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Thread: fps in space

TheDarkness4u
Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:11 pm
#1
is there any way to increase my FPS when i'm flying in space? it studders alot and drops down to 5 fps, hard to keep a rhythem and shoot people when i studder every 5 seconds and my ship flps around..



and is there any way to turn off those lightning bolt things?


thanks



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TheDarkness4u
Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:44 pm
#2
anyone? any ideas for improving my studdering p-p-p-problem?



my fps looks like this


30

29

30

29

4

28

30

29

5

29.. etc etc



when a bolt of lightning hits, its an automatic 1 fps. In the dathomir sector with all the red nebulas, its 15 fps, with studders down to 1 fps.




are there no options to turn down the graphics in space?



(also, is it normal to get 30 fps now? i thought the max was 29)



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bobafett4ever
Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:52 pm
#3
give us your system's stats. my FPS never (in space) drops below 22. then again, i have a very good computer



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HardwiredXMan
Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:36 pm
#4
2 things.....you need more RAM (preferabably 1 gig) and a better graphics card. Myself, I have 512mb RAM (can't get 1 gig just yet)....but when I upgraded my graphics card, all my problems went away even while still having 512mb RAM. even when lightening strikes and/or nebulas are in the back ground....my fps stays around 20 or so.


Some cpu stats would allow people to help you more, though generally RAM and graphics cards are typically the problem....unless your on dial-up....is so, then you have to get out of the cave man days (if you can afford to).
TheDarkness4u
Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:41 pm
#5
got a gig of ram and a ge force 5200 gc. no other game does this, and it only happens in space. i never get low fps on the ground, even in coronet flyin my ship through the starport area...



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HardwiredXMan
Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:45 pm
#6

Oh yeah, I also forgot that a few things that will help just a little. Defrag your HD and make sure you don't have any other processes running in the background that you don't need.....for instance, people who use Internet explorer and like to have the forums open while in-game will usually have that program taking up valueable resources.....I.E. is known to have memory leaks and can suck a lot of resources from your game. I always check my system resources and sure enough every once in a while, I.E. is using way too much memory.


So keep your system clean, get more RAM, get a better graphics card. If you want to sacrifice visual quality, then turn off V-sync, disable some of the options under the game options in the launch pad. Also, if you use windows xp, turn of the visual themes (gives a small speed increase....not much, but it is noticeable)....


These are all things that I do or have done....so despite what anyone says, it may or may not work for you....just depends on what your cpu is like.


HardwiredXMan
Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:55 pm
#7




TheDarkness4u wrote:

got a gig of ram and a ge force 5200 gc. no other game does this, and it only happens in space. i never get low fps on the ground, even in coronet flyin my ship through the starport area...






could be either your connection, if it's peek times your playing at or just plain and simple server instability on SOE's part.....I had the same problem you are having when I was playing beta....but since JTL has gone live, I haven't had any problems.....I haven't changed anything between the 2 periods either except those few adjustments I made at the beginning of beta.


Ultimately though, I think it's your graphics settings because if you don't have these problems in the ground game and it only happens with lightening, then it's more likely the particle effects causing the low FPS.....personally I try and keep particle effects as low as possible without hurting visual quality because my system can't handle high particle effects.

Konke
Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:37 am
#8

I'm just guessing, but it could be that your graphic card doesn't work so well with some of the technology JtL uses. Like you said, you have lightning problems, and that might perhaps be something your graphic card isn't constructed to handle well. Maybe you get these problems in space becuase the game doesn't use the same technology in space like on the ground. Just guessing


Oh... and just wondering. When you talk about all these FPS, are you telling us the numbers when you have everything set to high or low?


And by having a computer with 1GB ram, Radeon 9800Pro andAMD Athlon 64 3200+ and everything is set to highest possible, I get about 10-20 FPS in average. Is this OK or should my computer be able to handle the game even better?





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TheDarkness4u
Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:01 am
#9
everything is set to lowest quality or disabled.


both in game options and options from the launch pad.




cable connection, steady 70 ping, my connection isnt a problem



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havoc28
Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:53 pm
#10
I recently encountered this problem and traced it to the new DirectX 9.0c.
I bought Star Wars: Battlefront and it needed DirectX 9.0c, no problem I figured.
Only now SWG gets such horrid graphical lag it acts like it did before I bought my new system.

So I ran some experiments, I formatted, and installed strictly SWG with DirectX 9.0a and things were great.
I installed everything else I keep on my system EXCEPT for Battlefront. I even upgraded to DirectX 9.0b.

Everything was fine up to the point I installed Battlefront, which will ONLY play with DirectX 9.0c, the second I did that SWG went to hell.

CSR's, Devs, everyone I've talked to shrugs it off.

I've run this experiment 3 times, there's no doubt there's a problem with the way SWG handles the new DirectX 9.0c.

All other games run fine, except galaxies.

For what it's worth, if youv'e installed DirectX 9.0c that's C then you are probably experiencing the same problem I am.



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HardwiredXMan
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:27 am
#11




havoc28 wrote:
I recently encountered this problem and traced it to the new DirectX 9.0c.
I bought Star Wars: Battlefront and it needed DirectX 9.0c, no problem I figured.
Only now SWG gets such horrid graphical lag it acts like it did before I bought my new system.

So I ran some experiments, I formatted, and installed strictly SWG with DirectX 9.0a and things were great.
I installed everything else I keep on my system EXCEPT for Battlefront. I even upgraded to DirectX 9.0b.

Everything was fine up to the point I installed Battlefront, which will ONLY play with DirectX 9.0c, the second I did that SWG went to hell.

CSR's, Devs, everyone I've talked to shrugs it off.

I've run this experiment 3 times, there's no doubt there's a problem with the way SWG handles the new DirectX 9.0c.

All other games run fine, except galaxies.

For what it's worth, if youv'e installed DirectX 9.0c that's C then you are probably experiencing the same problem I am.





that's interesting....I have directx 9.0c and windows xp sp2 along with the latest nvidia drivers for my graphics card, have installed and have much fun playing battlefront....but swg has not had any problems whatsoever.....it plays the same as before I installed battlefront....although I had directx 9.0c installed before I even had battlefront.


I'd suggest checking your card manufacturer's support forum for any kind of problems similar to yours either with SWG or any other games. Then update all your systems drivers from bios to sound card to graphics card..everything but only after you research if you need to or not...sometimes you just don't need to.


well, I"m all out of suggestions...hope you find a fix

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