Fix For Those With Major Fps Problems!

Guerilla

<div class="IPBDescription">low enders mainly</div> Ok i have been investigating the problems dreading framerate in quite a few maps, can
you guess what it is? the MP3 ambience files! in ns_nancy mp3's are rarely ever used so
the map runs smooth and doesnt drop to 5 frames per second half-way mid game,
now heres the solution, since servers dont search or check for mp3 files, this is what you
do:

open your c:/sierra/half-life/ns/sound/ambience now when in that folder DELETE any
mp3 file over 150 kb in size, now after that u do the usual emptying of the recycling bin
and load up NS, play any other map besides ns_nancy and you will notice that your
framerate will be constant through many many rounds of play, sure spawn areas might
be laggy but thats polycount, the possible cause of the fps drop from mp3's is that your
cpu is concentrating on loading the mp3 file repeatedly and since the sounds loop , your

cpu just keeps working and working leaving all the rendering and things to your video
card, i have a gf2 which can handle some, but working on everything all by itself is not
exactly gonna give you good fps, now with the mp3's out of mind and out of sight, the cpu

can help the video card with image processing and therfore can continue with constant
normal framerate, give all thanks to my 3 week investigation <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> i hope this gets a sticky

because it works and is a savior for many low enders <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

WolfofShadows

doesn't that go away when you click the option to turn off ambient music?

Guerilla

That is ambient music my friend, ambient sounds are used reguardless of that command to turn music off, so this fix, is a fix <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> for low enders of course

ramblingfool

could the offending files be converted into waves to reduce the decoding overhead?

WolfofShadows

Well, 400mhz P2 Celeron. 25 FPS that goes to aobut 7 in combat. I've done every other FPS trick out there, enough to write a book. Guess i'll try this one. I'll report on it tommorrow and tell you what results i get.

uk_ja

I tired what you suggested and it never made any difference on my system?

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Maybe yu did something else aswell?

Big_Game_Hunter

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I think a good rule of thumb is to maybe start thinking about upgrading your comp when the current processors get SEVEN TIMES faster.

WolfofShadows

yeah, but school has been too demanding to get a job...plus i play Paintball and Backyard Wrestle, both of which can get expensive, and i leave for the Air Force in less than a year...so should i really dump a ton of dough into my parent's computer? I mean sure, i could go out and buy a nice motherboard, athlon proccy, and kick **obscenity** video card, but then i couldn't play teh paintball for a while...but i might anyway.

WolfofShadows

Im not entirely convinced that the two are related, but before i removed my ambient sound files i lagged but didn't get connection problems. Now i'm getting connection problems regularly.