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Rawtoast wrote:

I've been playing Cortex Command for a good while now. Dropships take about 20 seconds to arrive, walking is absurd, and many guns have such long reload times that I just never really bother with them. At least, that all used to be true. This morning while playing a normal skirmish, all of a sudden everything changed. The whole game got much faster - dropships came in the appropriate 3 seconds, walking is almost exciting, and a whole new range of weaponry has become practical. I don't understand any of it. I think I hit some button or something by accident. I have no idea what happened; all I know is that I have no more lag and the game is infinitely more fun.

Author:	Rawtoast [ Sat May 09, 2009 9:03 pm ]
Post subject:	Magic - No More Lag in CC
I've been playing Cortex Command for a good while now. Dropships take about 20 seconds to arrive, walking is absurd, and many guns have such long reload times that I just never really bother with them. At least, that all used to be true. This morning while playing a normal skirmish, all of a sudden everything changed. The whole game got much faster - dropships came in the appropriate 3 seconds, walking is almost exciting, and a whole new range of weaponry has become practical. I don't understand any of it. I think I hit some button or something by accident. I have no idea what happened; all I know is that I have no more lag and the game is infinitely more fun.

Author:	Mind [ Sat May 09, 2009 9:07 pm ]
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Rawtoast wrote: I've been playing Cortex Command for a good while now. Dropships take about 20 seconds to arrive, walking is absurd, and many guns have such long reload times that I just never really bother with them. At least, that all used to be true. This morning while playing a normal skirmish, all of a sudden everything changed. The whole game got much faster - dropships came in the appropriate 3 seconds, walking is almost exciting, and a whole new range of weaponry has become practical. I don't understand any of it. I think I hit some button or something by accident. I have no idea what happened; all I know is that I have no more lag and the game is infinitely more fun. Pretty sure thats ctrl+o

Author:	Brainwashed [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:42 am ]
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What does control+o do, exactly?

Author:	nnninja [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:49 am ]
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Same thing is happening to me.

Author:	mail2345 [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:50 am ]
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Changes it from slow mo to frame skip.

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Author:	zalo [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:51 am ]
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It turns off the fancy dynamic time feature. By default, if things get laggy, things go into slow-mo. If you hit Ctrl+O then it turns into standard choppy-ness.

Author:	Duh102 [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:52 am ]
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Looks like I've been ninja'd. Here's a slightly more complete explanation. When you first start Cortex b22, Mac, or IGF, it is in framerate conservative mode. This slows down the timescale of your game in order to preserve a good framerate and prevent things skipping across the screen. Ctrl+O switches it to realtime mode, which does the opposite and forgoes framerate to play the game at 1.00x timescale.

Author:	411570N3 [ Sun May 10, 2009 5:27 am ]
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Would this produce the same sinking through the floor problem as messing with the Settings.ini values?

Author:	Duh102 [ Sun May 10, 2009 11:37 am ]
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411570N3 wrote: sinking through the floor problem Nope. For this, you're not changing the physics, but the timeframe in which they're calculated and rendered. Framerate conservative mode utilizes that special slowdown thing that Data made to slow down the physics calculations and keep the framerate reasonable. 1.00x timescale runs the physics as close to realtime as possible at the expense of rendering time.

Author:	Rawtoast [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:01 pm ]
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Ooooo - neat! The game is TOTALLY different now. It's great.

Author:	Geti [ Sun May 10, 2009 1:47 pm ]
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am i the only one who prefers it with timescaling on? i cant stand anything getting choppy <_<

Author:	Duh102 [ Sun May 10, 2009 2:01 pm ]
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I always use timescale mode, unless I'm taking gifs.

Author:	TheLastBanana [ Sun May 10, 2009 4:52 pm ]
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If I use anything other than timescale mode, it lags like hell.

Author:	mail2345 [ Sun May 10, 2009 5:37 pm ]
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Same here. Aparrently, I'm running on average at 0.4~x timescale.

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Author:	Flammablezombie [ Sun May 10, 2009 5:50 pm ]
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I prefer it with timescaling off, unless I use the PIGRAM.