much ram allocation to the engine cache really chokes the game (mac side anyway). I find that 256-512mb makes for a smoother experience. The VARSize does make a difference when running with high textures. One question for Ryan, will the next build support lightmap compression? I noticed that the cvar in the .ini is set to false just like AA. <BR>
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-Jason <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">On 23 May 2004, at 20:13, Cesar Barcenas wrote: <BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.0px'><FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Postal 2 is base on Unreal Engines. <BR>
You can always tweak and modify <BR>
your ini files. <BR>
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Look in your /Home/Library/Application Support/Postal 2/System/ <BR>
<BR>
You can modify both user and postal2 ini files. For custom <BR>
display resolution go to the following: <BR>
<BR>
[SDLDrv.SDLClient] <BR>
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And change the 2 number for full screen: <BR>
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FullscreenViewportX=1600 <BR>
FullscreenViewportY=1024 <BR>
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The above is for a 22" Apple cinema display. <BR>
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Also if you haven't done so, search for the line: <BR>
<BR>
VARSize=128 <BR>
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The number represents the amount of vram your <BR>
video card has. By default this is set <BR>
to 32, so if you have more than that <BR>
you will need to change it. <BR>
<BR>
Another tweak that I do, but maybe Ryan can <BR>
tell me more about it, since I have heard <BR>
that changing it does nothing to the game. <BR>
<BR>
[Engine.GameEngine] <BR>
CacheSizeMegs=1024 <BR>
<BR>
The number should be 3/4 of real ram you <BR>
have. So if you have 512, you should set <BR>
it to 384, and so on. <BR>
<BR>
Cesar <BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.0px'><FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">From: hotblack <hotblack@sietchtabr.plus.com> <BR>
Reply-To: "postal2mac@icculus.org" <postal2mac@icculus.org> <BR>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:39:29 +0100 <BR>
To: "postal2mac@icculus.org" <postal2mac@icculus.org> <BR>
Subject: Re: [postal2mac] First impressions <BR>
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On 23 May 2004, at 19:22, Ted Stalcup wrote: <BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.0px'><FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Radeon 7000 PCI, generic PC flashed with the latest Mac ROM. <BR>
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There's your problem. Graphical errors often crop up when using <BR>
flashed-from-PC or overclocked cards. <BR>
<BR>
There may be something that Ryan can tweak or fix, but I normally <BR>
using flashed cards is a no-no in terms of support from anyone for <BR>
anything, your taking your life into your own hands ;) <BR>
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Actually...turning down textures from high to medium does the same <BR>
thing on my bone stock Aibook with its Radeon 9600m, still get no <BR>
texture maps at anything other than high quality - Ted <BR>
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Ah, better throw it into bugzilla then - https://bugzilla.icculus.org/ <BR>
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Does anyone know of a way to force Postal to a particular display? <BR>
(Other than setting it as your main display) I've got a Radeon PCI as a <BR>
secondary PCI that I could test this problem on. <BR>
Cheers, <BR>
<BR>
Ben <BR>
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