Ways to improve FPS

(n00ber) #1

Are there any ways??

([=O=]SMYLER) #2

Three simply ways to go about it :

  1. turn down resolution and turn everything graphical off.
  2. Buy the biggest hairiest arsed bitch of a PC with an AMD 3200+/P4 3.06, 3GB pc32000 memory, and an Nvidia FX 5900 or Radeon 9800 (or whatever they are up to nowadays.
  3. Some of the lads/ FF off ladies will maybe explain their tweaks to you.
(Ragnar_40k) #3

Here an excerpt from the reamde that comes with ET:

- Performance Boosters

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory allows you to customize your settings so that you can improve the visuals or decrease them. Some of them have a greater impact on performance than others. Below are some settings that will improve your performance, but at the expense of the visuals:

  1. Set the system options to ‘Fastest’
  2. \com_maxfps (set to a high number i.e 400)
  3. \cg_atmosphericeffects 0
  4. \cg_wolfparticles 0
  5. \r_fastsky 1
  6. \r_picmip 3
  7. \cg_drawgun 0

But be aware that some server admins restrict these cvars through Punkbuster, e.g. some force cg_atmosphericeffects to 1.

(Vaticool) #4

I have Geforce 2 MX 64 Mo + Athlon 1 GHz (now 2200+ :smiley: )

(I tried all the cvar changes but this has had almost no effect on fps :frowning: )

Making color depth decrease from desktop default (32 bits) to 16-bits
really helped me a lot … many fps gained :clap: :clap:

Since I play 800x600 16-bits color depth, I like radar map :smiley:

(Brinkman) #5

buy a better video card… it’s not 1998 you know

(Vaticool) #6

Are you talking to me ??? (with R. de Niro style)
It’s enough to give you a lesson Brinkman come’on :stuck_out_tongue:

This is a place I like in radar map… FPS shutdown


([=O=]SMYLER) #7

Hey Vaticool that fps isn’t bad considering your video card. Did you mention above that you have overclocked your 1GHZ Athlon to 2200+ ? :eek: :eek:

(Vaticool) #8

no :smiley: I just wasted €137.00 for 2200+ and MoBo :banana:
but I think the performance was the same with my old 1GHz

(chris) #9

say i was thinking, ive got my 2 year old pc, pentium 3 800mhz , and am considering to buy a geforce 4 mx (just to play on it once in a while) will it be playable enough? i do not expect the 100ish fps, but something around 40 would be good, especially when i try radar on this pc, the fps go down to 15 lol, anywayz u find it a good idea? i mean its extremely cheap, but as i only play et and have another pc i dunno if i really need it

(Vaticool) #10

I suppose you mistype something

In brief (these are approximations), I suppose you have AGP 4X support:

GF4 MX420 is same Memory Bandwidth as Geforce 2 MX
GF4 MX440 is twice the Memory Bandwidth of Geforce 2 MX
GF4 MX460 is three times more Memory Bandwidth than Geforce 2 MX

read here for memory Memory Bandwidth:
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=165&PageID=2

(Freedom[]Tickler) #11

vaticool has it right

grfx cards scale w/ system speed, so your p3 rig wont benefit from a grfx card faster than the geforce 4mx line. the diff in fps between a 440 and 460 prolly wont be more than a few in ET(as opposed to other games), so pick either of those based on what you wanna pay.

dont be a fool like the rest of us, who dropped alot of $$$$ and didnt get fuck all of an FPS increase :banghead:

(chris) #12

ta for the info :slight_smile:

(ydnar) #13

Radar is very fillrate intensive.

Using a lower resolution, 16-bit, disabling antialiasing and anisotropic filtering will give it a boost.

y

(jah) #14

inside pak0.pk3 (that is on your etmain dir.) you’ll find a lot a files including these 2:

preset_fastest.cfg

seta r_subdivisions 20
seta r_lodbias 2
seta r_colorbits 16
seta r_depthbits 24
seta r_picmip 2
seta r_mode 3
seta r_texturebits 16
seta r_ext_compressed_textures 1
seta r_dynamiclight 0
seta r_fastSky 1
seta r_inGameVideo 0
seta cg_shadows 0
seta cg_brassTime 0
seta r_texturemode GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST
seta r_detailtextures 0

and

preset_fastest_ui.cfg

seta ui_r_subdivisions 20
seta ui_r_lodbias 2
seta ui_r_colorbits 16
seta ui_r_depthbits 24
seta ui_r_picmip 2
seta ui_r_mode 3
seta ui_r_texturebits 16
seta ui_r_ext_compressed_textures 1
seta ui_r_dynamiclight 0
seta r_fastSky 1
seta r_inGameVideo 0
seta cg_shadows 0
seta cg_brassTime 0
seta ui_r_texturemode GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST
seta ui_r_detailtextures 0

hope it helps :smiley:

(Freedom[]Tickler) #15

the other option is to blink constantly all day. this will help normalize teh choppiness in ET, and youll play better

: )

(superarmydude) #16

i ave a nvidia ge force 4 fx 126 mb :beer:

([=O=]SMYLER) #17

NO you don’t and thats official.

(Vaticool) #18

The only way for you to have a video card like this is to own a RAM factory. :drink:

(Pavleck) #19

Heh, if you had one, you’d:

A. Know it’s not a GeForce 4 FX, it’s a GeForce FX
B. Know your model
and
C. Send the card back for defective ram, since it’s 128MB, not 126

I don’t even know why people still go with Nvidia anymore, anyway. THG compared the GeForce FX 5900 256MB vs the ATI Radeon 9800 128MB and the radeon at worst was just as good and at best tromped all over the FX, all while having half the ram.

(Freedom[]Tickler) #20

drivers

is why ill stick w/ nvidia - but both companies are making fantastic cards right now - truely a great thing for us consumers