Tiby312 Posted August 29, 2008 Report Posted August 29, 2008 I installed windows XP and got it all setup and ran continuum and got horrible fps for the computer i was on. I have a 8600GT vid card and a 5000 64 X2 Athlon processor with all the latest drivers and latest directX and I am getting below 30-40fps on maps with many tiles. My crappy laptop runs continuum better. O_o I checked my CPU usage while playing the game and it is high. Continuum is using like 50% of my processor. When I play counter strike source with 11 bots it doesn't even use that much! Here are some things I did that didn't work.checked avoid page flippingchecked disable clippingchecked no frame limitlowered resolutionset to 8 bit colorset to windowed modesoftware emulationdisabled soundkilled all other programsupdated biosreinstalled nvidia driversreinstalled directX These are all topics with the same problem.http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=20155http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=7578http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=20012http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=9878All these people are having the same problem, and there is no clear answer. Is it something wrong with continuum or the hardware some of us are on? How can we fix this? And people who say the human eye cannot tell the difference between 30-40fps and 60-70fps are right, but wrong in this case. Movies are mostly at 30fps and it looks fine, but that is because they have motion blur. Computer games do not have motion blur and thus need a higher fps to make it look fluid.
Samapico Posted August 29, 2008 Report Posted August 29, 2008 Well, Continuum itself is indeed part of the problem. It eats CPU like no other. I think many other people had problems with that particular video card :/ reinstalled nvidia driversReinstalled the same drivers, or did you check for the latest version?
Tiby312 Posted August 29, 2008 Author Report Posted August 29, 2008 Yes I updated the drivers. btw I also tried running it in windows 95 in compatibility mode, but it gave me an error. =(
Sharpflame Posted August 30, 2008 Report Posted August 30, 2008 I too want a solution to this... so god!@#$%^&* annoying. I get better fps in a 3d game than a 2d game.
CRe Posted August 30, 2008 Report Posted August 30, 2008 I too want a solution to this... so god!@#$%^&* annoying. I get better fps in a 3d game than a 2d game. Yea same with me.
rootbear75 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Posted September 1, 2008 i usually get 20-40fps.. and occasionaly into 70s is that low?
Tiby312 Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Posted September 1, 2008 If you are getting 20-40 you are at an disadvantage to people at 60fps. If you are averaging 30 fps, and the opponent is averaging 60fps, the opponent is seeing you 2 times more than you are seeing them. They are getting updated on the battle situation twice as much and therefore can predict how the battle situation will evolve more accurately and react to it better.
Samapico Posted September 7, 2008 Report Posted September 7, 2008 I wouldn't say 30 is '2 times' less advantageous than 60... It's less fluid, but you get the information still at every 1/30th of second. However, when it's less fluid, I'm guessing you need to 'process' the image a bit more to know what is happening and react in consequences.
Tiby312 Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Posted September 26, 2008 The problem seems to have been fixed with the latest forceware drivers that came out recently. YAY.
CRe Posted September 26, 2008 Report Posted September 26, 2008 forceware? http://www.nvidia.com/page/forceware_geforce.html
rootbear75 Posted September 27, 2008 Report Posted September 27, 2008 forceware? http://www.nvidia.com/page/forceware_geforce.htmloh, its a specific software... i was thinking he was adding another term: firmware, software, hardware, etc..
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