Optimizing Fallout Tactics

[sephiroth_duck]

Now, i know i already created a thread asking you how i could specifically increase performance on my machine, so i thought i'd create this one so we could share the various ways in which we've been able to enhance FT's framerate and whatnot. So far i've heard from some that running the FT Booster helps, as well as defragging and upgrading to version 1.27

as of right now, im running version 1.13 with FT Booster (which doesnt seem to be a good idea... it really feels like running 1.13 with the booster actually slows things down considerably... so i wouldnt recommend it)

furthermore, now that my original cd's have been destroyed by the excessive disc swapping im reduced to playing the game off of backup cds... for which there is no "NO-cd patch" for anything but version 1.13

if you've managed to do things which have increased your Fallout Tactics performance, do us all a favor and share, because is much too brilliant a game to be playing it this bogged down.

 

[alec]

If you've managed to do things which have increased your Fallout Tactics performance, do us all a favor and share, because is much too brilliant a game to be playing it this bogged down.

I'm playing a new game of Fallout Tactics right now and I haven't used the patch either since I want to use the duplication bug. The framerate got poorer once I reached Newton (if I remember correctly), but it is still playable and it doesn't bother me much. Has to do with the size of the maps, I suppose.

The best way to increase performance is to upgrade. I used to play the game on a system with 128MB, now I play it on a system with 256MB and the performance is a lot better.

Other ideas: full install (instead of small or medium), lower the resolution, don't use the anti-aliased option etcetera.

 

[JJ86]

More RAM is the quickest way to increase the performance. It is cheap now anyways so max it out for the motherboard.