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by Monkey
Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:40 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: Highly experimental windows builds
Replies: 53
Views: 17552

i found out that disabling wall textures increases the fps by 20-50% Aha. There is no reason at all this should happen, ever since the early days of 3d cards, texturing has absolutely no speed penalty. I'd attempt a driver reinstallation at this point. Mipmapping is free on hardware but the bad loc...
by Monkey
Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:38 pm
Forum: Really General
Topic: PC Upgrade Time!
Replies: 26
Views: 7143

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-co ... er_display

/me can't wait till they come out.

I agree with what it says at the end of that article, that phosphor technology is so advanced (and becoming even more so) that they will be long lasting too.
by Monkey
Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:52 pm
Forum: Graphical
Topic: How to gain FPS
Replies: 53
Views: 16652

Lucifer: When JJ (Joe) talks about 200 FPS, he means his average FPS. In many servers, especially sumo, FPS can jump around a lot so having FPS set to just 15% over monitor refresh would be no good, a far bigger safety margin is needed. Mine fluctuates like mad (you must remember that people join an...
by Monkey
Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:24 am
Forum: Graphical
Topic: How to gain FPS
Replies: 53
Views: 16652

I forgot to add that display lists (both "create and call" and "create and execute") may cause Armagetron Advanced to crash (they do on mine). If both of these cause a crash while you are playing then turn display lists off (no this has not definitely been fixed...before someone ...
by Monkey
Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:56 am
Forum: Graphical
Topic: How to gain FPS
Replies: 53
Views: 16652

This is my first post in these forums even though I have been reading them since I started playing so...hi. What JJ has written is very good but not everything is how I said. We both agree that FPS improvements are essential. Here are some alterations to JJ's post: First of all, it is most likely th...