tip for more fps and smoother gameplay

[reifiedbeans]

I was messing around in the console today and found that even though I thought I had turned off anisotropic filtering, it was still on. So I'd suggest adding this line to your autoexec or just typing it in at the console.

 

seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic 0

 

Doing so nearly doubled my fps from about 45-60 to 90-120 on my GF3 Ti200.

 

[ACGe0rge]

what does that do to the graphics? I mean, does the graphic quality suffer at all?

[Mertado]

First, your graphics card has to support it. Second, it has a similar effect to FSAA, but it doesn't have to draw 2-3 frames per actual shown frame. After turning it off, I could definitely tell it wasn't there. Lightsabers don't look nearly as smooth and blurred as with it on, and you see a whole lot more jaggie lines with it off. However, if you need that speed boost (I don't), it's there for you.

[Joe Vegas]

Of coarse it affects your graphics quality but if you are having problems with low frame rates, you don't turn all your graphics quality to high res, it's fairly simple to understand, it's either one or the other.

[mj_sf]

I have it set to '1' on my radeon. seems to work ok. ie. no stutter even with 50 stormies flyin through the air on bespin

 

the single player lag was really bad when i first installed, i thought this was the problem. it turned out that just pressing 'default' on the graphics settings, closing the program and re-opening, then re-doin all the graphics settings did the trick.

 

regards,

 

mj_sf:jawa

[reifiedbeans]

Not really. You shouldn't see any difference in the light saber or the jaggies.

 

Read this for more info on what anisotropic does:

 

http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/geforce/geforce-5.shtml