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Intermid lvl 14 - gfx update rate makes it unplayable

by Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund · in Marble Blast · 03/31/2004 (6:02 am) · 6 replies

I've played my way through beginner and a few advanced levels, but I'm stuck on intermidiate lvl 14 due to extremely low frames per second.

On all the other levels I have 60, but on this one I have 4. It makes the level unplayable, so I'm stuck. I wonder what is different on this than other maps.

My system is an AMD 1800+ with a GeforceFX 5900 XT card. Windows XP Pro sp1. I have no problems in any other Torque games.

Do anyone have any clue on what could be wrong? Is there some hack so I can skip this level?

/Thomas

#1
03/31/2004 (10:19 am)
Do you have stencil shadows on? :)
#2
03/31/2004 (10:30 am)
Yeah - that was it. Seems to only be a problem on that level and a little on the adv lvl 2 with the money tree.

None of the other maps (until now) have that problem....
#3
03/31/2004 (6:36 pm)
Thomas,

You can bypass levels by using cheats.

Use the editor to open any level.

tilde(~) will open the console, then type $testCheats = 1;

remember the semi-colon at the end and case.

solo.
#4
04/01/2004 (11:22 am)
Weird. with your system configuration, I wouldn't expect you to have problems with anything framerate-wise. Maybe on a GeForce2 or something.
#5
04/01/2004 (11:29 am)
Me neither. And until now its only on those 2 levels (with shadows on). Turning them off returns me to max fps
#6
04/03/2004 (11:21 am)
That's indeed strange. I've been playing the game with my GeForce4Ti4400 and have experienced no problem framerate wise at all.

Maybe you should try another version of your graphics card drivers. They can work wonders sometimes if you hit a bug in them.