OT: To the people having laaaag problems in Boiling Point

[DarkLeftos]

Doing a search in GameFAQs, I found a tweaked game.ini which by many users' feedback has been reported to make the game have no or very little lag in systems even below the MINIMUM specifications.

You can download it here:

http://www.koevis.demon.nl/GAME.rar

Make sure to backup your game.ini file inside your Boiling Point directory before extracting the one in the archive.

Some additional notes, having 512 or 768 MB of RAM can really do bad in the game. This game requires 1-2gigs of RAM to play on the highest standard. A little trick would be to raise Minimum and Maximum Page File to 1500-2000MBs (if you have that much space left on your disk.) Don't ask me on how to do that, use Windows Help for once!

Try these and tell me if it works.

Sorry for the off-topic mods, feel free to move it.

[peogeot]

sure 1-2 gigs ram...my god.....i got only 640 mg and it worked......

[Grumpy]

@peogeot
So what you are saying is with only 640mgs of Ram you can play Boiling Point with 'all' the settings turned on to 'Full' or Max! I seriously doubt it!

[peogeot]

yeah maybe i didnt mean that...... i was saying that you dont need 1-2 gigs ram to play this game....this game dont look cool if you got newest pc....cars looks awful in this game....there is many better games than boiling and with less bugs.....

[Jedo]

The ini file is interesting. I'm trying to figure out the changes and what strikes me is that I've seen several ini files told to be "improving" performance. Some of them had the cache options (closer to the end of the page) set higher then normal and this one has it seems lower than normal.

[DarkLeftos]

Ahem...

Quoting myself, I said that 1-2gigs are needed to play on the "highest standard." I managed to get the game to play "pretty good" on 512MB, but I just got another 512, and I'll test it now.

EDIT: Yap... More RAM did the trick. No lag, except little once in a while.

[bierhuettl]

its not all about the ram.

i got

athlon xp 2500+
1 gig ddr ram
gf4 ti4200 deluxe

i set everything to ****ing minimum and did all game.ini tweaks i was able to find. didnt test your game.ini though.

it works smoothly, but simply hacks for a second about every 20 secs or so... so the problem is the ****ed-up data loading tech boiling point uses. well one of my friends got a 7200rpm hd, installed the game on that and it made the same **** like on mine pc. then he installed it on his 36gig western digital raptor 10000rpm and - wow - it works fine, simply because its faster.

will try your game.ini anyway, even if i do not believe it will change anything. sucks. game could be great.

[peogeot]

Too much bugs too much freaking bugs.....

[hyakki]

runs fine on my pc with everything on predefined very high and aa set to 2x(not the "custom setting" with all the sliders to high cause that can kill any ones pc :O)

my pc spec are
installed game on (2 sata 150 maxtor drives) raid 0 - (also have swap file set at a fixed 3-3 Gigs on raid 0 drive i think hdd performace might be most importaint factor in this game)
1024 gigs ram (pc3200)
Intel 3.2 Ghz HT
geforce 6800 GT

runs great for a few hours untill my swap file fills to max then i will notice a few jitters

this game sure is addicting ..when i first started it i was almost dissapointed but i got hooked :O

[peogeot]

Yeah it would be better if there be less bug in this game.....and this aint very long game...i played trough about 10 - 15 hours......still waiting s.t.a.l.k.e.r and GTA: San Andreas......

[peogeot]

Nobodys got 1-2 gigs ram....i got only 640 mg and it worked.....yeah you have that kind of pc but i got Amd Xp 1800+ , 640 ram , Ati Radeon 9800 pro , Audigy 2 ZS , 160 gigs hardrive.....it worked fine in my pc.......some places......this game needs goddamm fast pc.....GTA will work in slow end machines but this boiling aint....

[Eagle]

I have 2GB of Ram and BP still lags/stutters sometimes.
However its a great game

[DarkLeftos]

I have to agree with Eagle, it's a great game.

And I mean, sure the game doesn't got a good loading technique, but it's the developer's like first or second game, give them a brake, I'm sure they're doing their best to fix those problems.

And for god's sake, I don't have all Options on Very High, but I can still enjoy the game, it's not all about eye-candy.

[mx3]

Originally Posted by bierhuettl

its not all about the ram.

i got

athlon xp 2500+
1 gig ddr ram
gf4 ti4200 deluxe

i set everything to ****ing minimum and did all game.ini tweaks i was able to find. didnt test your game.ini though.

i have nearly the same:
athlon xp 2600+
1 gig ddr ram
gf4 ti4200

and works here just fine if i put everyting on minimum i only had some problems with my driver but thats it... (and all the bugs in game offcourse)

[Catweazel]

Yep, they have a very poor texture loading scheme..

To elaborate :

I was running on 512mb Athlon 2500, Radeon 9700 Pro, and was experiencing VERY laggy play.

Running around looking at the ground the game ran at full framerate, but as soon as I raised my head it was like running thru treacle. The graphics, whilst nice, are nothing to overly stress my videocard to this extent - so something was amiss..

Deep-Shadow helpfully (accidentally?) left all their debugging symbols on the DVD, so I booted up the game in Dev Studio - and every time the game lagged, it coincided with a load of..

"C++ exception..blah"
"Loading Texture..blah-blah"

..messages in the debugger.

I then looked at the "precache.txt" file in the game directory, and noticed that on all memory configurations of 768mb - 2048mb+ it ensures that a huge bunch of textures are loaded into main memory.

To conclude - the game has a really poor pre-emptive loading scheme. Most well-written games will load up the textures & models it needs several seconds before it actually has to render them.. But this game doesn't load its textures until it actually comes to drawing them.. If the texture is not on the graphics card or in main memory, then a C++ exception is raised when it comes to rendering an object. The exception is then caught and the texture/model is loaded.. Hence why a faaaaast or defragged HD might make things a bit better.

Anyway, I liked the game so much that I upgraded to 1.5gigs ram - and hey presto, silky smooth gameplay.

Hope this helps
CW