the fps saga !

[throdgrain]

last night i tried turning OFF the voice coms,to get more fps.obviously you still get the messages in written form,but not the psuedo-german "need ammo!" or whatever
when someone gets hit u still get the initial "medic!" however,which is quite usefull.what i wanted to know was has anyone else tried this? if so whaddya reckon??

whilst im typing, im thinking about getting together a RTCW wing for our clan ,{KEA}.this isnt a n00bie style "one man clan",but a large group of ppl with proper website etc.i just fancy plaYing a bit of league rtcw somewhere.anyone interested please feel free to visit our website , www.clankea.com and icq me from there.
cheers all!

 

[Chameleon]

Personally mate I think i'd lose an important element of teamplay if I removed the voice comms (I know you can see them still, but ..... ). I quite like them, but maybe thats just cos vanilla q3 never had em.
I would try setting the sound quality to 'low' first, before I disabled them all together. This should give about as much fps as you could expect from changing the sound;

seta s_loadas8bit "1"
seta s_compression "1"
seta s_khz "11"
seta s_musicvolume "0"
seta s_mixahead "0.14"

these are based on the q3 config, so should be the same. If not, search your rtcw cfg files for similarly named settings.

Ch@m

 

[throdgrain]

ello mate,
yeah dont get me wrong its just the voices turned off not the sound
im not sure about it myself really,or indeed wether i gain much fps,but its interesting to hear what other ppl think about it!
of course q2/q3 etc never had it and we never suffered too much,which is what made me think of it.the command is;
/seta cg_novoicechat 1
having said that,the way our team plays q2 some times i wonder if we sould have it

 

[Chameleon]

I think you might find you gain as much fps by leaving voices ON, but making the game use ALL low quality sound ...... as opposed to leaving sound quality at HIGH, but turning voice comms off. Give it a go and see mate, but as you said yourself, I suspect the fps increase will be negligible ........ especially when compared to what you might miss in comms, or even die while glancing down at the chat area
rtcw does seem to be an fps guzzler tho! I've tweaked mine a little (I still want the eye candy while im a relative newbie) but only occasionally see it peak at my com_maxfps 100 level ..... and infact hovers around 60 ish most of the time ...... which aint that great. I'll lose the eye candy later I suspect though

 

[throdgrain]

u using vortex m8 did usay? im using hq and i cap at 50,but sometimes it dips to 40.mind i dont think rtcw is as dependant on fps as quake ...

 

[Chameleon]

vertex lighting yeah. you dont get all the nice light effects on walls and stuff, but what the heck

 

[throdgrain]

well i tried the no voice thing but ive gone back to how it was its easier i think.oh well la di da