Vault 84: Performance Benchmarks and Tips
This page is very much under construction at the moment. Tips for now:
- Install a bigger version of Fallout to your hard disk. Of all the
performance tips, this one seems to have the biggest impact.
- Make other applications quit when you start Fallout (settable the
first time you run the game, or from the "Options" menu when you hit
Command-P during the game).
- Use Apple's Extension Manager or Casady &
Greene's Conflict Catcher to set up a minimal set of extensions to
play the game. If you try this, don't forget to enable the Game
Sprockets needed for Fallout! (InputSprocket and DrawSprocket)
- Upgrade your Mac to one of those nice, new, zippy G3 jobs and
buy a great big 7200rpm disk drive =8^).
- Fallout requires a minimum of 16 MB RAM and prefers 32 MB. I
haven't found that increasing the preferred amount of RAM (to 40MB)
improved speed all that much.
I'll be putting up some benchmark numbers soon, but here are stats on my
machine (a stock PowerMacintosh 8500/120):
| Processor
| PowerPC 604
|
| Processor Clock Speed
| 120 Mhz
|
| System RAM
| 64 MB
|
| RAM allocated to MacOS
| 16.7 MB
|
| RAM allocated to Fallout
| 40 MB
|
| Level 2 Cache
| 256 K
|
| Disk Cache
| 2096 K
|
| CD-ROM speed
| 4X
|
| Bus speed
| 40 Mhz
|
These are some of the load times I experienced with this setup, using
a full (600MB install) on a Jaz disk:
| Game startup (double-click to opening logos)
| 31 sec
|
| Starting new game (close of cutscene to cave)
| 17 sec
|
| Loading early savegame (completing Vault 15 and
all Shady Sands quests)
| 45 sec
|
| Loading late savegame (Everything complete
except Military Base)
| 4 min, 13 sec
|
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Edward C. Liu
edwick@macconnect.com
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1997 Interplay Productions.
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Last modified: December 16, 1997