Low FPS

If you're worried about memory usage, send a reminder to empty about trimming his max_particles field. Most of the particles have that left at the default of 1000 which allocates much more memory than is needed.

 

I don't use NVIDIA Control Panel to force any AA. I downloaded pickled_heretics particle pack and the FPS never drops below 40.

 

Yes, sure. 1000 * 4 * 4 bytes vs whole megabytes for 1 particle done with textures.

 

I've never noticed a difference so I don't bother trimming them, especially since it causes problems if I change the numbers later and I have to change the number and argh.

 

I have in ever in Empire Maps 20-35 FPS sometimes 10-15 FPS
(in L4D 2 78-110 FPS)
(in Insurgency 90-120 FPS)
(in Battlefield 2 160-190 FPS)

here my system:
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SB 64-BIT (all up to date design on performance (( Win95 style)) )
ATX Midi NZXT HU-001WH Special Edition - Pearl white
Netzteil ATX be quiet! Straight Power E7 450W
GIGABYTE GA-MA785GT-UD3H 785G AM3 ATX
AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.20GHz (C3) AM3 6MB 125W Black...
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus S775,1156,1366,939,AM2,AM3
1024MB Sapphire Radeon HD5770 Vapor-X GDDR5 Lite Retail PCIe (driver 10.4)
2x2048MB Exceleram CB8 DDR3-2000 CL8 Kit "Blue Culvert"
500GB Samsung HD502HJ F3 16MB 7200 U/min SATA
LG GH22NS50 SATA

 

I got 12 fps in 2.24, now I get an average 4.
Not 40, 4.
But then again.
My laptop is a sack of shit.
So that's prolly why.

 

Srsly.

AA off.

So little difference, such a large performance boost.

 

without AA it looks creepy :eek:

 

Yeah, he shouldn't need to turn it off

 

Go into ATI Catalyst controler and change your AA settings to "box"

 

I put AA to 2x instead of 4x and I changed Texture Filtering to Off, although I don't think Texture Filtering hits FPS but the game doesn't look any different.

 

Texture filtering is unrelated to particles.