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Article #283072Re: FPS with new PC
From: HyperCube33 (Life2Death)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:32
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:32
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Funny I've never heard of those funky commands.... "Glock" <not@mine.netsicky> wrote in message news:7PidnfMd7rzGVY7YnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@giganews.com... > Hi All- > Since the traffic here is so high, thought I'd post something just for the > heck of it. > I've had 2 replacement PC's in the last several years at work. This most > recent one is a 3.6 ghz with a 256 meg PCI Express card. But my framerate > was sucking big time. Trying all the tweaks and changes I could got me > from 35 FPS to 75. So I kept checking things in the config file and > removing/changing stuff. I finally found what seems to be the bottleneck > and now I get 130-150 fps. This line was in my config file (carried over > from who-knows-when): > > set gl_ext_swapinterval "0" > > When I changed this to the two lines below the framerate doubled. > > > set gl_ext_swapinterval "1" > set gl_swapinterval "0" > > > From http://f176.planetquake.gamespy.com/commands/cmd.html#give these are > described as: > > > gl_ext_swapinterval > Default: 1 > Values: (Toggle) > Description: Setting this to "0" will disable the use of the > gl_swapinterval command upon the next vid_restart. > > gl_swapinterval > Default: 1 > Values: (Integer) > Description: This is the time delay between frame swaps so long as > gl_ext_swapinterval is enabled. For fastest performance, set this to "0" > > > So I don't know if this will help anyone but id did me. > > Glock > > P.S. - See you on Urban Warfare server................. >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.28.186.77.MISMATCH!hwmnpeer03.lga!hwmnpeer01.lga!news.highwinds-media.com!hw-filter.lga!newsfe03.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "HyperCube33 \(Life2Death\)" <hypercube33@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 References: <7PidnfMd7rzGVY7YnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@giganews.com> Subject: Re: FPS with new PC Lines: 49 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <uTcZg.46$qN6.7@newsfe03.lga> X-Trace: pgpdkimbbbabbbpekannfilpcpbbolnmpciikeamkfljmpjmlhkgegmmhlhmdohgnakekiabbanohbnkpionfhbephfolipambifoooaedibpgndapnnnlacbddgpnaggolpanaadbokpicd NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:34:02 MST Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:32:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit