Aliens: Colonial Marines is a squad-based first-person shooter in which the player controls four Colonial Marines, each with a different personality and primary weapon. Each player character can carry additional weapons including a flamethrower, pulse rifle, smartgun, pistol, RPG, and many types of grenades. The player controls one marine at a time, issues orders to the others using context-sensitive commands, and may switch between characters at any time.
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Mod to make Colonial Marines very well optimised for older computers by lowering graphics budgets and disabling some intensive things like bloom and motion blur.
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What? Old computers have trouble running this game? The graphics are bad enough as it is already!!
Yep, but believe it or not a couple of my friends were having performance issues so I made them this.
You don´t need to set ervery effect to "false", to make A:CM smoother. A:CN got a fps block.
Just set the fps up to 120. My oldest rig got a dual core and a geforce 9800 with Win XP. The game runs with 60 - 80 fps on this old machine (with the 120 fps tweak). But even my eeePC can run A:CM wit 35 fps, with all updates. ;-)
How old are the rigs of your friends?
BTW....if you got 4 GB of RAM (or more), disabel the pagefile in Windows to get a performence boost. Old or slow HDD´s causes stuttering in game. This is a old known glitch by UR3 games. It got nothing to do with the CPU or the GPU.
I'm not sure of my friend's setups, but a couple are pretty awful and this mod has helped them to be able to play at a good fps and not lag in game.
Intel HD Graphics springs to mind...
Ok?!?...my eePC got a Intel "GPU"...it´s a very, very, very slow and 8 years old gfx unit. I can run the game with 35 fps on 720p. I´ll tried your setting. The games looks totaly $hity (to the stocked) and the fps is still 35. Man, you killed the dynamic lights and every effect! And the textures looks like washed out. No one wanna play a game in this poor quality. Not even the biggest Alien nerd! :-)
I mean, A:CM stocked looked allready like a PS2 game. You can run this game with a fancy 50 bugs rig.
Maybe your friends should by a "faster" rig or a PS3,XBOX 360 to run A:CM. lol
Cheers!
Tell me about it, it's pretty annoying!
The mod works for them so that was all I was worried about, I just uploaded it here for if anyone else was in the same unfortunate circumstances
Hey bud I do use a Western Digital Green HD which is quite slow, and every time I try to run the Stasis Interrupted DLC I get a crash when the WY Flametrooper shows up in the intro. I'm wondering if its bc of the WD Green HD! Any thoughts?