Big Fps Problem

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• TheTick Join Date: 2003-08-13 Member: 19637Members, Constellation

  September 2003

  vid card is pretty low end
  you can get a
  GF4 for $25 here <a href='http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=536070&Sku=P56-2630%20W' target='_blank'>GF4 mx420 64MB</a>
  or a
  radeon 7000 for $25 here <a href='http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=612131&Sku=C261-6005' target='_blank'>Radeon 7000 64MB</a>
  
  if not an option make sure you have newest viddrivers for vid card you have
  here <a href='http://www.guru3d.com/' target='_blank'>is one of the best places for vid drivers</a>
  
  i would go there even if you get new card

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• Thansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation

  September 2003

  well, the tnt2 is sorta shody
  and you do have less hen a gig cpu
  
  remember, just b/c your rig can do HL and other mods with 100 fps dosn't meen it can handel NS as well.
  
  NS has alot more nasty stuff in it ;P
  
  but my suggestion is to go through thech help and look at the webbed threads on this (top of the page)
  
  there are like atleast 3 (roobs vsynch, MonsE's HL guide and Jimbos FPS guide)

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• sjaak Join Date: 2003-09-22 Member: 21114Members

  September 2003

  i have read them all but not much of a help
  
  but i now got the this all the time in my console
  
  Error: could not load file sprites/techtree/tech0s.spr

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• Soylent_green Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11220Members, Reinforced - Shadow

  September 2003 edited September 2003

  To test if your graphics card is the bottle neck you can try increasing the resolution slightly and see if it drastically affects your framerate or turn of vsync and see if your framerate is stable when standing still(do not run as a server on a lan when testing, then you will use much more CPU and memory resources than when playing on another server.). If the above are not true then you are bound by something else.
  
  If your graphics card is the bottle neck, try lowering the resolution, running in 16-bit colour mode if you aren't allready, try using r_dynamic 0(does not turn of all dynamic lights, only the phasegates dynamic light on world polygons). Don't bother touching gl_texturemode , you can make things extremely ugly and you gain almost no performance. Turn off high detail particles.
  
  I think your processor or memory bandwidth/latency is the cause.
  
  Turning of vsync will result in ugly frame tears but it will help slightly with your framerate(although your framerate won't be as even)help, if your graphics card allows you to force tripple buffering you could try that instead of turning of vsync(I think only some ATI cards allow forcing tripple buffering). If you are getting 20 fps then it is likely that you are using a 60Hz refresh rate with vsync on, this is a well known win2k/xp bug(or feature if you believe microsoft <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> ), read roob's fps/vsync guide in the sticky in this board.
  
  If your graphics card is not the bottle neck, feel free to increase graphical settings such as resolution, turning on 32 -bit mode and definetly setting gl_texturemode to gl_linear_mipmap_linear(do this in namned autoexec.cfg or HL will remove from the config.cfg for no apparent reason everytime you restart HL, if you want to test it just type it in the console and see, notice how that bluring at a certain distance all but dissapears?). You can turn up graphical settings to the point at which your graphics card is starting to become the limitation instead of the memory bandwidth or CPU and then back off a bit. Then you get the same framerate, but it looks better.
  
  Oh and what's this, your not using hud_fastswitch 1? It isn't easy to switch weapons quickly with fastswitch off.
  
  I don't have this sprite either, unless you spelt it wrong, sprites/techtree/tech0s.spr. But I get no error message that I can remember. If you spelt it wrong and it is one of those sprites that do exist (like sprites/techtree/tech20s.spr or something) then that part of the commander HUD won't be drawn, not a good thing if you go commander regularily.
  
  You can turn off the music if it annoys you too...(or if you wish to play your own and are having problems with the built-in player), set cl_musicenabled to 0.
  
  edit: wow it is amazing how confusing a sentence can become if you completely drop one of the most important words <!--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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