Post your computer specs and FPS while in NS2!

epsilan47epsilan47 Join Date: 2011-03-20 Member: 87553Members
Hey everyone, I'm noticing a lot of people posting about FPS issues. However, I've noticed people saying they get 60+ constant FPS and others with better systems saying they're at 30-40.

So the point of this thread is to possibly give UWE some insight on optimization for certain cards/brands. Also, it could assist anyone who is planning on upgrading their system for NS2 or in general!

Let me start:

AMD Phenom II x6 1055T OC to 3.5ghz
ASUS M4A88T-M LE mobo
8 gb Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333mhz
Sapphire HD5850 set at 775, 1125

My performance appears to fluctuate randomly from usually 40-60 and sometimes drops to 35.

I play at 1440x900 res and settings on High.

Comments

  • QuovatisQuovatis Team Inversion Join Date: 2010-01-26 Member: 70321Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Lots of these threads in the past, but whatever...

    i5-2500k @ 4.5 GHz
    Asus P8P67-M
    8 GB RAM
    GTX 560 Ti OC

    I've never seen my FPS dip below 40, and usually 50-60, or even higher. The server tickrate is what kills me now.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited April 2011
    Rockdown, tickrate of ~25 I think it was

    C2D 2.13Ghz
    HD4850 512Mb
    OCZ 2Gb DDR2 800Mhz
    1280x720xmedium

    35-60FPS (main hive killed my FPS ~15)


    [edit]It's playable once more, but still laggy in close quarter combat. But I can hit stuff once more :P
  • JirikiJiriki retired ns1 player Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11780Members, NS1 Playtester, Squad Five Silver
    edited April 2011
    i5-2500k, overclocking to 4Ghz+
    4GB RAM
    GTX570
    Asus P8P67

    50-80, 60 around rockdown. Can go to 90-100 in RR.
  • [FR]PhY[FR]PhY Join Date: 2011-04-01 Member: 90000Awaiting Authorization
    E8400 Dual Core 3Ghz
    4 Go Ram DDR2 GSkill
    GeForce 7950 GT

    Max 15 Fps, in combat : 5 Fps
  • gfunkgfunk Join Date: 2011-04-02 Member: 90184Members
    low FPS here, reason i just signed up

    I understood ages ago that UW were aware of slowness issues but seems they have been adding all this new stuff but they've forgotten about fixing these performance problems? i think i would do a lot more playing if the game actually ran smooth

    anyways 2.9quad core, HD4800, 6GB RAM get like 20fps
  • GlassesGlasses Join Date: 2010-01-11 Member: 70056Members, Reinforced - Diamond
    PC Spec:
    Intel Q9650 (Overclocked to 4.2GHz)
    8192MB Ram
    Nvidia GeForce GTX295, 1792mb

    60fps most of the time, but in tight battles my fps goes 25 - 40
  • YuriYuri Join Date: 2011-04-02 Member: 90248Members
    Hi,
    I got Q9300@3.0GHz, HD4850 and 4GB RAM. I got a lot of fps drops.

    Really strange thing is that the utilisation of my GPU rarely goes beyond 60% and the CPU is loaded 50% on avg. So I assume that NS2 uses 2 cores only and my old C2D march based CPU is not able to feed my GPU by data.
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi! Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    NS2 will only use 1 core of your PC.
  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1839659:date=Apr 2 2011, 05:05 PM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thaldarin @ Apr 2 2011, 05:05 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839659"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->NS2 will only use 1 core of your PC.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Is that official? The only reason i ask is that since the last patch i am showing usage has gone up considerably on a second core on my machine when i run NS2. It seems to me it is using 2 cores, either that or my operating system is sucking it dry.
  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    There's no point in posting your FPS unless everyone is testing to the same benchmark. 'I get 40-60 around Rockdown' isn't going to provide meaningful data. 'I started a LAN game benchmark in Marine Start, ran through Tram Hub to Alien Start, hit the Hive with my axe three times, ran to the resource node in Alien Expansion, and then stopped the benchmark. My FPS Min Max Avg was XX YY ZZ' is meaningful.

    Having these threads pop up each build could provide a goldmine of performance data if we use a semi-standard benchmark.
  • playerplayer Join Date: 2010-09-12 Member: 73982Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1839662:date=Apr 3 2011, 01:50 AM:name=SN.Wolf)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SN.Wolf @ Apr 3 2011, 01:50 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839662"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Is that official? The only reason i ask is that since the last patch i am showing usage has gone up considerably on a second core on my machine when i run NS2. It seems to me it is using 2 cores, either that or my operating system is sucking it dry.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    NS2 does use 2 cores (or rather, 200% shifted around on 4 cores continuously), however the Lua-VM is isolated to run on 1 of them, so we're still looking at a bottleneck here.
  • SN.WolfSN.Wolf Join Date: 2010-03-29 Member: 71115Members
    thanks for clarifying, i though maybe a i drank to much or my pc was suffering from a NS2 induced porn attack.
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1839664:date=Apr 3 2011, 12:58 AM:name=NS2HD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NS2HD @ Apr 3 2011, 12:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839664"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There's no point in posting your FPS unless everyone is testing to the same benchmark. 'I get 40-60 around Rockdown' isn't going to provide meaningful data. 'I started a LAN game benchmark in Marine Start, ran through Tram Hub to Alien Start, hit the Hive with my axe three times, ran to the resource node in Alien Expansion, and then stopped the benchmark. My FPS Min Max Avg was XX YY ZZ' is meaningful.

    Having these threads pop up each build could provide a goldmine of performance data if we use a semi-standard benchmark.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    To add to this, starting up a 'my-fps-running-through-x-map' youtube thread would be good. Run through, look around in places, look at varying angles etc. and upload it to youtube, then link in a thread. You could even call it "make your own NS2HD".
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited April 2011
    <!--quoteo(post=1839664:date=Apr 3 2011, 12:58 AM:name=NS2HD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NS2HD @ Apr 3 2011, 12:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839664"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There's no point in posting your FPS unless everyone is testing to the same benchmark. 'I get 40-60 around Rockdown' isn't going to provide meaningful data. 'I started a LAN game benchmark in Marine Start, ran through Tram Hub to Alien Start, hit the Hive with my axe three times, ran to the resource node in Alien Expansion, and then stopped the benchmark. My FPS Min Max Avg was XX YY ZZ' is meaningful.

    Having these threads pop up each build could provide a goldmine of performance data if we use a semi-standard benchmark.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yeah yeah, we know, but that would entail doing something more then simply looking at a fps indicator. Can you blame a lazy race like ours for not doing everything to the max?

    It would be nice if NS2.exe in window mode would be registered by Fraps though... Fullscreen -> the performance goes down for me somewhat :(
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Kouji have you tried opening in full screen and switching it to windowed?

    I always run in windowed mode and when I made a video with FRAPS it registered it no problem.
  • OPIEOPIE Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8343Members
    E5300 2.6 ghz dual core
    6 gigs Ram
    Nvidia 580GTX 1.5mb

    FPS on Max settings stable around 40 FPS. Only dips to 30 during high action. Processor is bottle necking the card, saving up to get a new Mother board, Ram and processor.
  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    <!--quoteo(post=1839670:date=Apr 3 2011, 12:27 PM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thaldarin @ Apr 3 2011, 12:27 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839670"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->To add to this, starting up a 'my-fps-running-through-x-map' youtube thread would be good. Run through, look around in places, look at varying angles etc. and upload it to youtube, then link in a thread. You could even call it "make your own NS2HD".<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Unfortunately the FPS hit I receive when I begin recording is really big (Not enough $$$ for raid!). I imagine most people with normal systems will experience the same hit. Although perhaps I could have a go at recording a benchmark for us to use? Perhaps people could suggest a route/actions and I could record it for people to act out?
  • RuntehRunteh Join Date: 2010-06-26 Member: 72163Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    I think this sort of thing, whilst useful, is probably pretty useless right now. They probably have a pretty good idea of what is causing these issues at the moment.

    Once everything obvious (code) wise has been done, that is when you can work on the more 'niche' aspects. I would have thought.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited April 2011
    <!--quoteo(post=1839675:date=Apr 3 2011, 02:41 AM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thaldarin @ Apr 3 2011, 02:41 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839675"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Kouji have you tried opening in full screen and switching it to windowed?

    I always run in windowed mode and when I made a video with FRAPS it registered it no problem.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well that crashed NS2.exe and after a VPU recover it somehow does work................


    .............................................


    I dunno anymore!
  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1839664:date=Apr 2 2011, 04:58 PM:name=NS2HD)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NS2HD @ Apr 2 2011, 04:58 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1839664"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There's no point in posting your FPS unless everyone is testing to the same benchmark. 'I get 40-60 around Rockdown' isn't going to provide meaningful data. 'I started a LAN game benchmark in Marine Start, ran through Tram Hub to Alien Start, hit the Hive with my axe three times, ran to the resource node in Alien Expansion, and then stopped the benchmark. My FPS Min Max Avg was XX YY ZZ' is meaningful.

    Having these threads pop up each build could provide a goldmine of performance data if we use a semi-standard benchmark.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=112532&st=40&p=1833871&#entry1833871" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...p;#entry1833871</a>

    When I get the chance, I'll update it for B170. Though, I don't think comparing fps is very useful right now since the bottleneck is mostly server-side. As long as you're getting an average of about 20 fps, you're probably being limited by the server rate rather than your personal hardware/settings.
  • DJPenguinDJPenguin Useless Join Date: 2003-07-29 Member: 18538Members
    130 frames in the ready room. i win.
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