Weird Blood Problem.
ShadowSlay
Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21009Members
Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21009Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">hmmm wth.</div> Well ive been playing on a server with the sporify rt plugin so ive been having to shoot the rts and i noticed something strange happening. When the blood is on the wall or floor in a big puddle and i go right up to it and look at it my fps drops to almost nothing. At first i thought it had something to do with the plugin so i went to another server and it did the same thing. Some people i know have this problem too...anyone know how to fix it? I have a Geforce 4 64 mb and one of the people i know has a geforce 5200 128 mb and has the same problem...so it shouldnt be the video card. Its really annoying me because i like having my decal limit up to 4096 but when ever theres alot of blood it gets unplayable. So does anyone know something i can turn on or off in the game or my video card options that will keep the blood but remove the fps drop?
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Have decals spread out everywhere is usually fine for most mid-high end systems, but having several hundred decals overlapping each other (like when you shoot an RT that's up against a wall) can take its toll on most systems. There's no way to avoid it, but if it's really, really annoying, then turn down mp_decals to 50 or so. Don't put it to 0, though, as decals do give indication of recent events (for example, alien blood decals behind an SC probably means a Marine discovered it).
The decrease in framerates when looking at steam could be a case similar to the decals.
I had the same problem some time ago.. This also accured in half-life and such..
I did almost everything. format, updated drivers, etc. etc.
As the last thing i did, I reset my BIOS (in BIOS setup).. it seemed some of my settings was pretty messed up, so after doing this, my fps was great again and mazing_ lived happily ever after ^_^
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Edit: i cant figure out how to reset it. Anyone know how to reset a Compaq Bios or what im supposed to select in the BIOS menu?
Edit: i cant figure out how to reset it. Anyone know how to reset a Compaq Bios or what im supposed to select in the BIOS menu? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Easiest way to do it is to simply remove the CMOS battery, count to 10, then put it back in.
If you're slightly more confident, there will be a jumper next to (or at least in the vicinity of,) the CMOS battery. Set this to it's alternate postion, boot PC. PC will probably fail to boot, (depends on the design of the mobo,) then turn off and put the jumper back.
Now a disclaimer;
*****WARNING*****
Incorrectly a setting CPU jumper (if you somehow got totally lost and mistook a square CPU for a circular battery,) can and WILL cause the CPU to BURN OUT.
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MANY OTHER components CAN AND WILL be damaged in the same fashion if you set the wrong jumper. Refer carefully to your motherboard manual if you are not a hardware techie dude.
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I really dont see how resetting the bios will alter graphics settings in anway shape or form, but hey, it worked for mazing_. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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I dont recommend resetting the BIOS! Factory default values may not fit your hardware...
Instead do a google search for BIOS tweaking tutorials... Read and understand what settings effect what... then maybe you can figure out, if your problem is related to any setting in BIOS or not...
As for your problem check the graphic apperature size in BIOS... It must be same as the RAM of your graphic card...
gazOzz i cant find anything that says "graphics apperature size" in my BIOS and i looked through the whole thing...like twice. So does it have another name or something?
gazOzz i cant find anything that says "graphics apperature size" in my BIOS and i looked through the whole thing...like twice. So does it have another name or something? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It would be obvious.
Points to look out for:
It is probably a power of 2
It should be set to 1/2 your system ram size.
Yeah, that's a point. gazOzz, AFAIK, (correct me if I am wrong,) the graphics apperature size is simply the amount of system ram the GPU can overflow its data into. It should be independant of GPU memory, although I spose you would need more system memory with less grahpics ram.
Still, having a 256 meg card and 256 meg of system memory would, by your logic, lead to a graphics apperature of 256, which is insane.
(System memory runs out, would cause programs to use pagefile, etc etc)
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Dont be scared of opening up your PC. Most mobos are jumper-less these day, so it should not be a problem. I just exagerated the situation a bit to ward of newbies with itchy lawyer-fingers.
HTH.
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As for AGP aperture, my understanding was that its a fairly outdated concept now. Try to not have it get in the way, so keep it at a setting between 32-64 - a large one would be utterly pointless, as no games really use AGP aperture anymore (there was like ONE I can think of that tried, but then I stopped keeping up, so eh) and irregularly large settings may lead to serious slowdowns.
As for your problem in itself. Experiment with drivers maybe - but honestly, I'm having tons of trouble too running HL on any NVidia based card without performance drops in places that shouldn't be producing them.