my dilema help

[VIO]

MP

duel

jk2radiant

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for what the above means go here you should read it ^

 

i have in my map a room with lava below a force field(look here)

but the really does havoc on the framerates! will putting another less dramatic TRANSPARENT shader there instead have the smae affect or will it raise the fps. if not what else could i use there or something i could use instead of my lava(i love that shader) to get somewhat of the same effect?

thx

VIO

[Machine_IX]

Try posting a screen shot with R_Speeds on it, that might help a decent mapper see what it is thats slowing stuff down...

[VIO]

sorry took those before i knew bout r_speeds i'll go make a bunch now

[VIO]

there ya do try that screeny link again

[Xcom]

I don't see any r_speeds.

[RichDiesal]

If you just remove the forcefield shader, does that fix the problem?

[VIO]

yes there are r_speed pics there just scroll down

[VIO]

ok i went back and deleted all my pillers and force field and guess what! no improvement im guesses that the fps im getting are because of my machine not the level but then again im not an expereianced mapper! any ideas on why my map is only getting like 20-30 fps

[Xcom]

I still don't see any r_speeds. I must be blind or I load the wrong URL.

http://thelair.dk3.com/

 

It was this one or... ????

[VIO]

arg sorry new link http://www.thelair.dk3.com

try that

[Xcom]

Hmm, okay I see them.

Triscount is generally okay, IMO. Must the textures/shaders.

[VIO]

so wat do u think i should do

[Xcom]

Difficult to say judging only by screenshots. I'd say reduce the number of textures used. Don't use huge textures (like 1024x1024 sized). Again I am not sure that this is it.

[VIO]

ok well i think the vine texture is pretty large

[Xcom]

What are your hardware specs, btw?

[RichDiesal]

By the looks of it, that's simply his video card struggling with layering the transparencies...

[VIO]

pentIII 660

MSI MX/MX-400 geforce2

256 ram

 

...so you think the prob is my comp not the map well i guess its both but when i remove force field the fps don't improve

[RichDiesal]

What about when you remove the lava?

[VIO]

lets me see

[VIO]

nothing fps the same

[RichDiesal]

Really.

 

Take a pic of the r_speeds and your fps while both the forcefield and lava are gone.

[VIO]

http://galileo.spaceports.com/~thelair/

[RichDiesal]

I see nothing with the lava and forcefield missing with both fps and r_speeds showing...

[VIO]

sry its

http://galileo.spaceports.com/~thelair/tech.htm

[RichDiesal]

Hrm...how odd. r_speeds don't look bad at all... the leaf ratings might be a little high, but I don't think that has any major effect on framerate...

 

I have no idea. You tried it on another comp?