Re: I'm getting a nasty drop in framerate
Posted by BigDXLT on
Mon Sep 19th 2005 at 3:28am
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Greetings, FNG here, though I've been mapping for HL for a while now.
Anyway, as per my topic, I have a room, fairly large, not gigantic by any means. The r_speeds wpoly cap out around 750, but on average are 3-500 as I walk around the room. Nonetheless, my framerate takes a nasty hit, based on the numbers that r_speeds displays for fps, it goes from 50-60 as I walk around the rest of the map (areas with equal or less wpoly) but in this room, I get knocked down to 14-24 as it jumps around. (The exact numbers aren't a worry to me, it's the drop. It's very noticeable when I walk in and run around the room.)
This is the middle of a natural-selection combat map. I've got a couple large func_wall's making up ramps using a big grate texture. Some large overlays on monitors, nothing particularly out of the ordinary for a ns map, I'd say. No models either.
Anyway, if anyone can give me any ideas on what can cause significant framerate drops other than r_speeds (which is all my searching has found), it would be a great help.
Cheers!
Re: I'm getting a nasty drop in framerate
Posted by Jinx on
Mon Sep 19th 2005 at 3:44am
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Could we get a screenie or so of the area to give us some perspective? Or the bsp might help, though tbh I no longer have HL1 stuff installed myself.
Re: I'm getting a nasty drop in framerate
Posted by BigDXLT on
Mon Sep 19th 2005 at 8:14pm
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Hmm. Upon further testing, with Hammer closed, (doh) I suppose the difference isn't that bad. I guess I could sum this up to paranoia. (I walked around some of the mods official maps and saw similar differences.)
Sorry to have wasted yer time.
Cheers!
Re: I'm getting a nasty drop in framerate
Posted by Atrocity on
Thu Oct 13th 2005 at 3:15pm
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you could go to your console and type +showbudget and walk around and see what the problem is. It may also be simply something like a spotlight that is casting dynamic light when it may not need too.
