my fps are getting eaten until i have 0 left

[hsnow]

my fps keeps getting eaten and it goes from 50+ to 0 in a matter of minutes how do i fix this so my fps dont always get eaten alive

[Hoax]

Always keep your computer well fed.

[wrtlprnft]

Hmm, my framerate is greater than 10fps AND between 20fps and 30fps.
Which option should I vote for? What's the point of this poll?

Can you be more specific about your system?

[philippeqc]

[quote="wrtlprnft"]Hmm, my framerate is greater than 10fps AND between 20fps and 30fps.
Which option should I vote for? [quote]
Pfff, you think you have it hard!!!! MY system is both greater than 10 AND "90-100 or 100+"

hsnow: lowering your resolution always help. Dropping visual option too.

/ph

[hsnow]

if i make my resolution any lower than 1024x768 then it will screw up really bad

[hsnow]

Hmm, my framerate is greater than 10fps AND between 20fps and 30fps.
Which option should I vote for? What's the point of this poll?

Can you be more specific about your system?

im using Windows Vista Premium with an Acer Aspire 5610-4491 with Intel Duo Core Processer T2250 (1.73 GHz, 533 MHz FBS, 2MB cache)
is that specific enough for you or do you need my IP address, my DNS, my phone number, my blood type, my email address, my regular address (do i need to go on with the list?)

[Jonathan]

Yes, and we need pictures and a history of where you've been in the last three years, too.

Can you get other drivers for your GPU? Windows' standard drivers are known to be bad for OpenGL, and it's worse with Vista.

[philippeqc]

if i make my resolution any lower than 1024x768 then it will screw up really bad

"IT" being your monitor or the game? It is possible to change the game resolution to be less than that of the monitor (even worked on a 1024x768 lcd on my laptop, on which I ran the game at the flashy resolution of 320x200). But your configuration is not mine.

is that specific enough for you or do you need my IP address, my DNS, my phone number, my blood type, my email address, my regular address (do i need to go on with the list?)

No need to be nasty because he pointed out mistake in the poll you raised and question the purpose you are trying to achieve with it.

Can you be more specific about your system?

im using Windows Vista Premium with an Acer Aspire 5610-4491 with Intel Duo Core Processer T2250 (1.73 GHz, 533 MHz FBS, 2MB cache)[/quote]

One last relevant piece of info about your system you forgot to mention: the graphic card! Acer Aspire, that sound like a laptop. Usually laptops have integrated graphic card with quite mid-range accelerated 3D support (hence my choice of resolution on my laptop). See that you have the latest drivers for your hardware (not the ones downloaded from Microsoft web site, you need to go to the manufacturer of the chipset and/or Acer's web site).

Also, you should know that Microsoft decided that Vista would not have accelerated support for OpenGL, only for DirectX (*). This game is OpenGL. This mean that the processor doesn't get any help to do the drawing from the graphic card, which might be source of the performance drop you observe. I've heard through the branches (it must be z-man who said it) that some video card company (might be nVidia/ATI) actually offer OplenGL accelerated drivers for their chipset. See if this is the case for you.

I hope something in there is of help to you.

-ph
* My sources on that are quite old, they might have changed this decision. You should contact Microsoft to know what is the status of this.

FYI:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ with a GeForce 6600 running at 1280x1024 on Linux (Ubuntu) with all options turn on: the game start at 250-300 and will soon stabilize at ~45fps on a network game. Sampling of 1 server.

Edit: Jonathan already took the "GPU + OpenGL + Windows = no fun" angle.