Game Insider #28: April '09 Newsletter

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Crazypirate

Doesn't the graphics level controls allow players with slower computers turn down the graphics to prevent lag? Why punish everyone to improve the game for a few?

Normally, i'd agree 100% with that statement.

Being a computer gameaholic, I have always strived for cutting edge hardware. And have run the game with dual highend ATI cards, running in Crossfire mode. Even then, this game tends to lag.. or at least did. Other games I play run in excess of 200+ frames a second in the wildest most stressful scenarios. I have since removed the extra card as I found they are highend enough to offer similar performance by themselves. Other games still run awesome, pirates still lagged.

Panda the graphics engine/coding used for POTCO is not the most efficient performance wise, however COST/Licensing wise I believe its free... IMO herein lies the problem. But to redo it all in a new engine would be a serious setback at this point.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by OFxZeppers

Panda the graphics engine/coding used for POTCO is not the most efficient performance wise, however COST/Licensing wise I believe its free... IMO herein lies the problem. But to redo it all in a new engine would be a serious setback at this point.

Yep, it's free.
They update the Panda 3D engine about once a year. At least from record it looks like once a year. It will probably take them another five years or so for the engine to be pretty efficient.

Diney made the engine themselves and after the previous posts in this thread I'm sure most of us know why.

Redoing the engine would really take away their time. All we can hope for is that with it's updates Panda will get better.