Another 2.0 Question
TheGivingTree
Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12070Members
Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12070Members
Hi, I've been having alot of problems with NS eating all my CPU and with no money for upgrades and with constantly dropping/losing FPS during gun fights or just standing in the marine base I have spent weeks tweaking and setting NS and my graphics card to the highest performance possible ( gf4mx ) yet I still drop FPS like crazy. So finally today I had it and I searched the modeling forum for some low polygon count files and I tried them out today. They help my FPS dramatically. Just changing the turret/siege/TF/skulk I got about a 10-15 FPS increase which helps me alot. Now the only problem is, I can't use these low polygon models in CAL or even servers with file consitancy, and I can't help that my comp can't handle all the polygons but yet i get punished for it. So I was wondering, if at all possible if perhaps with 2.0 they could release all the same models but with greatly reduced polygon counts for all us players with low end computers? Or perhaps take some of the low polygon models from the model forums and make them offical and playable even with file constiency? Thank you.
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Best solution: Switch off netgraph and stop worrying, it can't effect your gameplay that much.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=18&t=34027' target='_blank'>Roobubba's Guide</a>
Hopefully this will help you, it helped me a lot. Also on a side note, make sure you have downloaded the Detonator patchs for your Geforce, they help alot.
Just a few weaks ago both my and my friend still had xp and pushed 100fps in any condition you can imagine. now both of us got win2000 and have odd **** problems with it which includes frames. After going through the frame guide (posted above) turning v-synce off, ablahblah filtering off, and running refresh rate lock program i still cant get more than 70 and most the time only have 40. Dam jps don't lift off the ground for me sometimes.
I also have a problem with lack of response on my keyboard with win2000 if i doing to much at once like flying and biting. only bites sometimes. And i get a stupid split second mouse lock up once in a while which is enough to send a skulk running into a wall and get very disorientated. I hate win2000.
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This saved my FPS
Truely it did!
I have a P3 866MHz, 512MBs pc133MHz Ram and a GF4 ti 4600 with 128mbs ddr ram.
I was getting a sad 30 to 40 FPS, I was crying when a battle was happening and when someone spammed mines or structures.. Life ended for me!
Then I read this
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=18&t=34027' target='_blank'>Roobubba's Guide</a>
I set my Max_fps for 100 and did the changes listed in here, now I get an average of 95 FPS and the lowest I drop is mid 60s where I would have had 10s before!
I know I spammed you enough already Roob, but, YOU SAVED MY FPS!
( I got a p4 1.6ghz 256 RAM, gf4 mx420 and I use WinXP.)
(BTW I get 100 FPS now, but when there are alot of turrets/mines/action or im near a hive i can drop to about 20-30)
can and would the NS team do this for all the low end computer players?
Yeah I did that, trust me i did EVERYTHING I spent weeks purly, tweaking and upgrading everything just to get the absoulte best I can out of NS and I still drop fps like crazy.