Need Help With Ns Text Messages

Garet_JaxGaret_Jax Join Date: 2003-02-23 Member: 13870Members, Constellation
in NS General Discussion
I'm a poor, simple man in many ways. One of those being that I play NS on a p450 voodoo2 56k.

To get a decent frame-rate, i used to play in 640x480, but when i entered a full TSA/kharaa base the FPS dropped to an unbearable level.

So last week i've bumped down to the next res (i think its 320x240)

This gives better FPS (obviously), but when I recieve 3 'say' or 'team_say' messages on screen, i can't see jack, as the bleedin' messages take up half the screen (and that is NOT an exageration)

I hear there's a console command that can make messages disappear at a faster rate. Does anyone know this command? also, is there anything else i can do? (short of buying stuff for my PC)

And, please, no 'haha sucker i got a 2.0Ghz GeForce 4 setup with 512Mb of considerably-better-than-thou's RAM'. Because, at the end of the day, i've got bigger cajones than you.

Thanks

-Seraph
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  • DoKuDoKu Join Date: 2003-07-05 Member: 17958Members
    well you could get a low poly pack(find it in the models section of forum) and have you tried commands like fps_max 100 etc.?
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    Haha sucker I got teh new Pentium XP 3600+Ghz with GeForceFX 9800 Pro and 3 Gigs of supa blow-you-away RAM!


    I believe the command is hud_saytext_time.
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Cereal_KillR+Jul 12 2003, 01:27 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ Jul 12 2003, 01:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Haha sucker I got teh new Pentium XP 3600+Ghz with GeForceFX 9800 Pro and 3 Gigs of supa blow-you-away RAM!


    I believe the command is hud_saytext_time. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    didnt work for me :S
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  • Garet_JaxGaret_Jax Join Date: 2003-02-23 Member: 13870Members, Constellation
    thx doku, didnt know NS had a low poly pack
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  • venomusvenomus Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8951Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->QUOTE (Cereal_KillR @ Jul 12 2003, 01:27 PM)
    Haha sucker I got teh new Pentium XP 3600+Ghz with GeForceFX 9800 Pro and 3 Gigs of supa blow-you-away RAM!


    I believe the command is hud_saytext_time. 

    didnt work for me :S <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    You have to enter a number to specify how long the text remains on-screen. Eg: hud_saytext_time 1 would make the message stay around for 1 secind instead of the default 5. Hate to point out the obvious, but the command works for me, and I can't see how it wouold not work for someone else.
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  • CheesyPetezaCheesyPeteza Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9784Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited July 2003
    Some new fonts were released for CS, both larger and smaller. I think you'll probably be able to get them to work with NS. Can't remember where you get them from though, you'll have to search the internet.

    <span style='color:white'>[edit]</span>Cos I'm a nice person I looked it up for you. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> There's lots of new fonts for people running in high res, but none I could find that made the font smaller.

    But I found <a href='http://home.earthlink.net/~dragcity/consfont.htm' target='_blank'>this</a> cool site that shows you how to make your own new fonts. It turns out it's incredibly easy. Just one simple command. I'm going to have a go making my own fonts now. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--><span style='color:white'>[/edit]

    Use edit, please.</span>
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  • taboofirestaboofires Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9853Members
    Playing in anything less than 800x600 burns. It's almost as bad as watching tv (I'm a stickler for image quality <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> ). I'd much rather turn all the quality settings down to zero then reduce the res below that point.

    The other side is bad too. 1600x1200 on a 16" laptop screen requires squinting.
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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    By der vay, if you set saytext_time to a veery low number (like 0.000000001), you effectively get chat blocking <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ArsoNArsoN Join Date: 2003-06-10 Member: 17177Members
    edited July 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Cereal_KillR+Jul 12 2003, 07:27 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ Jul 12 2003, 07:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Haha sucker I got teh new Pentium XP 3600+Ghz with GeForceFX 9800 Pro <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Shame there isn't a GeForce FX9800 Pro. It's the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, and the GeForce FX5900 Ultra. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Anyway, back on topic, i'm thinking about working on an extremely basic player model pack, i'm talking box models, that resemble the basic shape of whatever it is your staring at. However, will there be enough demand for it?
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    I've been wondering if anybody noticed there's no pentium XP, the 3600+ doesn't mean Ghz and that Gfx card was also mixed <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    In fact, the 3600+ might not exist.

    Scorpion: I believe hud_saytext 0 = effective blocking.
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  • kavasakavasa Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11889Members, Constellation
    Yeah I was gonna ask if that shouldn't have been 1gb of pc3200 DDR RIMMs, but hey.

    Honestly sir I was able to run at 800x600 with a p2-400 and a $30 Radeon 7000 (also known as a RadeonVE) so I'd really consider that a better alternative. Additionally, my current system, which runs NS at 1152x864 and 50-100 fps, cost about $500 including the monitor (a 19" flat-front samsung CRT). I'm not bragging about my system, I'm trying to indicate that one can build a very respectable box for very little money.
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  • Garet_JaxGaret_Jax Join Date: 2003-02-23 Member: 13870Members, Constellation
    well...yea...thx but im an unemployed-student

    Being from England, any money i do come into goes straight into the pubs (or 'bars' as our american friends would say)

    and i appreciate the font thing chessy. ill have ure babies if u got no other offers.

    -Seraph
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