On "Low" detail settings my FPS range is 49-73
On "Ultimate" detail settings my FPS range is 44-77

There doesn't seem to be much difference to me whatsoever!

Doesn't this mean my FPS is bottlenecked exclusively by my Processor/RAM/FSB?

Specs:
E6600 Core2 Duo (2x2.4Ghz, 2x2mb L2 Cache, 1066mhz)
2x1GB DDR2 667mhz
8800GT

Nothing overclocked.

I can appreciate the game would probably only use one core, but this is still a little strange, right?

Thanks in advance!

Looks a good PC to me. and around 50 is pretty good. That's my standard FPS in american servers. You need to get used to it I think.

Wow, thanks for the quick response. That's fair enough, I just assumed maybe it ought to be higher.

Thankyou!

I've found out what the problem is, having both Vsync in Nexuiz and Vsync forced on in my Nvidia Control panel HUGELY hinders my FPS. Either on is fine and smooth. Hopefully someone else can learn from this

Np, I'm not really a Techie. I just play nex, don't wanna know much about how PC's works. I only know about video cards.

(techie is someone who knows a lot about technical stuff. Own word)

That's pretty low, I get > 140fps on most maps on my nvidia 6600-non-GT with my heavily tweaked settings (somewhere between low and medium visually). Try turning off some of the HDR/bloom/reflection/shadow options.

Expect single-digit FPS on "ultimate" - its called that for a reason.

Also, what display resolution and/or AA settings are you using?

Cheers anyway!

I was using default Ultimate and default Low settings and both gave me around 55 FPS, so this seemed a little odd to me. The display resolution I was testing it with was 800x600. The AA settings were off and 16x respectively I think.

The problem is now solved, it seems having Vsync on twice is very very bad for FPS!

I do now get >100fps with middley settings, which is good enough for me!

Your enthusiasm is appreciated, thanks all!

heh, my response didn't helped you, but no problem

I doubt there is anything anyone can do besides filing a bug report at nvidia. Both 'the forcing' and choosing vsync in Nexuiz should do the same, enabling vsync. which DOES limit your FPS to your monitor refresh rate unless you also have trible buffering enabled! WHich seems to be the case for you.
When enabling both options creates problems it should be a bug in the drivers and other games should also have that problem..

Oh I see, I thought I was just not supposed to have Vsync on in two places at once.

I suggest using the value "let application choose" (or whatever it's like in other languages) for Nexuiz. A system with an E6600 and a 8800GT should be able to run Nexuiz at >400fps with 1280 resolution on default settings.

At least this works on my rig (E6750/GF9600GT/WXP) at any time.

Urmz0r wrote:I suggest using the value "let application choose" (or whatever it's like in other languages) for Nexuiz. A system with an E6600 and a 8800GT should be able to run Nexuiz at >400fps with 1280 resolution on default settings.

At least this works on my rig (E6750/GF9600GT/WXP) at any time.

I was thinking about buying a 9600gt. what kind of fps you get with all settings enabled except for relief mapping and 4x anisotropic with 1024x768 resolution? in levels such as downer or basement.

If I use the settings you suggested and create a local game without bots, I get around 150fps averagely (min 127 / max 205). However, I notice some comparatively jerky movement, certainly caused by the limiting CPU. So those settings are generally not recommendable for playing.

Heh, I play with lowest quality now. Game still looks very good and I have FPS of 250

TFT LCD monitors lack the capability to refresh more rapidly than the refresh rate, therefore a framerate greater than the refresh rate is meaningless.

TVR wrote: ... bigwords .... a framerate greater than the refresh rate is meaningless.

Yes, but at 250 fps, the game polls your hardware at 250 Hz. (At least I think so?)

Dave wrote:Yes, but at 250 fps, the game polls your hardware at 250 Hz. (At least I think so?)

Framerate capped at the refresh rate will yield the greatest common factor, therefore a frame would match each refresh cycle.

The thing is,
2.4.2 was runing smothly for me, some bugs but no other problems.
2.5 and 2.5.1 is no good and it runs as an old movie now.
Devolepers miss something.
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cica wrote:On "Low" detail settings my FPS range is 49-73
On "Ultimate" detail settings my FPS range is 44-77

There doesn't seem to be much difference to me whatsoever!

Doesn't this mean my FPS is bottlenecked exclusively by my Processor/RAM/FSB?

Specs:
E6600 Core2 Duo (2x2.4Ghz, 2x2mb L2 Cache, 1066mhz)
2x1GB DDR2 667mhz
8800GT

Nothing overclocked.

I can appreciate the game would probably only use one core, but this is still a little strange, right?

Thanks in advance!

Hey, I think this would probably help... It helped me alot to boost my fps! So go in ur nexuiz folder and go to data, and look for the config.cfg if its not there then look in other folders in ur nexuiz folder. Once u found the config.cfg make a text file, so right click in the folder where config.cfg is, and look for text file or text document or something like that. Then name it autoexec.cfg After you have done that copy and paste this in the autoexec.cfg text file.

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set cl_bobcycle 0
set cl_bobmodel 0
set cl_itembobheight 0
set cl_rollangle 0
set v_kicktime 0

set cl_decals 0
set cl_stainmaps 0

set cl_nogibs 0 // 1
set cl_noplayershadow 1

set cl_particles_blood 0
set cl_particles_bubbles 0
set cl_particles_bulletimpacts 0
set cl_particles_explosions_bubbles 0
set cl_particles_explosions_shell 0
set cl_particles_explosions_smokes 0
set cl_particles_explosions_sparks 0
set cl_particles_quality 0.5
set cl_particles_rain 0
set cl_particles_size 0.5
set cl_particles_smoke 0
set cl_particles_snow 0
set cl_particles_sparks 0

set gl_picmip 1337
set gl_texture_anisotropy 1
set r_detailtextures 0
set r_picmipworld 1

set gl_flashblend 0
set gl_polyblend 0

set r_shadow_bumpscale_basetexture 0
set r_shadow_bumpscale_bumpmap 0

set r_sky 0

set r_water 0
set r_waterscroll 0
set r_waterwarp 0

set r_bloom 0
set r_coronas 0
set r_depthfirst 0
set r_drawfog 0
set r_dynamic 0
set r_glsl_deluxemapping 0
set r_glsl_offsetmapping 0
set r_glsl_offsetmapping_reliefmapping 0
set r_glsl_water 0
set r_hdr 0
set r_lerplightstyles 0
set r_shadow_gloss 0
set r_shadow_glsl_offsetmapping 0
set r_shadow_realtime_dlight 0
set r_shadow_realtime_dlight_shadows 0
set r_shadow_realtime_world 0
set r_shadow_realtime_world_dlightshadows 0
set r_shadow_realtime_world_shadows 0
set r_shadow_usenormalmap 0
set r_showsurfaces 3

set vid_samples 1

set ambient_level 0
set bgmvolume 0
set snd_staticvolume 0

This worked on my arch linux comp. Dunno if this will work for urs or whatever ur using. But just try. I think in windows, the text file is called text document. Its notepad most likely so just copy and paste this in ur text document/notepad called autoexec.cfg and try ur game again and tell me ur results.

Note: maybe its ur internet?

EDIT: Make sure u re-name ur text file to autoexec.cfg !! if its not with .cfg i don't think it will work.

Get Damn Small Nexuiz and you'll play with 2000 fps.

i get 70-300 with Medium
Ultimate 50-70

On my laptop, I get around 12-30 fps.

I'm used to the low speed, so I play well anyway

i think i get 80ish fps..idk..thats what it was the other day in campaign..

I have ine advice for you:
First, don't use AntiAliasing if you really haven't to. AA was made for old game consoles like the N64 or the Dreamcast that had to play on low-res CRT TVs and monitors, and give "good" graphics. Nowdays it's quite useless, because the tradeoff of performance of enabling AA vs. rising the display resolution is almost the same, and rising the resolution gives a more natural looking than AA gives. Anyway, if your PC is so brutally powerful that you play with the highest details, at your highest monitor resolution, and you still have 200fps, you can enable AA if you want insane-high graphics.

On High, no AA, 1024x768 : 70 - 150
On Ultimate, 4x AA, 1280x1024: 20 - 60

heh, i run with everything turned off/all the way down..

I play with a Nvidia card GF 7600 GT, at first I got bad fps for my machine but with a little tuning I found I got 200+ average frame rate most important setting I found was setting the maximum pre-rendered frame to 0. most of the time this is set to 3-5 by default, having a number of frames pre-rendered by the GPU just makes game play look good but adds a delay that at high frame is not notice but at level lower that 60fps make the game seam to LAG badly, i think that alot of people have been blaming servers for this LAG silly people.