So, I replaced my old computer, which wasn't that bad for a game like sk, and went for a new rig with double HD6870 and a Core i5-2500k, 8 GB ram.
Thing is, even that seems to not allow me to run the game at full details, in FSC I tried to max out the quality and ended up with crappy framerate, and when I say crappy I mean less than 10 fps and many fps drops that made me ran directly into lava.
So what the hell with this game? Or what the hell happened to it? Cause I know two years ago I was able to run it at max with a very old rig, and since I went back to it these days, it's impossible to play it decently without putting everything on low. This is obviously not a problem on my part as I'm able to run any game decently with my new computer and SK is not that demanding of a game. Someone might explain me what's going wrong?
[I believe that] The actual calculations for the game are done on the server.
So here is how it'd work:
Server <- Packets w/ info on what you press <- your rig
[Server calculates what happened...]
Server -> Packets w/ info on what happened -> your rig
Yes, this is a bit of a massive simplification. But it explains it, and I obviously don't know the specifics (I didn't make the game)... you can easily see it when you open your arsenal after collecting a ton of random junk. You press the inventory and LAGSPLOSION, because you just requested and now must update a big list of information to display.
This prevents hacking.