Infestation performance?

NeoRussia

I get about 20 less frames just being in the same room that is filled with infestation and as much as 3 times less than that late game where it goes from the highest 70 at the beginning of the game to a measly 15 frames per second late game, about the same when I would local host a server and fill it fully with infestation. So I tried out NS2:C which has no infestation and performance was MUCH better, a solid 40-60 late game. This is one of the reasons they took it out completely I believe. Not to mention the game looked much better because the current implementation of infestation is so unsightly. Can we get a simple infestation option in the video settings? Simplified/no animation, simple texture, no extra mapping on it etc. Or maybe have an option to have infestation disabled altogether except on the minimap? If that gives you some kind of weird advantage in gameplay then at least have it an option until a proper implementation happens.

Onii-chan

I don't see what's soo ugly about the current infestation besides a few graphical bugs on some corners.
The texture work looks great, it flows quite nicely when expanding and gives some color in otherwise mostly gray maps.

Hopefully the next implementation of infestation will focus on performing better.

male_fatalities

If infestation performs so badly I don't know why its there. Performance > immersion anyday.

Dictator93

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Infestation does not perform poorly on my machine. Not sure why it does on any machine really

Industry

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If I had to wager a guess I'd say it's more to do with the network traffic (and subsequent CPU bottleneck that can create) to keep its locations updated on the server and all the clients.

fanatic

Infestation patches have a severe negative effect both on fps and network performance, AFAIK.

Locklear

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Yeah, I hate fighting in Hives because of this. It lowers my FPS by about 20-30 typically.

Jekt

Shade cloak is a big damper for me, that with infestation gets me below 30 everytime.

Techercizer

Never had any issue with infestation or cloak.


....or any other part of the game. Maybe this thread isn't the place for me. =P

Volcano

playing on ns2c mod and my fps went through the roof because there wasn't any infestation, going back to ns2 made my fps go to ###### again makes me a very sad panda

Benson

This might be a good question for the Brians on the dev Q and A

Daphisto

*raises hand*

I also saw massive FPS increase while playing NS2:Classic.

xDragon

As far as I know its because each pach is 6 additional entities, which adds to client/networking load. Judging by the FPS gains your posting about it somewhat explains why the server tickrate is getting killed on the mod, which is rapidly becoming the biggest problem for me atm.