BAAAAAAAAAAAAW LOW FPS~!

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 27 Nov 2007, 12:57

those % values are relative, not absolute, ie, draw world is representing 95% of the spring's resource usage, not 95% of the total pc's resources.

try to .cheat
.give 500 unitname

and have them wandering a bit on the map, draw world % should decrease quite a bit

if you don't have anything else to display/calculate, it seems obvious for me that draw world represents the majority of spring's resource usage since there isn't much else to do

oh, and try to get quantum's fps manager and/or try to fidlle with values by increasing them, sometimes you get better perf with higher settings rather than lower

i hope this helps

EDIT: try also to diable vsync, it should give you some performance improvements

Complicated · Post by **Complicated** » 27 Nov 2007, 15:14

edit: Ignore this

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 27 Nov 2007, 15:22

settings.exe

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Nov 2007, 16:57

Vertical sync = FPS limited to your monitors refresh rate (60 for a TFT in most cases). Thus no improvement at all. Quantum's FPS manager won't help either when all options are turned off already.

This is pretty weird indeed.

PS: when tilting the camera on an empty map a bit I get about 520 FPS...

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 27 Nov 2007, 18:15

Near as I can tell I updated my nvidia drivers and it ran better but I also had to repair windows again. So my decision is to format once more and try and get a good clean install to eliminate any possible driver issues. After that I will concede that spring is borked. Something is borked in spring but something has to be borked on my side as well.

AF · Post by AF » 27 Nov 2007, 18:33

Nvidia drivers had a bug that meant that new drivers didnt uninstall old ones and uninstallers werent doign everything right either.

This was corrected a while ago but manufacturers still bundle ancient drivers.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Nov 2007, 19:25

Yeah, always install the latest stable or beta drivers.
http://guru3d.com

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 27 Nov 2007, 23:30

yah, I never trust drivers. The latest drivers for the 8600 were pretty recent. Like I said, I want to chock this up to user error. If after a fresh install with clean drivers I do not have a good 30-60fps with nothing happening I will accept spring's flawed coding.

after thinking about it, I feel that what I am going to do is quickly finish off a texture tonight, update the gundam site THEN format. I am not trying to dominate this thread as much as I am documenting progress. People often find a solution and do not post it on the forum. Hopefully someone will compile all this info and add it to the spring faq.

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BAAAAAAAAAAAAW LOW FPS~!