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geocab:

--- Quote from: Loafmeister on March 20, 2009, 10:35:53 am ---To anyone who's having speed issues, I can't say enough about the bolded section: turn off the advanced animations. The front end will still look great and run super well on a P4 2.4ghz.  This is well documented on the HS boards.

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Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of going to Hyperspin in the first place?  I thought its flashiness was its appeal.
Dazz:

--- Quote from: geocab on March 20, 2009, 09:12:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Loafmeister on March 20, 2009, 10:35:53 am ---To anyone who's having speed issues, I can't say enough about the bolded section: turn off the advanced animations. The front end will still look great and run super well on a P4 2.4ghz.  This is well documented on the HS boards.

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Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of going to Hyperspin in the first place?  I thought its flashiness was its appeal.

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In a way it does kill the effect, but not by much.  I honestly don't even notice them anymore when switching games.  But turning them off on lesser machines can have a big impact as to how HyperSpin can function on them.
DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: geocab on March 20, 2009, 09:12:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Loafmeister on March 20, 2009, 10:35:53 am ---To anyone who's having speed issues, I can't say enough about the bolded section: turn off the advanced animations. The front end will still look great and run super well on a P4 2.4ghz.  This is well documented on the HS boards.

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Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of going to Hyperspin in the first place?  I thought its flashiness was its appeal.

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Not really.  The transitions, to me, are the least important part of list navigation.

I'm running Hyperspin on a P4 2.6Ghz processor with 1 Gig or RAM and with the advanced animations turned off, it runs quite well (Arcade VGA video card as well).   Even with a faster computer, I may leave them off just because the list moves much faster instead of waiting for transitions to finish.

Loafmeister:

--- Quote from: geocab on March 20, 2009, 09:12:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Loafmeister on March 20, 2009, 10:35:53 am ---To anyone who's having speed issues, I can't say enough about the bolded section: turn off the advanced animations. The front end will still look great and run super well on a P4 2.4ghz.  This is well documented on the HS boards.

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Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of going to Hyperspin in the first place?  I thought its flashiness was its appeal.

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The other lads responded well, I'll just add that we're talking about a couple of CPU background transitions (and maybe a few partical effects?  Not sure, Dazz and the others could better answer).  You really don't notice them. Your themes "characters" still pan into the frame the same way, your video is still there, no graphics are degraded. To give you an example of a big save: one annoying effect is the background falls in and the CPU intensive effect is that it blurs.  It's a cool effect but it really does nothing for the theme, I can live without it. That's probably the one effect that kills my PC and the Hyperspin experience, once it's removed everything seems fine.
MiKman:
So a high end graphics card won't help with any of the transitions/animations, instead you need more CPU?  Just curious if better gfx board will make any difference.
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