Slllooooowwww at high resolutions

[Mad Chemist]

G-Force is very slow at high resolutions as would be expected. My 6600gt set to 1920x1080. I know...reduce the scren resolution.
I'm running MCE on a 1080p LCD monitor with in my living room which makes it impracticle to switch resolutions just to view a vis. I don't really need that sort of resloution for G-Force but I watch alot of HDTV so I want to run 1080p. Plus, thats the native resolution of the monitor.
I see this becoming more and more of an issue has people buy higher resolution TVs. Can anything be done on the G-Force end such as pixel doubling to speed things up. The line width does little for me.

Thanks, Greg

[keycompton]

Can anything be done on the G-Force end such as pixel doubling to speed things up. The line width does little for me.

If you are using G-Force Gold or Platinum, you can use the G-Force Toolbar's advanced settings to turn on pixel doubling. You can also set G-Force to run in resolutions other than your native system resolution, but I believe that both Windows Media Player and Media Center ignore these settings (you may want to try the Standalone verion of G-Force).

[Mad Chemist]

My toolbar doesn't have a pixel doubling option. I can see on the screenshot on this website were it is:



But this is how mine looks:



Is this something I can manually add/change in a config file?

Thanks, Greg

[juxtiphi]

My toolbar doesn't have a pixel doubling option. I can see on the screenshot on this website were it is:



But this is how mine looks:



Is this something I can manually add/change in a config file?

Thanks, Greg

I am also missing the pixel doubling option in my toolbar.

[Mad Chemist]

I went back to 3.13 which was the last version I could find pixel doubling on. Made a big difference on my setup. Hopefully, this gets added back.

[Kostya]

Can anything be done on the G-Force end such as pixel doubling to speed things up. The line width does little for me.

If you are using G-Force Gold or Platinum, you can use the G-Force Toolbar's advanced settings to turn on pixel doubling. You can also set G-Force to run in resolutions other than your native system resolution, but I believe that both Windows Media Player and Media Center ignore these settings (you may want to try the Standalone verion of G-Force).

Hmm. I seem to remember that WMP API for visualization offers at least handle of the window. I believe one can smoothly scale whatever visualizer is rendering to that window using DirectX API. G-Force uses OGL but probably it can do the same thing with it as well if Andy decides to implement it.

[keycompton]

I went back to 3.13 which was the last version I could find pixel doubling on. Made a big difference on my setup. Hopefully, this gets added back.

Sorry about any confusion, please know that pixel doubling only works on G-Force 3.1.3 or before (prior to our use of OpenGL)... for releases 3.5 and later, please either use a lower full screen resolution or use the maximum height / width limits.

And thanks for pointing out that the screenshots on our site are out of date... we need to update these!

[andy55]

G-Force is very slow at high resolutions as would be expected. My 6600gt set to 1920x1080. I know...reduce the scren resolution.

My best recommendation is to set frame limits (using the GF toolbar). 1920x1080 is a shedload of pixels and basically no CPU can hack that (actually it's bus-limited, not CPU limited, but you get the point).

Andy

[juxtiphi]

I went back to 3.13 which was the last version I could find pixel doubling on. Made a big difference on my setup. Hopefully, this gets added back.

I have been informed that it was removed purposely, I dont know if its ever coming back.

although I didnt need iit.

[andy55]

Hmm. I seem to remember that WMP API for visualization offers at least handle of the window. I believe one can smoothly scale whatever visualizer is rendering to that window using DirectX API. G-Force uses OGL but probably it can do the same thing with it as well if Andy decides to implement it.

Supporting pixel doubling with OpenGL *and* full software mode would have added too much complexity and inflexibilty to our codebase for the time being.

[Mad Chemist]

My best recommendation is to set frame limits (using the GF toolbar). 1920x1080 is a shedload of pixels and basically no CPU can hack that (actually it's bus-limited, not CPU limited, but you get the point).

Andy

Thanks but that kinda defeats having a 46" monitor if I'm only using 30" of it

I'll stick with 3.1.3 for now. Works and looks great. Full screen and high framerate is much more important to me than the latest features. I listen mainly to EDM and the vis needs to react!

I've been using TwistedPixel with all the milkdrop presets here and there which gives great framerates especially with the mesh size set to 8x6. But I'm use to G-Force and milkdrop just doesn't look so great to me anymore.