Major fps drop:S

maarten144 · Post by **maarten144** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:27 am

Hi lads lately im having major fps drop problems and i cant seem to find the problem. Here's what happened. I downloaded ragner-x-s config and with his help i adjusted it. Then i found out it was too sucky and i made some mistakes. But thing was i had done seta in the autoexec so my etconfig was also set. So i thought to myself lets be a smart guy and reinstall ET. I reinstalled it and it didnt play properly so i made a very small autoexec.cfg with a couple of cvars in it so i set picmip to 2 lodbias to 3, amtosphericeffects 0 shadow 0 dynamiclight 0 r_mode is 4. Everything was fine at my own server (that lw thingy with etpro 3.1.0) but today i went to AWA and Astra server and on normal maps like oasis and fueldump i had an fps of 9!!!!!!!!!!! Has someone got any ideas for me? cause im so confused :'(

Deus · Post by **Deus** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:23 am

install gfx driver and make et not using softwarerender

Nail · Post by **Nail** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:19 am

he's trying to play with a 555 mhz CPU with 192 meg RAM and a geforce 2

maarten144 · Post by **maarten144** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:39 pm

lol nail ive been playing like that for over 2 years with ET now and never had i had so much problems....

Nail · Post by **Nail** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:01 pm

quick answer then is, go back to your old config

Deus · Post by **Deus** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:47 pm

IIUHC he has no backup of his former config

Locked_On · Post by **Locked_On** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:28 am

If you delete the etconfig.cfg in your profile directory, everything should go back to default. In the future, always make a backup before you start changing things. Also, it is smart to load all of your settings from a config file instead of counting on etconfig.cfg. That way, you akways know what all of your settings are and you can easily change them. This is a much better method than changing settings with the GUI and/or the console. At this point, all you can do is play with your settings until you get to the performance you want.

With the 2 servers, are they both etpro? If they are different mods then they are probably loading different configs. Look for the appropriate etconfig.cfg in the profiles folder of that particular mod.

maarten144 · Post by **maarten144** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:28 pm

but the thing is im not having those fps drop on etpro 3.1.0 on our own server afaik only on etpub, havent tried etpro 3.2. Also i made a config file but i typed in seta everywhere, so it overwrites the etconfig. but yeah i should have made a backup but i thought that it wasnt gonna be overrunning, so there was no need to backup something that i was not gonne mess with