FPS with new PC

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2 total messages Started by Glock Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:26

#283071

Author: Glock
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:26

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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.................

Re: FPS with new PC

#283072

Author: HyperCube33 (Life2Death)
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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