well, all the rendering and graphics is client side, so shouldnt it be possible to "remake" a version of the C1 client that can run smoothly on low end systems?

i know im not the only one who prefers the original.

its entirely possible to skin the game to be very close to what C1 look like (although some things changed, like z axis existence and 3d collision). But with the client optimizations currently in, it wont change much on your performance, because its generally not the ship model itself causing you to lag, but the ship existence (the simple act of rendering it is slower than actually rendering it XD).

It is not profitable to actually support 2 entirely different client (one using C1 code which is a total mess and not supported even in windows 7 let alone windows 8 XD) and C2. Yes some people dislike C2, but times change, computers upgrade, and more people like C2 (especially new players), than they liked C1 (we currently enjoy about 5 times more new players every day than we ever did on C1)

Off course there are many other factors, but fact remain, C1 is dead, has been dead for quite over a year even before C2 release, and yes it ran better on way older machine, it was actually running way worse on modern computers, and would only go in decline on that side.

Times change, computer improve, old computers (5 years+) are doomed to die in a very short time frame considering they are already past their life expectancy. New computer powerful enough to play SS2 at max graphic are incredibly cheap (hell my windows 7 tablet computer can run it at high without problems).

oh i 100% agree with you, windows 8 look like crap, but hey, people out there still buy intel gpu so im ready to bet a few hundreds bils that 1 month after windows8 is officially out, ill get dmp files from people on it .

If you want to enjoy the game with full graphics and maximum FPS, get a new computer. But if you want to enjoy the game with max FPS only, turn your graphics to low.

Nothing Jey can't whip up ;D

I have a strange feeling very little people or none would be trying out c3 if it ever came out xD

C3 is not even on the design table currently (has there is no need for a new client overhaul yet ). It took well over 6 years to get C2 from the design table to reality, so worry not. C3 is not for any soon to be future !

There used to be a setting where you could control the frame rates at which lag killer would kick in, but those seem to be gone now. Instead, simply /glkl 10 when you're having issues.

noone read the link i posted a in that thread yesterday i take it >_>

viewtopic.php?f=116&t=51734

If you feel like your computers doesnt get the performance it should on ss2, then what you need to do to help fix it is described here
viewtopic.php?f=116&t=51358

although on a sidenote, the lagkiller is very similar to techniques used by all the games you mentioned to stream the graphic depending on the system load. except im straight forward about it and dont hide it (and admittedly im not nearly as good as some of the graphic devs that make those engines ).

Believe me, everyday i wish we had someone good with 3d rendering related code to help me out with those optimisation/performance issues. But those are incredibly hard to find !