- Bar Mitzvah
- Feb 24, 2009
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For all those having performance issues try these things:
1. Update your drivers (doing this increased my performance massively)
2. If you're running an nvidia card create a profile for ns2 (if there isn't one already there) and make sure it is set to use your graphics card (sometimes it isn't and will try and run the game off of your motherboards graphics card if you have one). Also set your graphics card to maximum performance on this profile (sometimes, for some reason, at least with previous builds, ns2 wouldn't use the GPU fully but this might be a non issue with the retail release).
3. Switch off Vsync, max out your monitors refresh rate (or buy a 120hz monitor because they are awesome)
4. Reduce your resolution, turn off all the bells and whistles (aa, ambient occlusion, shadows, etc.) and slap on multicore rendering and the texture thingy (I forget what it's called - texture preloading?)
5. Something to remember is that, as others have pointed out, on your first time playing new maps the load time will be quite high as it precaches loads of stuff. It will also do this whilst playing the map and you might get some hitching every now and then. After this first time the maps should run smoothly and the load times should be good.
One more thing; bring up the console (with `) and type in r_stats 1. This will show your fps and how much your CPU or GPU are struggling. What you should be paying attention to are the two top lines which have GPU ms and the ms by the fps. The first is how much your CPU is bottlenecking the game, the second is how much your GPU is bottlenecking it.
If your GPU ms is high, and your performance is bad, you might be GPU bound (or it could be a driver issue). If your first one is high then you might be CPU bound.
I run this game at max settings at around 80-100ish fps as a marine and maybe 60-80ish as an alien. I get maybe 1 to 2 GPU ms in fights, and maybe 10 or so CPU ms, but it's still really smooth.
My specs are i7-965, 4GB RAM, Geforce 560ti
Hope this helps someone.
This makes no sense to me.
Specs: GTX 680
i7 3770k (3.9ghz)
Shitloads of RAM
When I do training mode summit (exploration), my GPU MS is like 5-6 when looking at infestation. 70fps.
I have everything on high except Ambient Occlusion, which is at medium.
Anyone else having similar weirdness? I fail to see how someone with a 560 can be outperforming my 680...
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- Bar Mitzvah
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Make sure your video driver is completely up-to-date. Also I wouldn't use exploration mode as any sort of benchmark because it's only recently been not-broken and a whole lot of things that drive actual performance aren't going on in exploration mode.
Similar stuff happens in servers with 100% performance, and my driver is up to date. Really weird.
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- Bar Mitzvah
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AO is a huge performance hit, try turning it off and see if it helps
Turning it off seems to buy me like ~8 fps in areas with lots of infestation. This game must be a beast if it's even giving a 680 trouble.
Thanks for the advice though.
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