Damn radar..


(Term) #1

Oh well ive found out afetr all that its my graphics chip thats causing all this bother and ill just have to live with it or get a new graphics chip…

anyhoo…

i always play on a server called elitekillers.net and its really cool apart from 1 problem…the radar objective…i can play all other objectives lag free with a ping about 30 - 40 but i play radar and im the same ping but very very laggy especially in the grass. does anyone else have this problem.

P.S i also play on splash damage server as Blushing_Groom (lol bride :smiley: :clap: :bump: ) and the same thing happens

ty for your help


(Fenris) #2

Try the setting about drawfoliage referred to on Bani’s site (section default config scripts)
http://bani.anime.net/etpro/adminguide.html


(SwordOfDamocles) #3

OMFG, LMAO:

BB U’ve got a suitor!!!


(blushing_bride) #4

i know do yer think he’s after me cookies?

Groom/term/Terminator- are you sure radar is lagging becasue it sounds like your just getting really bad FPS. On my old system i used to get around 8fps in the grassey bits and that makes the game almost unplayable.


(Cue) #5

Well thers a couple of things you can do to improve your fps on that level,one thing you can do is try lowering all your details and stuff, another thing you can do is turn off the rain that might help a bit, you can do this by doing atmosphericeffects 0 in the console, try that it should help a little. :banana:


(DG) #6

you can make a script to tweak down to smoothen it out. You can use two scripts to set & undo tweaks, as since other maps are ok this may be the preferred way to do it, in order to keep it looking nice on other maps. In normal.cfg take the settings you normally use (from etmain/profiles/yourprofile/etconfig.cfg) and in tweaked change them to a fps tweak setting. Just make a new txt document with notepad or wordpad and “save as” to etmain folder, just check that it doesnt end up as normal.cfg.txt or something). For example:

nice.cfg
set cg_atmosphericEffects “1”
set r_lodbias “?” <- check your current setting
set r_picmip “0”
set r_detailtextures “1”
set r_drawSun “1”
set r_fastsky “0”
vid_restart

ugly.cfg
set cg_atmosphericEffects “0”
set r_lodbias “2”
set r_picmip “2”
set r_detailtextures “0”
set r_drawSun “0”
set r_fastsky “1”
vid_restart

Save the files to etmain and when radar loads, run /exec tweaked.cfg, and then after the map run /exec normal.cfg
With ETPro mod IIRC you can make it do this automatically (mapdefault_~.cfg iirc). Might be worth checking your preffered server’s cvar restrictions (/pb_cvarlist) before setting the tweaks, some servers like to restrict all sorts of stuff, particularily picmip and atmosphericeffects.

Anyone having fps problems fastsky is the first thing I’d turn off, on some machines it can have a significant efffect and yet largely goes unnoticed anyway (how much time do you spend staring at the sky?).


(deception5) #7

In regards to changing r_picmip for a particular map, I thought this required a restart?


(DG) #8

:wink: :smiley:


(Term) #9

my fps is fine guys and so is all the other stuff. I’ll just have to play the way it is :bash: so i got a crappy graphics card and i lag in long grass :banghead: …ah well, at least i dont lag on my favourite objectives… fuel dump and gold rush :banana:

P.S Bride i aint after your cookies i got plenty of meh own :clap: :smiley: :bump: :banana:


(deception5) #10

vid_restart

Ahh, good to know! Thanks!