Framerate Question

JNighthawk

<div class="IPBDescription">Disabling Effects?</div> I've pretty much figured out what drops my frame-rate to crap. It's DEFINITLY the phase gate effects and lighting and maybe some of the turret effects. Is there any way to disable the smoke effects and lighting effects on the phase gate?

Oh, and I searched for "phase gate" in the forums and found an "r_dynamic 0" fix for dynamic lighting. Probably what the phase gate uses, but I'm not sure so I thought I'd post anyways.

MrKNifey

I read somewhere that the r_dynamic 0 command doesn't turn off the phase gate lights, but the devs are working to fix that.

Thansal

umm, what are your system specs?

I am guessing that you don't have a very good vid card...

I tihnk what you are actualy looking for is something about turning on/off partical effect...

I really don't know, but .. mabey cl_particleinfo "0" ?

sry mate, and GL

JNighthawk

I think that's what it is, the particle effects. Using "r_dynamic 0" doesn't work, because it apparently won't change! I kept trying to disable r_dynamic and it just went back to being turned on, and I doubt it ever went off. I hope the devs get a way to disable the effects soon :-\ I can play, but I will lose against a single marine with a welder, even if I'm an Onos, because he jumps around so much with me having 4 FPS :-P

System Specs:

P3 677 MHz
320 MB RAM
8 MB Integrated shared RAM vid card :-\
Cable connection (225k down, 35k up)

TreaclyWheat

UGH! Video card is garbage! *dies*

Seriously, upgrade ur vid card (dont go too expensive) a Radeon 8500 or 9200 (dont get the 9000, it sucks) I dont know much about Nvidia cards.

I got NS running well with this:

450 MHz P3

128 MB DDR RAM

64 MB Radeon 7500 (OC'd the core and memory. The Core Clock is now faster than a Radeon 9700!)

Windows ME
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I get a (lame) constant 50 FPS. Drops to about 30 in firefights & when theres lots of stuff around. I think it should be running better, i got freakin' Splinter Cell to run at a constant 60 FPS!

JNighthawk

I'm not upgrading a thing on this comp besides the RAM, which I already have. And I can't anyways, IT'S AN INTEGRATED CARD! No AGP slot.

RaVe

I had the same PC like you before (Intel 810 Intergrated Video Card)

It's not as bad as many people would think,it's just that you will constantly have to tinker around with settings until it is at optimal performance

gl_playermip 1 : Lowers player model quality, 0 is default but on this old one I use 1,or in some cases 2

gl_picmip 2 : Controls rendering quality, I use 2 since the PC can barely handle everything NS does

gl_texturemode "gl_nearest" : Sets rendering of textures to a certain amount

From the order of fastest with Doom-like quality to slowest but best looking textures
gl_nearest
gl_linear
gl_nearest_mipmap_nearest
gl_nearest_mipmap_linear
gl_linear_mipmap_nearest
gl_linear_mipmap_linear

Default setting is gl_linear_mipmap_nearest

gl_max_size "256" : Sets max texture size, hiugher looks better,but slows performance.I set mine to 64 and default is 256

I'm not sure what other things I tweaked since I got my new PC,because it has a Geforce 4 <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
And yes it does suck when you have an intergrated video card,but that's life, stuck with PCI slots instead :\

If anyting try to get a PCI GeForce 2 should work,but I haven't bought one yet.They should come around cheap (dont ask how,its relatively cheap in Hong Kong)

JNighthawk

Like I said, I'm not upgrading a single thing on it :-P I'm only on it until my main PC comes back up (it's a spare :-D). I'm on my main right now, but I think its going back down. My HDD died on it before, and the replacement I was sent was 20 gig smaller! Grr...HP. Oh well.

Ness

I have the exact same specs this poor man does, except for 633 mhz instead of 677. Same video card, Windows ME (never given me a problem, dont say anything I swear to god). Looking up troublshooting on the makers site will show that a glitch in the card doesnt support dynamic lighting. I get 4 fps around PGs and welders as well, everything else runs fine enough, I'm used to it enough to it doesnt affect me. It's too bad turning off dynamic lighting was the only thing I cared about at all in 2.0 and it didn't pull through. Make sure high end particle effects are turned off btw, it's right in customization. (as a small side note 2.0 also brings a new crippling gameplay problem for this computer, images overlap as if you were outside the map in spec, and it can last for seconds or minutes). I'm running NS off a 4 year old copy of CS retail btw, not DOD, opengl 640x400, no EAX. Escing to menu and resuming does nothing, except make it worse, now my menu is included in the blurring. I've yet to come across a solution for CS retail users, when I do i will edit accordingly. (Hrmph, I hope you don't view this as a "highjacking" monse, since I think my overlapping problem may have to do with my card, and I noticed this gentleman is running off the intel 810 chipset family as well)

SuperBOB

I hope we get alot more cvars to disable effects, im sure its the sentry/pg problem for most people..

I get it on a Duron 1200/GF4 MX
Like 60-70 FPS constant, then dips to 25-35 when i look at a moderate sentry farm.

VeNeM

I suggest getting the low poly models that were just realeased on the model forums here on the site.

fat_al

Ok, this is a great program for the low-enders (and high enders) I'm not sure if it works for NS though.
<a href='http://www.hltoolz.tk' target='_blank'>HLToolz 1.7</a>

edit. I tested this for CS on my laptop (600MHz, 192mb ddr ram, 16mb ATi card) and I went from 20-30fps to 50-60.