low fps since etpro 3.0.0 & 3.0.1

Post by **bani** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 4:34 pm

it's disk access from windows filesystem cache.

christa · Post by **christa** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:06 pm

SoL i couldnt see it on my demos either

Bubbu · Post by **Bubbu** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:14 pm

iam just wondering...with the new et-pro did the recoil change aswell???

Post by **bani** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:00 pm

KingJackaL · Post by **KingJackaL** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:40 pm

bani wrote:it's disk access from windows filesystem cache.

Otherwise known as the dreaded 'buy more RAM' syndrome

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PS: RAM prices are about to start hiking up with Micron selling out - buy NOW, or prepare to wait a long time before they come back down again. ( it sucks, but that's the RAM market for ya... )

Bubbu · Post by **Bubbu** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:42 pm

btw with the new et-pro i ment et-pro 3.XXXX....

christa · Post by **christa** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:10 am

bani wrote:it's disk access from windows filesystem cache.

pls explain that for a noob like me...what does it mean?

KingJackaL · Post by **KingJackaL** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:46 am

christa wrote:
bani wrote:it's disk access from windows filesystem cache.
pls explain that for a noob like me...what does it mean?

Read my post. You need more RAM.

christa · Post by **christa** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:16 am

KingJackaL wrote:
christa wrote:
bani wrote:it's disk access from windows filesystem cache.
pls explain that for a noob like me...what does it mean?
Read my post. You need more RAM.

512mb RAM and hyperthreading should be more than enough to play ET imo!

KingJackaL · Post by **KingJackaL** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:21 am

Yes and no. It depends what else is running at the same time, how fragmented swap space is etc.

For example, just before you open ET - how much RAM do you have free? 400MB? 300MB? less?

SoL · Post by **SoL** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:30 am

I have 512mb RD Ram with a 3.06ghz processor, i make sure to close mose unecessary processes while playing ET and i have com_hunkmegs set to 352, i think i have enough Ram to play ET right? It's not like i'm trying to play on 256mb, also...i didn't have this lag problem with etmain, shrubet etc, and older versions of ETpro, my paranoid suspicion is that it's to do with this "antiwarp" feature in the latest ETpro.

KingJackaL · Post by **KingJackaL** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:49 am

SoL wrote:I have 512mb RD Ram with a 3.06ghz processor, i make sure to close mose unecessary processes while playing ET and i have com_hunkmegs set to 352, i think i have enough Ram to play ET right? It's not like i'm trying to play on 256mb, also...i didn't have this lag problem with etmain, shrubet etc, and older versions of ETpro, my paranoid suspicion is that it's to do with this "antiwarp" feature in the latest ETpro.

Drop your com_hunkmegs to 128 or something. The most of that ET will ever use (in my experience) is 6X MB. And most maps see max hunkmegs usage around 4X MB. If you look for a file called hunkusage.dat, it lists the MAX MB's your ET used on each map you've ever played. There's one in each moddir (/etmain, /etpro, etc). Setting hunkmegs too high can actually HURT performance - though that's no guarantee that that's what you've got.

hunkmeg's isn't the only chunk of RAM ET uses. It also uses soundmegs and zonemegs... and I think there's at least one other chunk(s) of memory that ET uses not included in those. Also try raising soundmegs - above in this thread Rain mentioned that that's one chunk that is often paged. I've got 512MB too (XP3200+), and am currently running:

set com_zoneMegs "32" // (Increase scripting MB's)
set com_soundMegs "64" // (Sound MB's greatly increased)
set com_hunkMegs "128" // (Increase texture/etc cache MB's)

Try what I suggested in my earlier post ( it _seemed_ to help me... ). Turn off antilag ( in the etpro menu IIRC ), then turn it back on again after a while. I was getting some low fps in ETPro3 only too, but they've gone away recently. ( was very random and tbh I'm still not 100% sure what it was )

SoL · Post by **SoL** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:49 am

I was told that com_zonemegs and com_soundmegs can't go higher than 32, as in they can be set higher but will still max out at 32, true or not? Also why will allocating less com_hunkmegs fix my problem, surely it would be vice versa?

For the record i have sound/zone megs on 32 and hunkmegs on 352.

Lagger · Post by **Lagger** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:32 am

basically you are allocating so much ram to ET, that it pushes other programs out of physical memory and into virtual memory. you don't want to do this

christa · Post by **christa** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:49 am

God hates me...im sure of it!
Finally everything looked perfect...my FPS drops were gone after a reformat etc etc...but NOW ffs i have them again

FPS drops from 125 to 8 unplayable!

I NEED A KLEENEX PLS