Dunno why but i have awesome fps at about 200fps and it suddenly drops at around 12.

Anyone has some tips?

What changed?
Did this happen with the newest Nexuiz version?

The game-caused reasons could be some certain maps that have bad performance and many player models in your field of view.

From 200 down 12 however is fucking significant and probably has other reasons like a weak CPU, humble RAM size, thermal problems or some software starting to process in the background.

But if you seriously want anybody to help you, please be so kind and give more information regarding your system specs and the situation when the framerate drops ("it happened suddenly when playing on one map"/"it happened after starting a new map" or whatever).

You should really consider giving all the info you can in any case of needing help.

You re completely right. I have:
AMD 64 3000+
Nvidia 7600GT
Asus A8N-E
1gig of kingston ddr400

I did some framerate research. It seems to me that even on lowest settings occur framerate drop like from 200 down to 120

on high from 108 down to 45

on ultra 54-23

Mostly this happens randomly on low settings, or on ultra when realtime shadows are processed.

Also i have read about some 64 tweak here on forums?!

Hope this gives a better insight:)

okay, 120 sounds likely better than 12, so you don't suffer any hardware issues, I'd say according to your CPU your performance is very well

The framerates you get (including the drops) are like completely usual and are mainly caused by map performance and the (still) awfully high-polygoned player models, like I already mentioned.

But never mind, you won't have any problems if your framerates don't run down to less than 40fps. Nobody is so mad and plays public with the ultra.cfg enabled.

And btw, welcome to the forums

Lol.. Well thanks for answer and thanks for welcome:) Btw i havent mentioned that this game is the first open-source i have seen with such a great graphics.
I hope it will be more optimized in future versions:)

Thumbs up

PS. I have watched video on ,,your tube'' and it played pretty smoothly, i wonder wich machine specs and ingame settings he was using?

Hmm interesting there was also some other guy having problems with a 7600. Maybe a certain driver version does bad things as one of our developers has the same card but its running fine for him on linux.
Could you please provide more info on fps? Open the ingame console by pressing shift-escape and enter tdem demo1 there. That will try to play that demo as fast as possible and afterwards print some info to the console and also to a file Nexiuz/data/benchmark.log were you can easily copy/paste it. Thats a rather heavy demo as there is lots of action all the time but the numbers might be helpful to get an idea about your problems.
For example my 6600gt give my on default settings: result 1910 frames 40.0350000 seconds 47.7082553 fps, one-second min/avg/max: 18 48 72
And on my 'low' settings i use for playing online: result 1910 frames 18.8810000 seconds 101.1598962 fps, one-second min/avg/max: 83 102 130

Oh well i have no idea about the specs used to create that video but its possible to record such a demo and play it at the highest possible settings and the video will still be smooth and fine. I could record a demo and create a smooth video with such a quality:
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000689.jpg
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000689.jpg
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000643.jpg
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000752.jpg

date 2007-02-18 16:03:37 | enginedate 10:40:50 Jan 23 2007 | demo demos/demo1.dem | commandline C:\Nexuiz\nexuiz.exe | result 1909 frames 153.9950000 seconds 12.3965064 fps min/avg/max: 1.0000000/12.3965064/125.0000000
date 2007-02-18 17:52:23 | enginedate 10:40:50 Jan 23 2007 | demo demos/demo1.dem | commandline C:\Nexuiz\nexuiz.exe | result 1910 frames 88.9150000 seconds 21.4811899 fps min/avg/max: 5.1282051/21.4811899/111.1111111

These settings are with everything maxed out on ultra plus vsync on and tripple buffering on(AA and AF are off)

Nobody is supposed to play on ultra settings. It's mostly a joke to burn GPU power. I'm not sure it was a good idea to include that one, seems people really are trying it.

So which settings would you reccomend to be set the most high?

And which nvidia drivers would be best? I have winXP....

I'd recommend using the default configuration with additional effects enabled in the effects option panel.

Nvidia's drivers are pretty stable, I wouldn't assume a particular version works out way better than another.

Please take a look at this thread: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=1316

Will check it:) Btw.. how can i turn on vsync in Nexus?

Wastelander wrote:Will check it:) Btw.. how can i turn on vsync in Nexus?

Open the console (shift+esc) and enter "vid_vsync 1" (that reminds me that i wanted to add a menu switch for vsync )

Neuixz !!!

with the console: vid_vsync 1;vid_restart

Sorry i thought its also in the menu but its not.. who needs menus after all

What about some kind of ehanced opengl32.dll version for windows? Does this exist?

*confused* I'm not shure what you are suggesting, but OpenGL rendering is provided by ATI/nvidia drivers. The drivers are closed source and they both refuse to release any specifications for their GPUs, so there is little/no chance no chance for any third-party ehancements.