FPS Troubles, In need of much help!

[Khasigian]

Well, I haven't played in around 3 weeks, and when I got back around to playing tron, my fps was at 0-5. I can't play at all at this point. I know my computer isn't the greatest, I was only getting 20 fps max before, but I can't play with 0.


Please help me with my troubles.

P.S. Computer Illiterate Fool

[Z-Man]

Well, armagetron doesn't get bad all on its own from one day to the next; have you changed anything in your system settings (I'm assuming it's Windows) in those three weeks? For example, the desktop resolution and color depth from the display setup? On low end PCs, a color depth of 16 bit is best.

Things to tweak inside Armagetron:
- Go to "System Setup", then "Display Settings"
- there, in "Screen Mode", set the "Colo(u)r Depth" and "Z Buffer Depth" both to "16 Bit", then hit "Apply Changes"
- In "Detail Settings", set the texture modes all to "Mipmap Bilnear", the "Floor Detail" to "Textured Plane" or lower, "Floor Mirror" to Off and possibly "Alpha Blending" to Off.

What version of Arma are you using (it's displayed in the main menu) and are you playing fullscreen or windowed? It is said that 0.3 performs worse on some hardware than 0.2.8.X, so a downgrade may help you.

[Khasigian]

I had done all the things you said before you posted them, and I am using the new beta and I hated 2.8

[wrtlprnft]

If you're using 0.3.0 you can try the Console command FONT_TYPE. Try values between 0 and 5 (default is 3). That switches between different methods of rendering the font.