HOW TO GET GOOD FRAME RATES AND GRAPHICS ON MP!! | Forums

[aj_hix36]

i have figured out finaly how to hack the horrible frame rates that are extremely apparent and how to make the game look very good.
i am using a radeon 9800 non-pro with only 265mb of ram on a p4 1.8 ghz with winXP.
by the way i am running it at 1024x768, although it worked pretty decent at 1280x1024.

first go into the system folder and find the default.ini file, then skip down to the winDRV.windowsClient area. change all the texturedetail things to high. do the same with the SDLDRv.SDLClient area. Move down to XboxDRv.XboxClient and change the details to high.

In the D3DDrv.D3dRenderDevice area, make sure the top 5 lines =True. skip down to DesiredRefreshRate and change it to 120, though i think any multiple of 60 works. Make sure that use VSync is True.

In OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice, make sure top 6 lines are true, and ReduceMouseLag is true.

Finally move down to Engine.LevelInfo, change the PhysicsDetailLevel to =PDL_High

If you have everything set correctly, it should drastically improve your graphics AND performance.

Please reply back to let me know how this works out for you.

Thanx

[aj_hix36]

i have figured out finaly how to hack the horrible frame rates that are extremely apparent and how to make the game look very good.
i am using a radeon 9800 non-pro with only 265mb of ram on a p4 1.8 ghz with winXP.
by the way i am running it at 1024x768, although it worked pretty decent at 1280x1024.

first go into the system folder and find the default.ini file, then skip down to the winDRV.windowsClient area. change all the texturedetail things to high. do the same with the SDLDRv.SDLClient area. Move down to XboxDRv.XboxClient and change the details to high.

In the D3DDrv.D3dRenderDevice area, make sure the top 5 lines =True. skip down to DesiredRefreshRate and change it to 120, though i think any multiple of 60 works. Make sure that use VSync is True.

In OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice, make sure top 6 lines are true, and ReduceMouseLag is true.

Finally move down to Engine.LevelInfo, change the PhysicsDetailLevel to =PDL_High

If you have everything set correctly, it should drastically improve your graphics AND performance.

Please reply back to let me know how this works out for you.

Thanx

[OdDmor]

I applied those changes and gave the game a whirl...only seemed to reduce my framerates. Then I noticed it was because I had just turned up a lot of my settings from Normal to High. I fail to see how that should have raised my fps. I adjusted it so all the settings you told me to high...I set to normal or medium. That helped.

[aj_hix36]

well, the main thing for performance is to get rid of the 32 FPS roof, which is the desired refresh rate divided by about 2. so if you change the desired refresh rate, you are able to get more than 16-32 FPS. but many people have been complaining about how terrible the game looks, so i was mostly killing two birds with one stone telling people how to do both. mine performance became better because my graohics card was able to handle it, and the FPS roof was gone.

[whackassman]

aj, thanks for increasing my framerate .

But changing those settings from normal to high has not increased visual quality.

But anyway, thanks for increasing my framerate

[Major_A]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by aj_hix36:

In the D3DDrv.D3dRenderDevice area, make sure the top 5 lines =True. skip down to DesiredRefreshRate and change it to 120, though i think any multiple of 60 works. Make sure that use VSync is True.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Not everyone's monitor can refresh at 120Hz. At 1024 mine can only go up to 85hz and at 1280 tops is 60hz. Find out the max refresh for your monitor and then adjust it to that level. If you go higher than you might have the "Monitor out of Range" message.

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[L_etranger]

only the desiraterefreshrate in opengl section remove the fps roof.
just use the refresh you usually use in other games

[braiog]

3 of the areas you quoted did not even EXIST in my default.ini file.

[hembra13]

That's because you're in the regular .ini file. Go to the multiplayer folder, and then go to that .ini file, and all the parts should be there. I made the same mistake when first trying this.

[HarkoninVSC]

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