Re: need some tricks to improve framerate in lg rooms


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Posted by CogKing on March 18, 1998 at 18:05:00:

In Reply to: Re: need some tricks to improve framerate in lg rooms posted by Elanthil on March 18, 1998 at 17:43:18:

> Running a P166 (non MMX)
> 32 meg 70ns np SIMM
> 16 meg EDO
> 4meg Mystique
> 12meg 3D Blaster Voodoo2(the best thing Ive ever seen)
> Room at largest dimension is approx 8 JED map grid squares at line every '1' on width, and is 3 tall.
> Approx 20 things in room incl. enemies, boxes, player, his xwing, and his faithful droid (now working beautifully thx to Cogkings note on sub-vectoring)
> FPS on my machine in 3d accelerated 640x480 w/ colored lighting active is averaging 30.
> Lowest FPS that lasted longer than a half second was 10.
> Lowest FPS noticed was 8.9 FPS while turning..this was just after level started, as the player negotiated through his first major turn.
> Highest FPS was in a view that had a number of things in it oddly enough...mostly boxes..FPS was 44.9 or there abouts for approx 2 seconds while moving/turning and 47 when I stopped for a sec.
> I'd love for someone to look at this level, but everytime I send something to the 'abadlevel' email, I never hear back about it :'(
> I'll remerge as many sectors as I can, but the prob will still show up.

What problem exactly ? You are not expecting yuor Voodoo2 to give you a
constant 60fps on a P166, are you ?

-CogKing


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