PC: modifying your game for a better experience

(west13) #1

Alot of people are having framerate issues, i’ve ran across a few tweaks that have helped me alot - there’s probably some other ones out there. Figured i’d post what i’ve found so far

brink config tool: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1882626

^ lets you change your field of view, turn off shadows, toggle crouch/sprint/ADS, show fps and a few other things that you aren’t able to in-game (modifies your .cfg file, nothing illegal.) Note: anything higher then 70 has some issues in multiplayer matches, however - using a 70 fov works great, much better then default.

adding this line: seta r_useThreadedRenderer “2″
into your .cfg file, appears to optimize multi-core cpus much better… not sure why it wasn’t like this by default, but i had a large fps increase from switching it.

^ found off of this site: http://segmentnext.com/2011/05/10/brink-errors-crashes-ati-fix-no-sound-fix-freezes-and-fps-fix/

and ive found that turning off head-bobbing within the normal in-game options, made things feel alot more enjoyable / smoother, suggest you give it a shot.

(Nail) #2

ah good, standard W:ET things

(Progz) #3

[QUOTE=west13;297462]Alot of people are having framerate issues, i’ve ran across a few tweaks that have helped me alot - there’s probably some other ones out there. Figured i’d post what i’ve found so far

brink config tool: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1882626

^ lets you change your field of view, turn off shadows, toggle crouch/sprint/ADS, show fps and a few other things that you aren’t able to in-game (modifies your .cfg file, nothing illegal.) Note: anything higher then 70 has some issues in multiplayer matches, however - using a 70 fov works great, much better then default.

adding this line: seta r_useThreadedRenderer “2″
into your .cfg file, appears to optimize multi-core cpus much better… not sure why it wasn’t like this by default, but i had a large fps increase from switching it.

^ found off of this site: http://segmentnext.com/2011/05/10/brink-errors-crashes-ati-fix-no-sound-fix-freezes-and-fps-fix/

and ive found that turning off head-bobbing within the normal in-game options, made things feel alot more enjoyable / smoother, suggest you give it a shot.[/QUOTE]

I think this “seta r_useThreadedRenderer 2” command actually worked, but now that I exited outta my brink client it always crashes ever since I used that command.

(Gearbox) #4

Thank you for the help. This has helped my game run much smoother.

It’s frustrating to see options implemented in the code but not the game’s UI. I’m glad a full suite of options is available and that you packaged them so nicely.

(CENB71) #5

Any fix for 30 fps locked?

(BAD PEGASUS) #6

NOOB QUESTION INCOMING:
How do you add a line to a .cfg file? Can anyone give detailed instructions?

(Trodamus) #7

Bad Pegasus, you’d just open the .cfg file in a plaintext editor and type it in.

Original:

xxxxxxxx
yyyyyyyy

then you type type type:

xxxxxxxx
wownewstuff
yyyyyyyy

CEN, I was under the impression there was no FPS lock on the PC version?

(CENB71) #8

Mine’s locked at 30 :frowning:

(Padinn) #9

CEN, make sure you’ve got Vsync disabled, or if you have it enabled also turn on Triple Buffering for OpenGL in your video cards control panel.

(LorettaLouLatency) #10

Framerate can be unlocked by using this console command “seta unlockfps 1”. You will now be able to sync frames to your monitors refresh rate. I had this issue and after using this command was allowed to run vsync at 60fps instead of 30fps. Hope this helps.

(Kairus) #11

I was messing around with r_useThreadedRenderer yesterday, setting it to 2 seems to drop my fps by about 20.

(Crispy) #12

I should remind everyone that changing the game via the developer console is not supported and is to be done at your own risk.

It should also not be assumed that everything that worked in ET:QW works the same way for Brink.

Not everyone will experience the same results from making changes to the cvars.