[Superdreadnought]

I've recently downloaded and installed fs2_open using current cvs downlaod (my compile is about 2 days old) and I'm experiencing very bad framerates (lower than 1fps sometime its even worse with about 0.2fps) from time to time. The strange thing about it is that it doesnt matter which grahic settings im using (tried everything between low and very high) and it happens only in some situations and starts from absolutely fluent gameplay (more than 40 felt fps - is it possible to display'em?) and goes down to a very slow "slide show" rapidly (from 1 moment to the other) and goes back the same way.

this happens very often when looking at large ships and firing a lot of rockets on'em, firing rockets in nebula, ...


now some details on my machine/compile:
CFLAGS: CC="gcc" CXX="g++" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

my hardware: intel pentium 4 (ht - 3ghz, 1mb l2-cache, 800mhz fsb), ati radeon 9600xt 128mb, 1gig dual-channel 400mhz ddr-ram


hope some1 can help me ...

[PotzUK]

iirc isn't there a bug at the moment regarding frame rates and missiles?

Go back to the latest RC build, the average joe shouldn't really be using a CVS build anyway

[Colonol Dekker]

*use OpenGL* 

[Superdreadnought]

i'm usign opengl btw (isnt it used by default btw?) ...

where can i get the rc src?

[Herra Tohtori]

*use OpenGL* 

I'd say it's rather difficult to use D3D anyway on a Linux system... At least I understood that Superdreadnought is running FS_Open on Linux... If you're not, then the rest of this message is null.

May we assume that you have correctly configured your ATi drivers? I suppose that would be the most probable culprit to your problems.

What does the GLXGears say?


Frame rate per second can be activated by command line option -fps.

[Superdreadnought]

my startup params (if it helps): -spec -glow -jpgtga -mipmap -missile_lighting -dualscanlines -targetinfo -orbradar -rearm_timer -ballistic_gauge -3dwarp -warp_flash -snd_preload -env -alpha_env -d3d_bad_tsys -mod mediavps


so, where can i get the release candidate source?

[Herra Tohtori]

From this thread: 3.6.9 RC7

Source tarball can be dloaded from the first message.

[Superdreadnought]

thx

[taylor]

so, where can i get the release candidate source?

You are probably better off getting it from CVS rather than the currently available source tarball.  The stable branch has the tag, "fs2_open_3_6_9", so just grab that.  If you want to keep up with both branches then create a new one for the stable branch with "cvs co -r fs2_open_3_6_9 -d fs2_open_3_6_9 fs2_open" and that will grab the stable source tree and put it in a new directory named "fs2_open_3_6_9".

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