Worst lag examples

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:17 pm

Lag is often predictable, but depending on the quality of the connection sometimes nothing is predictable at all. Post movies of the worst lag here (so not the predictable lag, not the predictable lag, not the predictable lag and not the predictable lag).

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:29 am

Of course, this will be much more useful if you wait for the next beta (or, for CVS users, until the recording branch is merged) and post debug recordings instead. They're smaller and contain much more useful information.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:49 am

I'll probably do that once I merge/start from scratch and it's in the next beta. But for now I do it like this (I chose a bunch of PNGs because there are not too many and it's probably most portable... I could include a QT movie referring to them).

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:29 am

Question: Why do the bikes in your game show up with head lights??? or is that what the position box used to be?

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:48 am

The headlights need activation, you need to change a file when compiling armagetron. But they don't appear to work for anyone exept Jonathan due to some weird graphic card issues...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:53 am

You just need ARB_fragment_program support.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:07 am

and that is???

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:35 pm

I.e. you need both an Armagetron version compiled with headlights and an OpenGL renderer that supports the extension ARB_fragment_program.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:06 am

oh kay.... so where do i get one of those thingers

Grogen · Post by **Grogen** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:13 am

Joe wrote:oh kay.... so where do i get one of those thingers

When it comes down to it Joe, it will depend on how new your video card is. If your video card supports pixel shaders (Im guessing above above ps.1.4??) than the driver provided by your gfx card manufacturer should support it.

Not saying that there doesnt exist a OpenGL driver that will simulate the fragement program in software, but this might be quite taxing on your game performance.

Basically ARB extensions are a way that OpenGL has added interfaces to new features of graphics hardware without having to bring out a new version of OpenGL.

http://www.opengl.org/documentation/extensions/

Even if the current version of the OpenGL supports the features natively I suspect you can still use the extensions because OpenGL is backward compatible.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:32 pm

now explain that to me again but think as if your talking to someone who pretty much only knows where the power button is. cuz i sure dont get it and it may just be a waiste of ur time telling me