Optimizing your Experience with Forged Alliance - It works

[KD7BCH]

I couldn't test last night effectively. Seems nobody wants to play with new players. I only got in on three game out of about 10 attempts, nothing lasted longer than 20 minutes. Lots and lots of restarts. If a game doesn't get going and working well in 3 attempts I cut my losses and look for another group to play with.

[-_V_-]

lol ?


Don't you think that it would be more meaningful to test on a replay file (heavy and long game) twice and check if you get any improvement in the time it takes to replay the game at max speed?

How do you compare without a common reference ?

[KD7BCH]

Don't I have to make a replay with lots of units?

[VoiceofReason]

I'm glad some people took the time for themselves instead of listening to all the nay-sayers. Also, to the people with early gen I7s that yell at everyone else with slow CPUs; Join a phantom now and then, you'll probably have the worse cpu score of everyone
Regardless of what your running, there is always room for a little bit of improvement, and sometimes - Much more.

Experimentation, trial and error.... FTW!

[Ionic]

I agree this gives ~3% boost, I will add to the thread. Obviously, this will be below buy a new computer.

[VoiceofReason]

I agree this gives ~3% boost, I will add to the thread. Obviously, this will be below buy a new computer.

hehe no doubt about the new PC, or giving your CPU a decent Overclocking.
For me personally though, it just makes the game feel ridiculously smoother when there are insane amounts of things happening - like ASF dog fights, or 1000s of frigates destroyers, and battleships all pricking & pounding away on each other; there are a few more scenarios where I feel I've noticed an improvement of game behaviour, and response but I don't want to make too crazy and wild of claims

[rxnnxs]

i did some benchmarks with the replay from this thread:
http://forums.faforever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3046

it did not change much (for a i7-4790)
at minute 2 the times is ar about 2:11 to 2:14
i started right away so that the time is in the beginning the same: 30=30, 1=1min and 1:30=1:30 all the time..

if you want to try a quick changer, take this:
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/consulting/processutil/processutil.htm

put the process.exe in the windows/programs32 and it is found anywhere..

batch (i.e. start.bat)
could look like this:
process -a forgedalliance.exe 11111110
process -p forgedalliance.exe high

before starting this batch, forged alliance has to run out of FAF of course.
so those who profit from it, it can be one quick click.
have fun!

[-_V_-]

http://retired.beyondlogic.org/consulting/processutil/processutil.htm

put the process.exe in the windows/programs32 and it is found anywhere..

batch (i.e. start.bat)
could look like this:
process -a forgedalliance.exe 11111110
process -p forgedalliance.exe high!

Oh very nice. Thx. I was looking for something automatic entirely but this ain't bad at all for now.

[rxnnxs]

it gets even better:
do this in a batch file (the pause is there only to check if it works):

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process -a forgedalliance.exe 11111110
process -p forgedalliance.exe high
pause

then after batch creation, make a shortcut/link to your desktop.
go inside the shortcut and set a key-combination.
when you start the game, make "windows+D" to go to the desktop (the shortcut works not everywhere..)
then press your shortcut, then go back into game.

[-_V_-]

ACtually I had this set already, even with the pause

EDIT : Also I tried to put it as a shortcut in the taskbar, but it won't get there. Would be even better.
I guess my only option is to encapsulate the call to the shortcut in an "empty" exe shell.