*massive* Frame Rate drop - Possible shader bug?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:21 am
Not entirely sure what in the engine causes this bug, but it's making the combat aspect of the game impossible.
Whenever fighting capital ships and Plowshares, I'm fine up until the point at which I start doing hull damage.
After that point, the ship begins emitting red flames of some sort - which, I suspect, are the cause of this issue, in that my frame rate drops to 1FPS or lower while looking anywhere in the direction of the ship.
I've tried disabling shaders, lowering geometry levels, lowering texture size, increasing everything to maximum - the problem persists.
Either the game is ramming entirely too many particles out into space at once, or these "flame" particles aren't being rendered correctly due to either a design issue or a code bug.
Interestingly enough, this problem only exists in the SVN version that I downloaded, and not in the installer version on the main page (incidentally, the installer version didn't play music and the prices,etc. are a little less balanced).
My system stats are as follows:
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz*4
nVidia GeForce GT520 GPU
4GB of DDR2 RAM
300GB SATA HD
Windows XP SP3
I'm quite certain that I should be able to play this with zero problems of any sort, since most modern professionally-made games don't cause any trouble at all.
Whenever fighting capital ships and Plowshares, I'm fine up until the point at which I start doing hull damage.
After that point, the ship begins emitting red flames of some sort - which, I suspect, are the cause of this issue, in that my frame rate drops to 1FPS or lower while looking anywhere in the direction of the ship.
I've tried disabling shaders, lowering geometry levels, lowering texture size, increasing everything to maximum - the problem persists.
Either the game is ramming entirely too many particles out into space at once, or these "flame" particles aren't being rendered correctly due to either a design issue or a code bug.
Interestingly enough, this problem only exists in the SVN version that I downloaded, and not in the installer version on the main page (incidentally, the installer version didn't play music and the prices,etc. are a little less balanced).
My system stats are as follows:
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz*4
nVidia GeForce GT520 GPU
4GB of DDR2 RAM
300GB SATA HD
Windows XP SP3
I'm quite certain that I should be able to play this with zero problems of any sort, since most modern professionally-made games don't cause any trouble at all.