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Sonic Generations: PC Discussion


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Ah...you were only testing it on the Atom, I did something like that too, tested the game on my 5 year old laptop (Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz, Mobility Radeon X1600) and it ran at like 10~15fps at the lowest resolution and settings. tongue.png

The way you said this I was thinking that the Atom was your main PC. ^^;

Well, there's so many people that complain about Generations not running well in awful PCs, it's kinda normal I thought this way (for example, someone complaining about Generations not running in an Intel GMA, saying that SEGA has to fix the game to run on it).

Also the problem is that the how far the graphics card should display the 3d areas and how far it should is that mines doesn't handle very well and its not about the graphics.

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I always find that everything fails on my laptop, no exceptions. Not seen the PC version on sale yet so I haven't been able to test mine anyway. :/

Also hi Motwera.

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I run Generations in 1080p at a solid 60fps without any issues whatsoever.

In my defense, it is a very good laptop.

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As a quick confirmation: Generations will run on PCs with Windows Experience Index base scores of 4.6 or higher; I tested it on a friend's laptop a few day ago, and at the absolute bare minimum resolution and graphical detail, it ran at playable frame rates and still managed to look awesome.

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As a quick confirmation: Generations will run on PCs with Windows Experience Index base scores of 4.6 or higher; I tested it on a friend's laptop a few day ago, and at the absolute bare minimum resolution and graphical detail, it ran at playable frame rates and still managed to look awesome.

Can people please stop confusing the Windows Experience Index with some sort of PC hardware ranking? Because it isn't. The WEI is strictly a system ranking based of how your system runs the Aero theme and other windows features (Windows features being the keyword). Since the index score is always the lowest of your total hardware ranking, the index is not suitable for ranking system performance on games (also since none of the tests have anything to do with the type of performance needed in games).

For the record, my laptop scores a 3.6 for the WIE, only because of the hard-disk access times (because laptop hard-disks are slower). Now do you want to try and tell me my laptop can't run Generations with everything cranked to the highest possible settings?

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As a quick confirmation: Generations will run on PCs with Windows Experience Index base scores of 4.6 or higher; I tested it on a friend's laptop a few day ago, and at the absolute bare minimum resolution and graphical detail, it ran at playable frame rates and still managed to look awesome.

Edward850 is right, my laptop scored a 4.6 in Windows Experience Index however, only because of "Graphics for Windows Aero". Sonic Generations on my laptop has no framerate issues what so ever, and it can play it in the highest possible settings.

If you REALLY want to know if Sonic Generations can be playable (and other games) on your laptop/computer you should go here: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/

That site will give you accurate details that if Generations can be able to run on your PC.

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As a quick confirmation: Generations will run on PCs with Windows Experience Index base scores of 4.6 or higher; I tested it on a friend's laptop a few day ago, and at the absolute bare minimum resolution and graphical detail, it ran at playable frame rates and still managed to look awesome.

One of my other PC's rate 5.1 but its laggy as heck, and its pretty new. so I don't think that will work.

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Got the game yesterday. It runs at around 24-30 some FPS with just it and Steam running. Anything else brings it down a lot due to it using up most of my CPU.

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So I already said that we need some kind of tool to configure the distance view of how much the area it can view:

Please show my request to Sonicretro community, people.

they need to make a config tool of changing the view distance because this is what causes the game to lag.

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I actually picked this up on steam deals. Outside of a few random crashes in chemical plant the game runs better than it did on 360....on my laptop. Still slowdowns and framerate isn't always 60 fps, but I was pleasantly surprised with my laptop's performance.

Does anyone have issues with record saving in the online modes? It takes forever to retrieve friend info, then when I am finally happy with my 30 second runs it doesn't save at all.

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it does save your records. However it doesn't show up on the main menu for certain stages, for whatever reason. Check the leaderboards and see if they show up there.

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Nope, haven't had that problem...yet. The problem I have is that on Steam, they have an article from Kotaku saying that the Casino Night DLC was supposed to be available to PC the Monday after Christmas...I'm still waiting.

Speaking of Christmas, I upgraded to an Intel Core i5 2500K. Any lag from my past AMD processor was reduced to neglegible frame drops. I still have a few rare occasions where the controls will either delay for a second or if I hit a button once, it thinks I pressed it twice...and they all end in me falling in a bottomless pit. Coincidence? Maybe I'm just that bad...

Oh, and I hope this is OK to ask but to all you fellow UK Sonic fans out there, can anyone post a high-res picture of the PC box art?

Edit: Nevermind the request, I had some spare time over the past few days...so I made one.

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post-3524-0-75451200-1325917104_thumb.jp

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I'll be honest: I expected the Perfect Chaos fight to lag like hell because a lot more stuff is going on than the previous stages. Thankfully, it was at the same frame-rate the stages were.

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Anyone running this game at 60fps and a resolution of at least 1280x1024, could you post your specs, what kind of computer you have, etc?

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Anyone running this game at 60fps and a resolution of at least 1280x1024, could you post your specs, what kind of computer you have, etc?

i5-2400 @ 3.10GHz

MSI P67A-GD55

GTX 460 1GB SC

4GB Ram

1920x1080 at 60fps with anti-aliasing.

Shadow Quality: High

Reflection Quality: High

V-Sync: On

However, I'm looking to replace my motherboard soon. One of the PCI-E slots is faulty and I really want to combine two video cards through SLI. I wanna emulate some Wii games, dammit!

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Anyone running this game at 60fps and a resolution of at least 1280x1024, could you post your specs, what kind of computer you have, etc?

AMD Athlon X3 440 @ 3.0 GHz

4 GB RAM

GeForce GTS 450 (1 GB)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 v2.0

Running the game on max settings, works perfect (well except for common lagging in some Chemical Plant areas).

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I've tried forcing anisotropic filtering in Sonic Adventure DX but for some reason I forgot about trying it in Generations.

Speed Highway no AF - http://img338.images...highwaynoaf.jpg

Speed Highway 16x AF - http://img37.imagesh...ighway16xaf.jpg

City Escape no AF - http://img208.images...yescapenoaf.jpg

City Escape 16x AF - http://img215.images...escape16xaf.jpg

For those who don't see the differences in the pictures or don't know what anisotropic filtering does, it makes the far away textures clearer, try to compare the marks in the ground to see the difference.

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