Low fps from <10 to 40

RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
edited October 2012 in Technical Support
Hi there,

I've been expecting this game since NS1 massive playing stopped but yesterday I couldnt enjoy your game due the low FPS I get even with all graphics options off / minimum

<img src="http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/200/fpsz.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

I have try all kind of stuff but Im still unable to play...

Any help would be awesome,

thx

EDIT: Soz i thougth I put my specs.
<b>
Im playing on a laptop (so no OCing possible)
i5 430m ;
GT 320m 1GB dedicated ;
4gb RAM DDR3
1366x768 res

All drivers are update</b>
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  • WhosatWhosat Singapore Join Date: 2006-11-03 Member: 58301Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Hi there, could you please post up your computer's specs? (:
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  • BadIronTreeBadIronTree Join Date: 2005-01-09 Member: 34252Members
    Does the GPU have 1 gb ram minimum ? With my AMD 4870x2 (dual) 1 GB ram i had 15-30 FPS Max
    Now with the 7970 GHz edition i have 40-80 fps with all max out in 1920x1080
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  • stenbenstenben Join Date: 2012-02-22 Member: 147139Members
    waiting for render thread 7ms...
    it means that your gpu is waiting for the cpu to make all the calculations.
    This game needs a beast of a cpu to run great and your old i5 is not fast enough im afraid
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  • RegnarebRegnareb Join Date: 2007-08-26 Member: 62008Members, NS2 Playtester
    56ms waiting on GPU.

    Perhaps try to lower your resolution, I personally play at 800*600. The resolution impact greatly the performances.
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  • goblingoblin Join Date: 2004-09-05 Member: 31412Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2002999:date=Oct 31 2012, 03:43 PM:name=stenben)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (stenben @ Oct 31 2012, 03:43 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2002999"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->waiting for render thread 7ms...
    it means that your gpu is waiting for the cpu to make all the calculations.
    This game needs a beast of a cpu to run great and your old i5 is not fast enough im afraid<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I think in this case that the GPU is the problem
    "56 ms waiting for GPU"
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    edited November 2012
    <!--sizeo:5--><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><a href="http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-320M.25099.0.html" target="_blank">GT 320m review</a><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->
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  • WilsonWilson Join Date: 2010-07-26 Member: 72867Members
    Turn down your resolution.
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  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    edited November 2012
    <b>56 ms waiting for GPU</b>
    Thats definitely your low end latptop video card that's not meant for FPS gaming.

    "The performance of the GT 320M is nearly on a level of the old GeForce 9600M GT (altough the 9600M GT features 32 shaders)."

    Note that this list is not the high performance list but the "medium" and your card still doesnt fare well:
    <a href="http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+320M&id=1175" target="_blank">http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lo...20M&id=1175</a>
    Another reference point is the score for that video card is "291" and the latest video card the 680 scores "5,450" which is nearly 20x faster.
    :-/
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    edited November 2012
    <!--quoteo(post=2004547:date=Nov 1 2012, 04:33 PM:name=ironhorse)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ironhorse @ Nov 1 2012, 04:33 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2004547"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><b>56 ms waiting for GPU</b>
    Thats definitely your low end latptop video card that's not meant for FPS gaming.

    "The performance of the GT 320M is nearly on a level of the old GeForce 9600M GT (altough the 9600M GT features 32 shaders)."

    Note that this list is not the high performance list but the "medium" and your card still doesnt fare well:
    <a href="http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+320M&id=1175" target="_blank">http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lo...20M&id=1175</a>
    Another reference point is the score for that video card is "291" and the latest video card the 680 scores "5,450" which is nearly 20x faster.
    :-/<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    But my GPU is above the minimum reqs of the game... I've played BF3 and MW3 on this laptop at low details. I can't believe I cant play this game.

    EDIT: My laptop is not overheated. Maybe is something I can do on the Nvidia control panel?
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  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    edited November 2012
    Well you can try to open the control panel and select ns2.exe and ensure that its set to HIGH PERFORMANCE... but after that you're kind of limited by the performance of the actual card.

    MW3 is using a heavily modified Quake 3 engine released in 1999 that was already based off of previous engines and written with practically an unlimited budget and john carmack.
    Considering that you have to run the game in LOW settings is a good indicator of why you cannot run this well, i'm sorry. :-/
    BF3's frostbite engine is in a similar boat, but slightly more modern.
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    Im playing on marine's side at 1024*768. Seems that playing alien need more CPU/GPU.

    Hope it get fixed/code depurated by time.

    Thx
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  • WhosatWhosat Singapore Join Date: 2006-11-03 Member: 58301Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Do this bro:

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=10649&view=findpost&p=2004743" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....t&p=2004743</a>
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2005650:date=Nov 2 2012, 03:18 AM:name=Whosat)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Whosat @ Nov 2 2012, 03:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2005650"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Do this bro:

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=10649&view=findpost&p=2004743" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....t&p=2004743</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Link broken:

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The error returned was:

    Sorry, the link that brought you to this page seems to be out of date or broken.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • jltan89jltan89 Join Date: 2012-11-02 Member: 165802Members
    same =( link not working.... i'm getting frame spikes average of 18fps ~ 20fps
    Cant even shoot skulks =(

    running the game at 1024 x 768 everything low, frame lag like ###### =(

    Spec:
    i5-2500k 3.30ghz
    8gig ram
    GTX 560 Ti

    couldn't be, right?
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    Hey guys!

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Help UWE with below:
    QUOTE (ironhorse @ Nov 6 2012, 08:14 PM) *
    For those wishing simply to contribute to performance in ns2 , possibly helping the cause of your slow downs for everyone down the road yet without an immediate fix for you personally... Please submit a performance log of the most polarizing instance of fps drop by typing p_logall to create a round long log of your performance. The log is saved in your %appdata% folder (Ctrl+R, fill in %appdata%, hit enter, browse to Natural Selection 2, find client-<number>-<number>.plog) at the end of a round or exit and you can zip it up and link it<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <b>But I'm having troubles trying to unzip with 7zip the log, whos extension is *.plog</b>

    Not getting above 20 fps in combat even I lowered resolution and turned to "high" ns2 priority CPU.
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  • bHackbHack Join Date: 2010-03-23 Member: 71059Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2002900:date=Oct 31 2012, 04:50 PM:name=Riskke)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Riskke @ Oct 31 2012, 04:50 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2002900"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i5 430m ;<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    2.26ghz. end of story.

    With 3.6ghz I have 55¬60fps average, which sometimes goes to 40 (can't really track all the fps changes, but I don't experience Lag issues at all though). Everything on low =)
    And as previously stated - graphics card is an issue as well.
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    Can you check if the steps <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=117259&view=findpost&p=1916546" target="_blank">here </a>make any difference for you?
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2021960:date=Nov 13 2012, 12:55 PM:name=Zaggy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zaggy @ Nov 13 2012, 12:55 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2021960"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Can you check if the steps <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=117259&view=findpost&p=1916546" target="_blank">here </a>make any difference for you?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    Yep, I've done all and still I only able to play marines in a decent FPS (20). I have the *.plog but i cant unzip it (It that can help devs)
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=2024410:date=Nov 15 2012, 12:03 PM:name=Riskke)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Riskke @ Nov 15 2012, 12:03 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2024410"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yep, I've done all and still I only able to play marines in a decent FPS (20). I have the *.plog but i cant unzip it (It that can help devs)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Thanks, could you upload the plog here as attachment or link to it here please?
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2024480:date=Nov 15 2012, 01:52 PM:name=Zaggy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zaggy @ Nov 15 2012, 01:52 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2024480"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Thanks, could you upload the plog here as attachment or link to it here please?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I wish but im gettin' errors uploading a *.plog (to much size) and "Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file" as *.7zip

    Do you know any webpage where I can upload a simple file.

    Thanks for all
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  • FatfoolFatfool Join Date: 2012-11-19 Member: 172399Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2031779:date=Nov 22 2012, 10:06 AM:name=Riskke)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Riskke @ Nov 22 2012, 10:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2031779"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I wish but im gettin' errors uploading a *.plog (to much size) and "Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file" as *.7zip

    Do you know any webpage where I can upload a simple file.

    Thanks for all<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    You can do this:

    <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?1gaw98vk21g03dn,ino6t4aeon663e6" target="_blank">http://www.mediafire.com/?1gaw98vk21g03dn,ino6t4aeon663e6</a>


    (apologies for putting mine here but I don't know if there's a thread for all these plog files.)
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  • RiskkeRiskke Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165036Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2024480:date=Nov 15 2012, 01:52 PM:name=Zaggy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zaggy @ Nov 15 2012, 01:52 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2024480"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Thanks, could you upload the plog here as attachment or link to it here please?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?3owe211b06hm5cc" target="_blank"><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Done<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></a>
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