fps?

[porc-épic]

Whats everyone's average fps using the video stress test?

Mine was 63 on a laptop with integrated graphics :)

(with a lot of settings being changed though, it was 10 before I changed the settings)

[Hugo.B]

Which video stress test? whose?
Valve CS:S, Lost Coast?
Futuremark 3DMark06?
etc.

I currently have a passively cooled Nvidia 7600GT made by XFX - it gets about 110fps in True Combat: Elite(Quake3 engine multiplayer comparable to CS:S), and roundabout 43FPS in Half Life2 Episode2 using cv_showfps 2.

Is this thread for bragging rights or for the HaJ devs. to know what the client machines'll be running?:icon_lmao:

[porc-épic]

Bragging rights. :)

I meant the css video stress test.

[fess]

I've found the stress test doens't really reflect actual performance, on my current settings the stress test gives me around 120~ but in reality my average fps is more like 70.

[Ginger Lord]

CS:S stress test gave me an average of 220.2fps.

E6750 o/c'd to 3Ghz
4GB DDR2 800 RAM
nVidia 7900GS 256MB
1440*900 all settings on high, full HDR, no AA and 16xAF.

In HaJ I get between 60 and 200fps on all the maps.

[porc-épic]

wow nice fps

And yeah the video stress test isn't great for telling what fps you'll actually get. I managed to get an increase from 63 to 68 just now, obviously it doesn't sound huge but it makes the games more smooth, I get around 20-30 fps in-game which actually isn't that bad and it's playable. I was thinking of overclocking my cpu as that seems to be one of the problems for my laptop in on-line games.

In off-line servers just testing things out I get 40-50 fps but on-line I have a huge decrease in fps and I'm not really sure why? Is it my cpu? I don't really think the graphics card is under that much stress on-line than off-line.

[Ginger Lord]

Well offline servers you're only by yourself, online your CPU has to recieve and operate all the instructions from the server.

[Hugo.B]

More players on screen = more polygons, and with far more things happening, there are naturally more calculations to be processed.

EDIT: GL beat me to it. :)

There's a map known as obj_snow on a tactical fps I play, which having snow and therefore more to render, was open for exploitation to your advantage by using smoke grenades during a firefight, thus causing those with worse connections or GPUs to lag.

[porc-épic]

What I don't understand is that I'm getting around 15-30 fps in css but in dod:s I'm getting 1 fps, actually that's a lie it was 2 fps a few minutes ago :D

[porc-épic]

Well that's weird, it seems to be one of the commands in the autoexec.cfg I'll have to try and work out which ones it is now and take it out.

[porc-épic]

just downloaded dod... it runs worse than dods set to dx 7 whats going on?

[porc-épic]

I've managed to go from 65 fps in the video stress test to 100 an increase of 35 fps which is an increase of 90 fps from my original fps. I am very happy :D
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/1152/fpsspeedma7.jpg

update - I've managed to get it up from yesterdays 100 fps to 143 fps, the reason I suddenly got an increase of 45 fps; I forgot to change the default value of "fps_max" or whatever it's called.
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5961/fpsspeed2fs4.jpg

Fairly good for a laptop :)

[porc-épic]

Just got a new pc, 312fps ^_^

[fess]

Lucky bastard ;)

[Hugo.B]

312fps...
As the AMD ATI 4870 X2 gets 154fps in HL2 Ep2 max settings(bit-tech (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/08/13/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4870-x2/10))...

I'm guess that you are probably running more than one Nvidia 280 or AMD 4870s and have low settings in what I assume is DoD:S.


In which case you have got a nice PC.
Correct?

[porc-épic]

nvidea 260
core 2 quad q945
4GB RAM

It was in css though. So I'd get less fps in dods/ep2.

[Splatt]

Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4MHz
GeForce GTX260
4GB RAM

= 160fps on Source Lost Coast @ 1920x1200 @ recommended settings.

[Ginger Lord]

I should really get a new nVidia card, my 7900GS seems to be old hat these days.

[Splatt]

I should really get a new nVidia card, my 7900GS seems to be old hat these days.

Cards are old hat within months... :(

[babokitty]

You'd be better off with a better CPU. HL2 games are infamous for being CPU bound.

[Ginger Lord]

You'd be better off with a better CPU. HL2 games are infamous for being CPU bound.

My CPU is fine, Core2Duo E6750 o/c'd to 3Ghz. Just need Source to be better optimised for dual core, Orange Box engines are but its a bit flakey.

[porc-épic]

yeah and "Mat_queue_mode 2" doesnt seem to do anything for my quad core :@

[Hugo.B]

So who here bought a pre-assembled computer and who built it?

I built, and it stood me in good stead during the hardware side of an HNC in computing.
That said, buying can be cheaper and a lot less hassle than building it yourself.

[fess]

Hmm, maybe less hassle but generally you can build a PC to the equivalent of say one of Dell's XPS systems for less.

[Ginger Lord]

Mines a mix. Originally was made for my by a small local pc company to exactly my spec's, for only £50 more than what I could do it for.

Over the years it has been me updating and swapping parts, only thing left from original is one of the 160GB HDD's.

[babokitty]

Heh, I'm still using a AMDx2 3800+ from 3 years ago. Even back then, the CPU was bottlenecking my NV6800GS in DOD:S.

Nowadays, I get 50FPS min with "mat_queue_mode 2" on the OB Engine DOD:S and no smoke lag. On the other hand, I occasionally dip down to 25FPS min on TF2.

As long as H&J doesn't use extensive particles and physics like TF2, should run fine for most systems.

[Hugo.B]

May I ask what "mat_queue_mode 2" does? This is the first time I've heard of it.

I have an AMD 4400 x2 @2.5GHz, 2GB RAM, and a 7600GT - would this command be of any benefit to me as respects improving framerates?

[Jed]

I heard it mentioned on the Steampowered forums a while ago and that it enables Sources in-development multi-core code for Duo and Quad core processors.

-1 : force off
0 : off
1 : Hyperthreading
2 : Multithreading

Apparently mode 2 can be a bit buggy but there supposed fixes:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=694944

[Hugo.B]

I turned everything onto full detail, loaded the start of Ep2, and entered mat_queue_mode 2. It caused a leap in fps from 19 to 70, but at the same time was jerky as if there were low fps, so yep, it needs a lot of optimizing.

It requires a fair bit of fiddling with the other commands mentioned on the steampowered forums to get any resemblance of smoothness.