Huge framerate drop in the presence of certain objects (SVN)
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Turning wormhole animation off
I have a huge dropoff in framerate whenever the wormhole animation appears. It's particularly bad when you are inside the animation coming out the other side. I'd like to be able to disable the animation as it's the only thing that kills performance for me.
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disabling the animation is simple: just copy glow_net_stable.bfxm to cyl_stable.bfxm
however...I was looking at that mesh---really really low polygon count--nothing special... not sure why it's slowing you down---
my suspicion is that you're running at high rez---with a card like yours, 800x600 would be the max I could forsee playing the animation...
also it may be slow cus ships in the next system are loading
however...I was looking at that mesh---really really low polygon count--nothing special... not sure why it's slowing you down---
my suspicion is that you're running at high rez---with a card like yours, 800x600 would be the max I could forsee playing the animation...
also it may be slow cus ships in the next system are loading
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freezes..then starts up again I presume? or crashes for good after waiting 2-3 mins
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In the current dataset, it launches hundreds of ships in each system, and that can easily take minutes on slower computers (basically most of the fime from when you load a game to when you are in your ship is launching ambient traffic, so that should give you a good estimate of the amount of time it will take to jump to a system as well.
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That mesh (wormholesomething.bfxm) is using shaders, that's why it's slowing things down. Removing the specmap should fix it. I'll do when I get a chance, but it may not be very soon, so if anyone feels up to it...
BTW: I think traffic launch was made incremental to avoid just that. However, it may very well be that the time between ship launches isn't big enough to avoid an unplayable slowdown, so it may be time to tune that (in something_launch.py and related files). Also, if the game is running low on memory and swapping, no amount of incrementality will stop it from stuttering like crazy when launching ships.
BTW: I think traffic launch was made incremental to avoid just that. However, it may very well be that the time between ship launches isn't big enough to avoid an unplayable slowdown, so it may be time to tune that (in something_launch.py and related files). Also, if the game is running low on memory and swapping, no amount of incrementality will stop it from stuttering like crazy when launching ships.
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Yes. It freezes and then starts back up about 5-10 seconds later. It looks really cool when it DOESN'T freeze but it's not a bug that annoys me enough to complain.
Now, as far as my video card is concerned, I have convinced my wife to let me install Linux on the desktop (primarily her computer) which has an nvidia card in it. While I would LOVE to get this working smoothly on this computer, if worst comes to worst, I wouldn't be surprised if a change of cards fixes the problem. I don't foresee ATI helping me out any time soon.
Now, as far as my video card is concerned, I have convinced my wife to let me install Linux on the desktop (primarily her computer) which has an nvidia card in it. While I would LOVE to get this working smoothly on this computer, if worst comes to worst, I wouldn't be surprised if a change of cards fixes the problem. I don't foresee ATI helping me out any time soon.
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rename the programs folder where they live so they are not found at execution time
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Re: Huge framerate drop in the presence of certain objects (SVN)
Hey guys, i just downloaded VegaStrike and I'm still experiencing the big frame rate drop problem when in presence of big ships or objects - which you have been discussing through this thread, which by the way is the only one addressing this problem.
I was wondering if any solution or fix has been found, since last post has been written 2 years ago.
I tried with moving away the /programs folder but it didnt fix things up.
Here are my system specs:
intel cpu @ 1.73Ghz
ram 1gb
video adapter: Ati Radeon Xpress 200M Series with 256Mb of memory
running windows xp sp3
When i see my own ships or planets framerate is about 60/s
When i see big ships it goes down to 3-4-5 per second.
Any advice?
Thanks for your collaboration!
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I was wondering if any solution or fix has been found, since last post has been written 2 years ago.
I tried with moving away the /programs folder but it didnt fix things up.
Here are my system specs:
intel cpu @ 1.73Ghz
ram 1gb
video adapter: Ati Radeon Xpress 200M Series with 256Mb of memory
running windows xp sp3
When i see my own ships or planets framerate is about 60/s
When i see big ships it goes down to 3-4-5 per second.
Any advice?
Thanks for your collaboration!
See ya around in vegastrike space, if i can fix this!
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Re: Huge framerate drop in the presence of certain objects (SVN)
It happens... may depend on drivers, of course. And driver's parameters (set in Control Center). Try to tweak them to "performance" side.
Also, try to change details and shaders grade into vssetup.
Also, try to change details and shaders grade into vssetup.
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Re: Huge framerate drop in the presence of certain objects (SVN)
ok i fixed that myself by updating ati drivers to latest version.
But that has been a pain in the ass because ati drivers would constatly refuse to install and the installer kept saying "setup will stop because there is no compatible hardware for the driver you are trying to install" and that tricked me out into thinking i was installing the wrong driver package so i kept looking for the right one on and on... But first one was the "exactly appropriate" one and the only way i found to get it going was avoiding using the ati installer and rather letting windows xp ask me for a new driver (i did this by uninstalling the previous video device driver in control panel-system-hardware, and then by deleting all default ati drivers included in windows using driver cleaner pro 1.5 freeware so that when i rebooted, the system was forced to ask me for a path to new drivers for the newly detected video device) and then by browsing to the folder where i previously had ati installer extract the files to (C:\ATI\Support\_name_of_the_driver_package_\Driver\Driver\XP_INF), selecting the .inf file and then choosing the right video card model from the list.
It worked so now framerate doesn't slow down anymore... so...
..Hope this can help
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But that has been a pain in the ass because ati drivers would constatly refuse to install and the installer kept saying "setup will stop because there is no compatible hardware for the driver you are trying to install" and that tricked me out into thinking i was installing the wrong driver package so i kept looking for the right one on and on... But first one was the "exactly appropriate" one and the only way i found to get it going was avoiding using the ati installer and rather letting windows xp ask me for a new driver (i did this by uninstalling the previous video device driver in control panel-system-hardware, and then by deleting all default ati drivers included in windows using driver cleaner pro 1.5 freeware so that when i rebooted, the system was forced to ask me for a path to new drivers for the newly detected video device) and then by browsing to the folder where i previously had ati installer extract the files to (C:\ATI\Support\_name_of_the_driver_package_\Driver\Driver\XP_INF), selecting the .inf file and then choosing the right video card model from the list.
It worked so now framerate doesn't slow down anymore... so...
..Hope this can help
See you in space