Help Please

[Invader]

I have a problem thats really annoying me;

I have a striped down arma advanced, everything is off, i dont run anything while im playing and I get about 5-7 fps is there anything i can do to make it better?

Heres my current settings:

DISPLAY:
Screen Resolution: 320x200 (lowest)
Color Depth: 16 bit

PREFS:
Sparks OFF
HUD OFF
SKY and etc all OFF

DETAIL SETTINGS:
Font: Nearest
Objects: Nearest
Textures: Nearest
Floor Texture: OFF
TureColor OFF
Persp. Correction OFF
Smooth Shading OFF
Alpha Blending OFF
Line Antialising OFF
Pyloygon OFF
Floor OFF
Dithering OFF
Mirror OFF

MISC:
Sound OFF
Moviepack OFF

Screens:

[root down]

if you run windows xp, try changing the process' priority to realtime...don't know if you can do that in other os's

[Tank Program]

yeah, in linux you can use nice... possibly osx too

[klax]

That slowdown and jerky graphics are familiar to me

If you are in LINUX do this (post your OS):

It happens when you bad upgrade your video card drivers.
I'm sure you don't have DRI on.

Do this in a terminal and post your results:
glxinfo | grep direct

Post your results (maybe in your case it will be direct rendering: No)

[Zapple]

Hes Mac OSX jaguar

he also has Red Hat Linux

[Lucifer]

A lot of the 3d settings need to be at "system default" or whatever setting is fastest for your card. Contrary to popular belief, turning a setting down, or reducing the quality of the rendering, does not automatically speed it up. Each video card is optimized for performance within certain parameters and will suffer both above and below those parameters.

So spend some more time with the settings. I was able to tweak a laptop that only got 4fps until it got 20-30, with an ATI Rage Mobility.

[philippeqc]

You still have cycle, object and textures set to nearest. Try to turn them off.

Personnally, I know that sometime on my graphic card, no textures is slower that basic texture. So you have to experiment.

But overall, having a 3D accelerated card with a good driver is what will save you. The CPU can only do so much. God will blees the day where the driver for linux of the savage card is released! (I'm using linux and my laptop has one of these card... so I'm just waiting for it (*))

But if you do not have the bucks for a new 3d card/computer, you can always bribe a developer enough to motivate him/her to open the code and try to look how it could be optimised. But the new computer would be somewhat cheaper. The code is a real jungle.

-ph

* I know there is some things under development that I could get. I just lack the time to go and hack it for now.

[Invader]

I turned the object and wall off got me about 1 fps more; i got 300 bucks what can i get for that thats good works for osx (linux runs on my ps2 so im not gonna change anything on that)....and is canadian priced lol.

Thanks for your help.

[root down]

if you're upgrading, go processor, vidcard, ram (if your main objective is playing tron)
ie. everything else should take a backseat to a new processor (unless you don't have a motherboard, fan, case or wires

[Lucifer]

I turned the object and wall off got me about 1 fps more; i got 300 bucks what can i get for that thats good works for osx (linux runs on my ps2 so im not gonna change anything on that)....and is canadian priced lol.

Thanks for your help.

What do you have now? Upgrading is hard to offer advice without knowing what you already have.

[Tank Program]

Or of course, you could find someone who's good at programming on your os and pay them to tweak the game .

[Invader]

for my mac i cant buy a new processer i got to buy a whole new board they just dont let ya take it out and put a new one in lol....

there got to be one more way im up to 5 - 6 fps comeon

theres soemthing i can do.