Orangina_Rouge Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Well Everyone is aware that drain is maybe a little too much useful , so am i and that s why i use it while playing dark side The thing i would like to point is that Drain also has a pretty weird effect I figured it while playing Team FFA games when there is sometimes a lot of ennemies at same time.......when i drain a lot of ppl i experience a severe drop of framerate and run at like 10 FPS (Normally i run at approximatively 20 - 25 FPS on average ....more or less depending if in/outdoor) Pretty strange considering lighning produce the same sort of visual effect and no side effect like this So anyone experiencing this too ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 I have had this happen on numerous occassions! Everything will be going smoothly and then drain pops out and there is a sound like rushing water and the FPS drops to almost nothing for about 5 seconds or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaberPro Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Probably Force Drain gives more weirdo color to the screen? Therefore, the lost in framerates? I thought Drain was only reddish...and somewhat growning/spreading on a person... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthtoast Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Yes I have the same problem. Quite annoying cause my computer kinda locks up for a second and suddenly I'm across the room. Ticks me off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrEEpaGe Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 well you are affecting more people...it could be that you are having to send more stuff than if you were draining one person (i have no idea heh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangina_Rouge Posted April 5, 2002 Author Share Posted April 5, 2002 Well being a little competent in 3D game programming, i don t think it s about the color it produces The fact is i don t see WHY the FPS drops and apparently i m not alone to experience this .......personnally i think it s a bug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul-Burn Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Maybe the "flashing" on the enemy skin is what causing the FPS drop? Since lightning looks similar without that.. Note that lightning when hitting someone makes a different effect than drain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangina_Rouge Posted April 5, 2002 Author Share Posted April 5, 2002 Well in fact i don t care the reason of this Bug or not , there is something causing a massive drop in the framerate with this power which is NOT normal and if someone from Raven read this i hope they will fix this, or change the effect if it can t be fixed No one really cares about the kind of effect , just to notice that they are drained or they drain ennemies , and between an effect ( such minor as it is ) and rendering speed , i will allways go straight for Framerate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essobie Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 I believe it's because when you hit someone with Drain, it adds a shader effect to their model, along with the fanned out red lightning. Basically it's just putting too much on the screen for most systems to hang with. Essobie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolboi Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 Uuuuuuhhhhhh... before you start complaining to Raven about a bug, have you tried turning off shaders and messing with your details a bit? Personally I love the effect, but I can handle it. What does concern me thogh is how slow the game runs with bots. The bot AI does not seem particularily intelligent (less so than the enemy AI) and having 10 bots on makes my machine slow to a crawl. Perhaps I dont have enough ram... (256) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mIRC Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 I mentioned this in my thread about drain. http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39572 Yeah, I too think its the shaders that show what target you're draining that makes your FPS drop drastically. Essobie, got any configs for JK2 ready yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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