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[anon2501]

Rogue Jedi, on 16 December 2014 - 06:31 AM, said:

I am sorry but it looks like an issue with your internet connection, you are downloading about 5 GB of data, and that ammount of time for the download suggests you are downloading at about 1 Megabit.

if you are paying for a connection significantly better than that I suggest running a broadband speed test to confirm what sort of speeds you are getting before contacting your Internet provider.

A complete reinstall usually takes me less than an hour in the UK with a 30Mb connection.

Just checked with another installer (War Thunder, 9Gb), i't was downloaded in 15 mins. uT also running good. Just in case set port triggering for launcher and cut off all wireless clients.

[Neutronium]

I can't seem to equip the right ammo for my Ultra AC/5. Apparently AC/5 ammo isn't the type of used for an Ultra AC/5, I keep getting a You have 'unused ammo' and 'no ammo loaded' warning.

Edited by Neutronium, 16 December 2014 - 07:03 AM.

[Rogue Jedi]

Eonai, on 16 December 2014 - 05:46 AM, said:

Suggestions on an IS Heavy/Assault that has good DPS at mid range? I was never good with slow mechs, but a clan Assault rush made my usual lights feel less useful.

I was thinking of getting a Jager and using AC5s, but seeing as the King Crab comes out for C Bills on Monday, I figure I may as well save up for that for drop weight effeciency. My current drop deck is a Raven 4X, a K2, an FS9-A, and a 3L.

the King Crab is now available for MC but I was under the impression it will be the 20th of January before it is available for cbills
http://mwomercs.com/...ailable-for-mc/

for mid range DPS a Jagermech or Cataphract would work.

I prefer Lights but a Battlemaster with an XL400 feals good and still mounts 6ML, an ERLL and an LB10x with acceptable cooling, near max armor and 83KPH (with speed tweek).

[xeromynd]

Is it possible to break a permanent contract?

[DEMAX51]

xeromynd, on 16 December 2014 - 07:19 AM, said:

Is it possible to break a permanent contract?

Yes, but from what I understand it costs a serious amount of C-Bills.

[anon2501]

anon2501, on 16 December 2014 - 06:50 AM, said:

Just checked with another installer (War Thunder, 9Gb), i't was downloaded in 15 mins. uT also running good. Just in case set port triggering for launcher and cut off all wireless clients.

After googling and vpn's magic discovered that this kind of trouble persists from 2013. Well, with this connection it will take a while.

[Redshift2k5]

anon2501, on 16 December 2014 - 05:56 AM, said:

Horribly slow download speed. Launcher claiming that he will download data for >7 hrs. Cleaned up registry and possible traces from previous installs. Now it's 9 hours. Wheres problem? Network normal.

I wonder where you are?

The distributed system behaves differently than a direct download from one server or from a peer-to-peer network; MWO sends the download out to local nodes, but only when requested; if you're the first person in an area to download the files, it takes longer because that local node doesn't have a copy.

[Reno Blade]

anon2501, on 16 December 2014 - 06:50 AM, said:

Just checked with another installer (War Thunder, 9Gb), i't was downloaded in 15 mins. uT also running good. Just in case set port triggering for launcher and cut off all wireless clients.

To add to Redshifts answer:
depending on your region, and the number of people in the same region that downloaded a patch (or full game) it might be slower.
If you are the first in your region the download will be very slow.

I experiences very slow downloads as well for some of the latest patches and sometimes I just come back a day later (because patch time is usually 10pm here, so waiting 3h is not feasible for me) and it downloads like 5 minutes.

[TheCaptainJZ]

Neutronium, on 16 December 2014 - 07:01 AM, said:

I can't seem to equip the right ammo for my Ultra AC/5. Apparently AC/5 ammo isn't the type of used for an Ultra AC/5, I keep getting a You have 'unused ammo' and 'no ammo loaded' warning.

There is a separate ultra a 5 ammo. The two do not mix.

[ColonelProctor]

Question concerning button mapping. Is it possible to make the mouse scroll wheel your zoom when you roll it forwards and in zoom backwards leaving pressing the button itself down as a weapon group firer?

[Othello]

ColonelProctor, on 17 December 2014 - 03:56 AM, said:

Question concerning button mapping. Is it possible to make the mouse scroll wheel your zoom when you roll it forwards and in zoom backwards leaving pressing the button itself down as a weapon group firer?

Yes, you can map the mousewheel up/down to your zoom commands. The mouse button press is seen differently as "mouse3" if I recall, so you can also map your weapon group.

[GreyNovember]

Is there anything you can do about framerate jumping from 30 to 6 when fighting starts?

All of my settings are at the absolute minimum, and I was wondering if there were any other things I could tweak; be it about MWO or my Laptop.

[Rogue Jedi]

Eonai, on 17 December 2014 - 05:07 AM, said:

Is there anything you can do about framerate jumping from 30 to 6 when fighting starts?

All of my settings are at the absolute minimum, and I was wondering if there were any other things I could tweak; be it about MWO or my Laptop.

sorry, not a short answer

possibly reduce resolution,
have you gone into advanced graphics settings and ensured all of the settings are off or low?


what are your PC specs (CPU, RAM, Graphics card, Hard drive/SSD)?

restart your PC, press the buttons [ctrl] [shift] and [esc] simultaneously, this will bring up task manager, switch to the performance tab, see how much RAM you are using, if you are using more than about 2gb then freeing some up may help, go to the applications tab, considering you have only opened task manager there should be nothing on the applications tab, if this is not the case then you have some programs starting with your PC slowing it down, exit hose programs before launching MWO to free up memory.
next go to the processers tab, this will have a list of background programs that start up with your PC and are using up power, some of these will be required for Windows to run, others may be slowing your PC down, if any seem to be using a lot of RAM or CPU research them to see if they are required if not you can disable them:
press the start button then type in "msconfig" without the quotation marks then press enter
goto the startup tab, then untick the unneeded entry, if it is not there go to the services tab, and untick it there, after going through all the entries that are taking up a significant amount of RAM or CPU click OK, the computer will then ask for permission to restart, do so.
After the restart again press ctrl shift esc to start task manager and compare to how it was after the last restart

virtual ram may help (but probably not much),
open up your file browser (Windows explorer) right click on "My computer" or "This PC" to the left of the window,
select properties,
click on advanced system settings,
goto performance,
then the advanced tab,
click change under virtual memory,
untick automatically detect settings,
select custom size, if on 32bit set it to 4096 (4 GB, the maximum a 32bit OS can use) initial and maximum, if you have a 64bit copy of windows you can set to a higher number

if you do not already have one an SSD may help, but will probably be a lot of work to fit and copy your windows installation over, and can be quite expensive

More RAM may help

Edited by Rogue Jedi, 17 December 2014 - 06:52 AM.

[GreyNovember]

Rogue Jedi, on 17 December 2014 - 06:15 AM, said:

possibly reduce resolution,
have you gone into advanced graphics settings and ensured all of the settings are off or low?


what are your PC specs?

All settings at low, Lowest resolution, and running DX9. Set MWO to task priority to high.

Using an MSI FX420. http://www.pcmag.com...,2385510,00.asp

I have an Asus 550L that runs MWO fine, but I'm curious if I can get this laptop to be more playable.

[Reno Blade]

Eonai, on 17 December 2014 - 06:24 AM, said:

All settings at low, Lowest resolution, and running DX9. Set MWO to task priority to high.

Using an MSI FX420. http://www.pcmag.com...,2385510,00.asp

I have an Asus 550L that runs MWO fine, but I'm curious if I can get this laptop to be more playable.

So these are the specs, right?

Quote

SPEC DATA:
MSI FX420-001US
Type: General Purpose, Media
Processor Name: Intel Core i5-2410M
Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
RAM: 6 GB
Storage Capacity (as Tested): 500 GB
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics
Screen Size: 14 inches
Weight: 4.72 lb
Screen Type: Widescreen
Native Resolution: 1366 x 768
2nd Graphics Card: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6470M
2nd Graphics Memory: 1024
Rotation Speed: 5400 rpm

First make sure that the game runs with your 2nd Graphics card and not the onboard Intel HD.

You have a quite slow CPU (usual for Laptops) and it seems to be a dual core CPU.
MWO is a quad-core optimised game, where dual cores already had/have problems.

CPU power is sometimes more important than a newer graphics card in games like MWO.
Laptops don't make for a great MWO gaming device most times.

I'm running a PC with i5-3570K (3.6GHz) and a GTX 770 OC (2GB VRAM) and 16GB Ram and my game (on max) runs between 50 and 120fps since upgrading my graphics card from a GTX560Ti, where I had 30-55 fps on max.
I will use my working laptop over the holidays which will probably be quite bad compared to my PC

[Nick Makiaveli]

Eonai, on 17 December 2014 - 06:24 AM, said:

All settings at low, Lowest resolution, and running DX9. Set MWO to task priority to high.

Using an MSI FX420. http://www.pcmag.com...,2385510,00.asp

I have an Asus 550L that runs MWO fine, but I'm curious if I can get this laptop to be more playable.

In addition to what others have said, I've actually gotten better results on my desktop by raising the settings. Things may have changed, but in some cases MWO will shift the load from the GPU to the CPU which will further bog it down. It's worth experimenting with.

In either case, download (all free) CCleaner and Degraggler. CCleaner had several uses, but the primary ones for your purpose will be to clean out the registry (this is the ONLY program I've ever used that didn't cause problems which is a relief as I used to clean the registry manually which is a horrible pain) as well as easily identify programs that are launching in the background (such as MS Office, Adobe products etc) which eat up memory and CPU cycles). Defraggler is a awesome tool for defragmenting the hard drive. It even will allow you to specify certain file or folders and only defrag them, though I just run it weekly. You can also have it move large files (such as movies etc) to the end of the HD to optimize seek times for other programs.

[Jaegerwulf]

does the dps shown in the weapon listings at smurfy take heat dissipation into account?

[Redshift2k5]

Jaegerwulf, on 17 December 2014 - 07:54 PM, said:

does the dps shown in the weapon listings at smurfy take heat dissipation into account?

Yes, but I'm not sure on the details. You can see for yourself if you take a stock mech in the smurfy mechlab and switch from SHS to DHS without changing weapons, just changing the heat sinks will cause the DPS rating to go up and down.

[Jaegerwulf]

how important is maxing out armor on a mech one plans to use for CW?

[Redshift2k5]

Jaegerwulf, on 17 December 2014 - 08:35 PM, said:

how important is maxing out armor on a mech one plans to use for CW?

Armor is pretty important! CW is an even longer match, and ends to run a fairly long ranged phase as groups try to "soften up" the enemy before moving in to mop up. You see a lot of players aiming for legs, so you need to think about near-max leg armor too