the sad part is, the first time i saw this email, i thought someone had hacked my webcam.. 2 things happened really fast, i uninstalled my webcam, and i stopped walking around in the raw.

? posted by OtZman

High r_speeds but no eye-candy !!! Guess it's because I'm a NOOB

Generaly caused by huge open areas, or a lack of visblocking in a group of smaller areas.

something that might actually warrant further discussion is EPOLY limits, since more mappers are using map models of late. This is a potential problem, since epolies can cause just as many lag/fps problems as wpolies. Part of the reason killboxes run so badly is because their epolies are high- all the item/weapon pickups and player models are being drawn at once.

also, players can replace models with impunity, so some potential is there for cheating if models are used for cover, etc. and not just small details.

1200 is max for me.

But I think most people can handle 1500 w_polys, since nowdays everyone got really powerfull cpu's.

5,000 is IMO tops for epolies, not because HL cannot handle more, but because there WILL be more after everyone gets inside and starts dying..

you get enuff bodies, and ammo packets lying around, and the epolies will top 10 grand awfully fast..

no one would in there right mind make a map with maxed out epolies before you consider online fragging.

it depends on the mod & playmode as well. in rounded modes of Action HL, for example, people start off with their equipment so there are no extra epolies from pickups laying around.

still, better to er on the side of caution I say. I got an AHL map recently that had a room with about 25 chair models and that area ran horrid even on my computer (GF4 4800se 128mb, 2700+, 1gb ram).