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Low Framerate - Serious

by James Urquhart · in Torque Game Engine · 10/19/2002 (3:45 am) · 9 replies

In linux, with a geforce 2 mx card, i get around 30-40fps (<20 fps underwater in the test map)

I get a similar framerate even when compiling a release build.

I'd at least expect more fps than that... anyone agree?
Where is all the framerate being chugged up?
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Torque Owner Solaris
#1
10/19/2002 (4:27 am)
Hello, dont mean to come off as rude or anything but GF2 mx??? thats pretty old, and seeing as your still getting 20+ fps which is fine really and perfectly playable. I dont really see the problem :) I remember the good ole days of playing with 15fps on Tribes 2 with my old TNT2 :) . If there was any reason for the graphics cards to be chugging a bit (not that id know, im not very technical) would be the whole infinite terrain thing going on.

Torque Owner Very Interactive Person
#2
10/19/2002 (7:12 am)
Try running it in 16 bit or lower the resolution. Geforce 2 MX is pretty old. And considering its the MX and not a full, well its normal the framerate is that low.
20 frames per sec is still playable tough. I used to have an avarage of 16 fps with my TNT 2, and I could still run around smoothly (I now have a GF 4200 TI 128DDR...avarage of 260 FPS with peaks of up to 300 FPS)

Torque Owner Prairie Games
Prairie Games, Inc.
#3
10/19/2002 (7:32 am)
Folks... GForce2MX (other than being a somewhat crappy GForce flavor) is not that old... It is also quite popular...

I have a test box here with one...

Athlon 1000, WinXP, GForce2MX

800x600x16

80 fps in water (because of alpha)
180 fps looking at sky
100+ looking across landscape...

No problems here...

-J

Associate Tim Newell
Max Gaming Technologies
#4
10/19/2002 (11:39 am)
Athlon 800 WinXP Geforce 4 MX.. (1024x768x32 ... Id never run in 16 bit color :) ) I get about 35-40 fps. I should get more than that. I think the problem lies in the fact that it switches states in Opengl so much do to the fact that everything renders itself. The 3d pipeline could use some optimizations.

-Tim aka Spock

Torque Owner Badguy
#5
10/19/2002 (4:07 pm)
he never did mention his cpu ..
if its below 800 I think that is a fine framerate

Torque Owner Ernest
#6
10/19/2002 (5:30 pm)
Meh...

I have a Pentium 3 1.3ghz laptop with a Geforce2Go (which has significantly lower TPS than the lowest quality Geforce2MX) and I get about 15fps, max 30fps, rarely I drop below 15fps. (In 800x600 16-bit color.)

I really can't complain. The Geforce2 really is a substandard card compared to what is out there, and nVidia doesn't consider it a card designed for games anymore.

Torque Owner Daniel Neilsen
#7
10/20/2002 (6:02 am)
On my Athlon 1.2 with Geforce 1 DDR I would generally see between 40-50 fps

Torque Owner Nicolas Quijano
#8
10/20/2002 (9:32 am)
Wasn't nVidia warning people to not use 16 bit color on GF256 and subsequent hardware ?
I do know that's the case with GF256 card : running in 16 bit is rarely if ever faster than 32 bit, when it's not measurably slower, on top of revealing some nasty artifacts in Tribes II/TGE engine, ie Z-Buffer wars, etc.
Just a tidbit, 8p

Associate James Urquhart
#9
10/22/2002 (7:20 am)
I noticed that tribes 2 has some detail options in the graphics setup...
e.g "terrain detail","texture detail","shape detail"

Do these variables still exist in torque? If so, could i use them to increase my framerate in torque?