How's optimization?
MisterYoon
Join Date: 2012-08-18 Member: 155747Members
Join Date: 2012-08-18 Member: 155747Members
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4-5Ghz Sandy\Ivy-bridges for servers are required to sustain a measily tick-rate of 30. I knew the "performance is coming\comes last"-shtick was just to shut up people complaining about it, but even I expected more than what has been delivered on this front so far.
It's always one more build for the real improvements isn't it...
While I agree server performance isn't good enough yet, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding of how tick rate works in NS2's spark engine. Max explained in a Q&A a while ago that the tick rate only applies to NPC objects. Players don't have a tick rate in spark the way they do in Source or Gold Source. So while the tick rate is a good metric for how much load a server it under, there isn't a direct correlation between tickrate and player update rate.
I wish they would put in some kind of metric for player update rate.
4-5Ghz Sandy\Ivy-bridges for servers are required to sustain a measily tick-rate of 30. I knew the "performance is coming\comes last"-shtick was just to shut up people complaining about it, but even I expected more than what has been delivered on this front so far.
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The sad thing is that there is a lua performance wall. Even if they optimize the lua code perfectly, there is still the hit from all that lua running. They won't be able to get past a certain speed until they re-attemp lua-jit (unlikely) or maybe push some base classes to C++. They might be able to do some lua hacking as well to add some new features for a speedup (lua-vec, optional manual memory management, etc)
not that long ago matso said about 30% of the time was in lua proper - the rest in core engine (incl marshalling for lua). now this was before some of the more recent updates, so the % may be higher now. point being that spending resources on faster lua may not have the highest cost/benefit at this time. but agree.. would love to see as efficient lua runtime as possible tailored for this game. we know max has been doing work in this area
I pre ordered yesterday but do not have beta acces so I will be curious as to how my system does when the game does release.
Can anyone give me a guess based on how your system performs how mine could do?
Specs:
i7 2600k @ stock
8GB DDR3 2133Mhz
GTX 690 4GB Overclocked
2560x1440 27" monitor.
I'm hoping to pull 60 FPS minimum on max settings, that would make me happy. I am able to do so with games like BF3. Is this harder to run that something like that? Thanks.
16GB DDR3 2133Mhz
XFX HD 6970 2GB
1920x1080 24" 120hz monitor.
My fps regularly drops well below 60 in late game with shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion, atmospherics and bloom turned off.
When is 224 expected to drop? Are there any confirmed changes coming in that build?
really? i thought they said it was not quite ready for 224 & we'd likely see it in the near future. client side improvement. right?
rmbrown - you have more than enough horsepower for pushing pixels. killer rig. you are really only limited by server performance late game.
they say a lot of things, especially what's coming for for the patch you're not playing.
If we compared current version with what we had year or so ago, improvements no doubt. But if we start comparing it to other games, the current version is still sluggish, is the word I will go with. Once this goes live people can start comparing this game performance to other games, and first impressions of the game can be pretty big deal.
two weeks to increase client/server performance to the level other games have it? I guess in two weeks we will know.
Xen. I would relax, it will run quite ok on your machine by release. In fact, it runs quite alright on your machine right now (with some settings turned off that is).
I also have been max 60fps for awhile now .But I have a god PC so...
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My specs are:
2500K @ 4.5ghz
ASUS P8P67 B3
8GB 1600mhz
GTX670 2GB (306.97)
Corsair ForceGT 128gb (NS2 is on this drive)
WD Caviar Black 1TB
HT Omega Claro Halo
Dell U2410 (1920x1200)
I can't hold 60fps constant, especially on max settings, and neither can anyone else.
2500K @ 4.5ghz
ASUS P8P67 B3
8GB 1600mhz
GTX670 2GB (306.97)
Corsair ForceGT 128gb (NS2 is on this drive)
WD Caviar Black 1TB
HT Omega Claro Halo
Dell U2410 (1920x1200)
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I think you mean *almost* anyone else. I've easily managed 60 with a 3.2 GHz i7 and a GTX 560Ti, since long before the current optimizations.
I'm sure you can ATTAIN 60fps but you cannot hold that amount during a fight.
^this.
I hope they send out a tweet or mention in a blog post that people should really check out the system requirements. It's better to have a few less or delayed sales than to have disgruntled customers who would want a refund and then not check out the game later even when they upgrade their rig.
Yes I can. When I uncap, I never drop below 80 in a fight. Don't tell my what my computer can and can't do unless you have the proof to back it up.
they actually said, that they have something, that they can't talk about and that will come with the "linuxupdate", but i really don't know, when this will be and what's this update about ...
maybe the dedicated linuxserver update ... don't know it exactly