Low FPS under vista.

SjNSjN Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 11983Members, Reinforced - Supporter
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<div class="IPBDescription">just installed Vista...</div>

i used to get 100-90fps while playing NS. 1.8ghz dual core, 1gb ram, 256mb ati card. blahblah..

after installing Vista i am getting 20-100fps.. sometimes it's dropping with no reason..

what the heck! help please...
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  • aeroripperaeroripper Join Date: 2005-02-25 Member: 42471NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    It's probably running openGL underneath Direct3D, which is causing your performance problems IIRC. I am not sure if this has been fixed, or will be fixed.
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  • KainTSAKainTSA Join Date: 2005-05-30 Member: 52831Members, Constellation
    Are you getting the same drop in other games? Other HL mods?
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  • SjNSjN Join Date: 2003-01-07 Member: 11983Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    hmm i don't know.. i am not playing any other games..

    i wish i knew what's causing the fps drop.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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  • KungFuDiscoMonkeyKungFuDiscoMonkey Creator of ns_altair 日本福岡県 Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14555Members, NS1 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos
    <!--quoteo(post=1632883:date=Jun 11 2007, 01:07 AM:name=aeroripper)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(aeroripper @ Jun 11 2007, 01:07 AM) [snapback]1632883[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    It's probably running openGL underneath Direct3D, which is causing your performance problems IIRC. I am not sure if this has been fixed, or will be fixed.
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    With HL engine games, it ran best with OpenGL however from what I recall, Vista runs OpenGL as a wrapper around DirectX which means there's an additional overhead from running OpenGL applications on Vista. You can try running NS with DirectX though I don't recall how good HL works with DirectX. Other than that you may just have to bite the bullet and play as it is. Unfortunately, since Vista is such a new system, I don't think the NS team has the resources to really support it at this time and a lot of that support would be more dependent on how much Valve wanted to support HL in Vista.
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  • corpsmancorpsman Join Date: 2004-04-17 Member: 27979Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Use XP and problems will go away. *sigh*
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