Dynamic water lagging horribly

Muse · Post by **Muse** » 01 May 2006, 01:01

Hey, heres my problem:

Whenever I load a map up that has water in it spring lags horribly, with an fps of about a frame every 4 seconds, and my ping skyrocketing to 1440 (usually). My CPU hovers around 0% and 1%. The first 3 seconds before the game though run smooth. Its just as soon as any units spawn (or game starts) that it breaks down. I have tried three different mods, maps with or without water (being the maps without water work as normal), extremely low settings with windowed mode, maxed out settings at the highest resolution, reinstalling drivers etc.

I have a GF6600 and from what I understand it does work on that card. In fact I know it does, because I see it working, just with extreme lag. I have also reinstalled the newest NVIDIA drivers, to no avail.

I know I can play without dynamic water but I really really want to see it

Also from what I understand the water is entirely reliant on GPU, might that be a problem, could my card totally hate computing dynamic water? Reflective water and other water like that works in all my other games.

It's probably something stupid I forgot =/

wazzledoozle · Post by **wazzledoozle** » 01 May 2006, 02:11

I have same problem. Any map with water and my ping skyrockets. I have a 6800 agp, and a 2.4 ghz AMD. (2.4 ghz not 2400+)

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 01 May 2006, 02:40

well same here... it's probably time to buy new (cheap) card again :D

Muse · Post by **Muse** » 01 May 2006, 02:56

Yeah but supposedly on the previews SJ has made the pictures and videos all had a GF6600 GT running them. So it must be something else...

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 01 May 2006, 03:02

well u dont have GT version of that card

Muse · Post by **Muse** » 01 May 2006, 03:35

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 01 May 2006, 05:51

can't render the pretty splashy water? Easy solution: turn it off.
It's as simple as that

...

or, if you don't already, play in windowed mode, it might help. I don't know why, but I can set my graphics higher when I'm in windowed mode.

Muse · Post by **Muse** » 01 May 2006, 06:09

Haha, I know I will have to turn it off, but I'm just hoping for a solution.

In fact, heres a picture of it turned on before a game. Obviously I can render it, but as soon as it starts moving all hell breaks loose. It must be something...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 01 May 2006, 06:33

Well i have had no prob with the water effects, thought in large batles it dose make my compy cry electric tears

hawkki · Post by **hawkki** » 01 May 2006, 09:53

I get something like 8-9 fps with the new water renderer and my computer specs are: GF 6800GT 128MB, AMD 64 3000+, 1024MB RAM, winxp 32bit

So something must be wrong when i get fps low as that. I have the latest nvidia forceware drivers installed.

edit: they had a newer version available, forceware 84.21, With those i get 11-12 fps when the water is in sight and when i look straight up in the sky i get to ~40 fps.

Flint · Post by **Flint** » 01 May 2006, 10:00

6800GT 256mb

1gb DDR400

AMD 3500+

10-12 fps with new water effect

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 01 May 2006, 10:10

XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 dual channel

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2000MHz HT 512KB L2 Cache

and obviously a 256 nvidia 6600....

I DESYNC!

that is right.. I lag so bad I some how lose syn with myself.

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 01 May 2006, 11:18

I have a X1600Pro 512. I turned the dynaimic water on (After installing the fix) And its still just reflective water. :/

wizard8873 · Post by **wizard8873** » 01 May 2006, 17:17

Athlon X2 3800+
dual 6800GS's
2048MB RAM

I don't lag, i don't know the exact fps i get, ill post it when i check it out tonight, but i dont get deformation from movements. if something shoots into the water, it creates waves. the other thing that happens is i get non-moving static looking water where the shot hit. ill post pics of this when i get home too.

LathanStanley · Post by **LathanStanley** » 01 May 2006, 17:23

Drone_Fragger wrote:I have a X1600Pro 512. I turned the dynaimic water on (After installing the fix) And its still just reflective water. :/

same card, same water.... guess we found a bug?

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 01 May 2006, 17:53

odd, the x1600Pro has SM3.
The card isn't very expencive and has nice specs.

Soulless1 · Post by **Soulless1** » 01 May 2006, 20:09

I also get lag (and I mean network lag) when it's turned on - ping instantly shoots up to 1999ms and desyncs as soon as the game starts (but it runs fine before that).

There must be something causing the water to send information (vast quantities thereof) over the net or something...maybe it's trying to sync the water with the other machines?

wazzledoozle · Post by **wazzledoozle** » 02 May 2006, 00:08

Soulless1 wrote:I also get lag (and I mean network lag) when it's turned on - ping instantly shoots up to 1999ms and desyncs as soon as the game starts (but it runs fine before that).

There must be something causing the water to send information (vast quantities thereof) over the net or something...maybe it's trying to sync the water with the other machines?

My ping also gets pretty bad, 300-600 and after a few minutes into the game I desync and the battle closes.

My framerate is rather low, in the 20's but thats fine. I can drop other settings to improve it.

wizard8873 · Post by **wizard8873** » 02 May 2006, 00:22

i checked my fps and its close to 30 when on land and 20 when over water even during battles. the fix solved the foam and the waves.

for everyone thats having issues, what drivers are you using with nvidia?

wazzledoozle · Post by **wazzledoozle** » 02 May 2006, 05:11

wizard8873 wrote:i checked my fps and its close to 30 when on land and 20 when over water even during battles. the fix solved the foam and the waves.

for everyone thats having issues, what drivers are you using with nvidia?

81.98 here
I havent bothered to update as all the new drivers just improve 7-series support.

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Dynamic water lagging horribly

Dynamic water lagging horribly