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    Black Ops and Shader Warming

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by miahsoul, Jun 24, 2011.

  1. miahsoul

    miahsoul Notebook Deity

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    Ugh, I'm fed up and tired of this... Whenever I turn on Shader Warming, half the time I get kicked for being "inactive" or d/c due to EXTREMELY long loading times and when I turn it off it the load cuts down 10 fold but I get really bad fps lag spikes for the first minute of the game. Is there any fix to this yet, I mean the game's been out for 7 months and this stuff still isn't fixed yet. >.>

    Done basically all the MultiGPU/Threading, Priority, Config fixes out there but can't find a fix for this.

    Specs are below
     
    miahsoul, Jun 24, 2011
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  2. svl7

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    Haven't installed BO at the moment, but can't you simply disable shader warming in the graphic settings? At least that's what I remember.
     
    svl7, Jun 25, 2011
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  3. tuηay

    tuηay o TuNaY o

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    Dude,

    :)
     
    tuηay, Jun 25, 2011
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    niharjhatn Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry OP, but the game is absolutely broken. When I turn on shader warming, i also get extremely long boot times, and the last I played, I used to get terrible fps drops in certain areas of havana, cracked, and some other maps.... have they patched this at all?

    The only way I fixed this was dualbooting xp, but it isn't an ideal solution.
     
    niharjhatn, Jun 25, 2011
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  5. tuηay

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    Agreed,
    I stopped playing Black Ops after my stats got restet. I can't belive I wasted my time on that game..
     
    tuηay, Jun 25, 2011
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  6. niharjhatn

    niharjhatn Notebook Evangelist

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    I must say that I enjoyed SP, it was different from shooting nameless russians and arabs (cf. every other military shooter thats been released of the last 3 years).

    However, I didn't pay for a 5 hr campaign, I payed for MP, and the game disappointed me completely.

    On a different note, Modern Warfare 3 “Looking to Support Dedicated Servers” says Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling | GameFront

    Bowling says:

    Can't believe that it is only now that its "key" the game actually works on computers, and has turned into a selling point!

    EDIT: I know Bowling is from IW, and 3arc was Black ops, but they used virtually the same engine!
     
    niharjhatn, Jun 26, 2011
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