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Anonymous - Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:42 am
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I was wondering how could I lower my FPS lag? Is thei r anything in settings that can help?

Maverick - Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:49 am
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Try lowering your resolution, try playing in windowed mode if you are playing fullscreen (or fullscreen if you are playing windowed).

Click View/Options/ tab 'Graphics' / try lowering your Color Depth. (And you can try unchecking different items at the same page)
On the 'Other' tab you can try unchecking 'Use Optional Level Graphics and Sound'.
On the 'Display' tab you can try setting different parts to 'Text'.

Let me know if it works.

Chambahs - Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:03 pm
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someone post the thing that shanky put up for low FPS, im too lazy to look

Agurus - Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:22 pm
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Summit I wrote for Halo:

About FPS lag, and how to cure.

FPS stands for FRAME PER SECOND.

You’re screen is probably moving very slowly and sluggish, and you are not lagging.
Main reason? Your graphic card sucks.

How to fix?

Cure 1: Usually if you change your resolution, it really helps. For standard try 800x600.

Cure 2: Try going lower than 800x600; 512x384 is guaranteed to work you will just need to get rid of the chat (?lines=0) and F1 (hit f1 multiple times)

Cure 3: If you don’t want to go lower than 800x600 go to windows mode, that always helps.

Cure 4: Replace your graphic card; it really does suck.

Cure 5: Place your CPU carefully over an edge of 32 story building, carefully take a metal bat, and blissfully swing as hard as you can causing a strong enough reaction for the CPU to fly off the edge. Check back down on your CPU and be happy, and ask your parents for a new one.

Purge - Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:37 pm
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That is basically what MMav said...

No, you're not funny.

Anonymous - Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:15 am
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how can u check ure fps?

Anonymous - Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:48 am
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Press esc and then "f" when in-game. It will show in red numbers near the top center.

Cyan~Fire - Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:00 am
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Does windowed mode really improve over fullscreen? I'd think it would just have to work harder, actually.

Chambahs - Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:56 am
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Windows lowers FPS for me, so whenever i need to play good i have to go fullscreen

Ori Klein - Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:26 pm
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As said, you can use lower resolution (since when is this an acceptable solution).
There are a lot of graphical options you can turn off.
There are also a lot of advanced settings where you can choose if to force certain graphical elements into the GFX card buffer.

Eitherway, at the end, getting a better 3D card will be the only long(er)-term remedy.

Anonymous - Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:51 pm
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what is average fps?

Ori Klein - Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:22 pm
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It's different for every person.

Chambahs - Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:35 pm
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my old friend in SS (Apocalypse 2000) used to have an ave FPS of 500+, he spent like 5 grand on his computer last time i talked to him

Purge - Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:05 am
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I have 200 FPS under a 16-bit color depth.

Cyan~Fire - Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:51 am
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Hmm. The normal 60 is enough for me. I guess I'm only human after all...

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:37 am
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Anything beyond your refresh rate is a waste. So in general, 60+ is about as good of a target as you'll need.

Ori Klein - Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:21 am
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Indeed.

In addition, below 30 fps your gaming experience will begin to suffer whilst reaching 11fps, as a pit-bottom dead-mark, your game will act-up half frozen.

Muskrat - Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:44 am
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~235 on 32bit 1280x1024 and 1 other ship on screen.

Smong - Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:22 pm
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I can 500 fps on low settings and the screen completely covered in tiles, otherwise 1000-1500 flying around.

Enough of this digression:
http://www.subspacedownloads.com/index.php?act=help&c=tweak_ss

Lython - Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:33 am
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Advanced Options window
Check Avoid page flipping
Check No frame rate limit
Uncheck Software emulation

Doing this made my avg FPS from 60-100 to 300-500.

Mr Ekted - Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:39 am
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Anything > 100 FPS is a waste of CPU. Continuum updates its physics 100 times/sec. So, for example, if you are getting 200 FPS, it's just drawing the exact same screen twice each time.

Lython - Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:34 pm
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But it just makes you feel good inside

Cyan~Fire - Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:23 pm
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The CPU heat feels nice on a winter day.