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Bobamelius
Grand Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: October 08, 2002
Posts: 2074
From: Ohio
|  Posted: 2006-02-06 18:46
As of late, as some of you may already know from my incessant complaining in the lobby, my framerate when playing DarkSpace has been dropping to prodigiously low levels when around a defended planet, or indeed even when in a light skirmish. I have no real idea why this is happening; it did not occur in previous iterations of DarkSpace, or even during the period that I played actively shortly after the release of 1.483.
I did find that my ATI control center thingy had automatically set anti-aliasing to 4x and anisotropic filtering to 16x. This startled me since my card is somewhat mediocre (Radeon 9600 Pro) and I promptly changed the setting to Application Controlled (which I assume means 'off').
My system is running a 2.4GHz Pentium 4, with 1GB of RAM, SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 sound card, and the aforementioned Radeon 9600 Pro on AGP 8x. Should be more than enough to handle whatever DarkSpace can throw at me, and for a long time, it was. I dunno what happened.
Anyway, here are some examples of my plight. Pay attention to the FPS number...
I run DS at 1280x1024x32 resolution, with High texture detail, with Specular, Alpha Fonts and Light Maps enabled, ship trails, missiles trails, and particle/explosion detail all at 100%, Wait VB disabled (what's it do?)
My Connection Speed is set at cable model/T1 (32768bps). I am on cable.
My FPS limit is set to 120. I was under the impression that this was a good setting, but would it possibly make any difference if I disabled FPS limit altogether?
Anyone have any ideas?
[ This Message was edited by: Bobamelius on 2006-02-06 19:05 ]
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Borgie
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Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2006-02-06 18:51
i have the same card as you, and i never even messed with any settings or aything. only time i ever had no fps all i did was restart ds and i was fine
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Ospolos
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Joined: January 31, 2004
Posts: 567
From: ON, CANADA
| Posted: 2006-02-06 18:57
Now you make me feel bad 8'(
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Doran
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Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2006-02-06 19:19
try 1024x768
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Drafell
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Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2006-02-06 19:43
It will probably have no effect, but make sure Fast Write is Disabled. Then go into your bios and check your AGP aperture. A good general guide for this is to give your card the same aperture size as its actual memory (I think 128MB for the 9600 Pro).
Vsync prevents tearing of textures when the graphics refresh rate isnt the same as your screen refresh. For DarkSpace I recommend setting VsYNc on and lowering the FPS rate to 60, as you wouldnt notice a visible difference from a higher rate.
Go to the Run prompt and type dxdiag. run the Ggraphics acceleration testa and make sure they are all working correctly.
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Nim *
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Joined: September 05, 2004
Posts: 295
| Posted: 2006-02-06 21:28
wow u got latency of over 10k on that second screenie..
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Veronw
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| Posted: 2006-02-06 22:17
thats me everynight nim 
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BackSlash
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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2006-02-07 05:52
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On 2006-02-06 19:43, Drafell wrote:
Vsync prevents tearing of textures when the graphics refresh rate isnt the same as your screen refresh. For DarkSpace I recommend setting VsYNc on and lowering the FPS rate to 60, as you wouldnt notice a visible difference from a higher rate.
Go to the Run prompt and type dxdiag. run the Ggraphics acceleration testa and make sure they are all working correctly.
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This can have a very bad effect if your frame rate drops below the for mentioned all the time though!
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DOM700 [-IMO-]
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Joined: July 26, 2001
Posts: 3175
From: Eckental, Germany, Sol-System
| Posted: 2006-02-07 14:21
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On 2006-02-06 19:43, Drafell wrote:
For DarkSpace I recommend setting VsYNc on and lowering the FPS rate to 60, as you wouldnt notice a visible difference from a higher rate.
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Tell that the people proud of their 100 FPS, lol
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