Stuttering on t4 ?

[old.Lezek]

Hiyas,

Can anyone help me shed some light on a problem I have? For some reason I get really bad stuttering, almost like lag (but its not, my ping and netgraph are fine) on tourney4

I'm on a P3 933 with 256meg RAM and a V5 5500 AGP. I run Q3 at 1028x800 with everything on.

Any suggestions?

Kyle / Lez

 

[old.NightStrike]

bad fps probably. if its not connection then usually if your fps drops to below 10 it feels a bit like lag. You can turn certain features off though to gain fps

 

[old.venturer01]

not sure,
i know t4 is not a big map , but for some reason it hammer your fps.

 

[old.Quorthon]

Lezek

I dont know whether this is the same for voodoo cards but I used to have this problem with me geforce also. It was because the amount of textures used in that map if you are using 32bit colour is greater than the video memory of your vid card which causes swapping out to local memory and the stuttering you complain of. For Geforce cards a solution came with one of the detonator driver releases which introduced S3TC (texture compression) which effectively reduced the amount of video memory required at some loss of picture quality.

If this is not available for the voodoo cards, then u might try either lowering the texture slider down one notch, or going to 16 bit textures.

Q

 

[old.sjp]

its something todo with the shiny metal effect they use on that level on my geforce2, whenever its in view my fps drops to arround 50fps.

my guess is that is a multipass effect an hence hammers the card.