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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: Henkka on February 24, 2009, 02:20:26 PM

Title: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 24, 2009, 02:20:26 PM: I have like 300-1000fps in dp. But when i play, it suddenly drops to 30-100 and the screen starts to lag/tremble. It's normal like 3min, then drops for 3min comes back normal for like 3min and so on and so on. Help appreciated.

Some info:
Windows XP
NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT
Intel(R)Core(TM)2CPU 6300 @ 1,86GHz
1GB RAM
Build 25
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: jitspoe on February 24, 2009, 04:12:57 PM: Should be plenty to play this game. Sounds like you may have a program running in the background that's eating up your CPU (virus scanner, web browser, etc).
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: zimtstern on February 24, 2009, 04:17:46 PM: Henkka,
close :
- Live Messenger
- Youtube
- WoW

or just get new drivers for your graphic card i remember i told it to sampp and it works.
next time you can ask me... most guys on forum here just post links to other threads or tell you to use the search function
or google helps.

Zim
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 24, 2009, 04:32:07 PM: The thing is, it happens even if i have just paintball opened and nothing else. And yes zimt, i have the newest drivers and i have tried some older drivers too. And no, i never have Youtube opened and i dont play WoW. No virus scanners and such opened eiher. This didn't happen when i had my crappy ATI card.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: jitspoe on February 24, 2009, 04:41:35 PM: Run the game in a window and keep task manager up with the list of processes. See if something comes along and starts using a lot of CPU.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 24, 2009, 05:03:02 PM: Everything is 0 except Paintball (70-90) and some System Idle Process (5-20).
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: eMo on February 24, 2009, 05:54:33 PM: make sure your comps not over heating.

believe it our not, DP2 actually fried my 512mb NViDIA Quatro
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: lilb990 on February 25, 2009, 09:05:03 PM: Yea as eMo said if it overheats restart the computer or simply leave it alone. Because i wouldn't want to go out and buy a new video card. And by the looks of that paintball is acting strange for you if its using 70-90 its using 40-45 when i play against acebots.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: MyeRs on February 26, 2009, 07:41:02 AM: Any codes to help with fps? Or is there only codes for helping lag?
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: lilb990 on February 26, 2009, 11:25:27 AM: Yea here is the website http://digitalpaint.therisenrealm.com/reference/reducinglag
Hope that helps you henkaa
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 26, 2009, 01:16:19 PM: Well, it was the overheating. Downloaded a program called SpeedFan and it said that the temperature was 120. Checked my graphic card and my finger almost burned. It's darn hot.

And yes, i've already written all the lag reducing commands.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: lilb990 on February 26, 2009, 01:19:31 PM: Did it help any with the commands? Or did you just restart your comp?
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 26, 2009, 01:21:58 PM: No, neither of those helped. There might be dust stuck somewhere near the graphic card so the cooler doesn't work or something.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: lilb990 on February 26, 2009, 01:23:46 PM: Can you try and take out the graphics card and if there is a way to clean it then do it?

Edit: Cause it would suck to go out and buy a new vid card.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 26, 2009, 01:27:54 PM: I have no idea how to take it out. All i would do is destroy it :D
I just wait until tomorrow so my brother comes to do it.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: lilb990 on February 26, 2009, 01:35:07 PM: Wait till KnacK or someone who understands about Video Cards and they will tell you how and it would suck if trying to take it out you would destroy it lol XD
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: jitspoe on February 26, 2009, 04:11:14 PM: Try setting cl_sleep to 1 or enabling vsync.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 27, 2009, 10:48:38 AM: Well, the card was broken. At least the fan didn't spin. So i switched back to my ATI card.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: lilb990 on February 27, 2009, 12:51:57 PM: Quote from: Henkka on February 27, 2009, 10:48:38 AM
Well, the card was broken. At least the fan didn't spin. So i switched back to my ATI card.

Lol were you the one who broke it? :P
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 27, 2009, 02:12:49 PM: No, lol. I didn't touch it. Probably because the overheating. It was 125 celsius.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: jitspoe on February 27, 2009, 04:54:24 PM: I think it's more likely that the video card started overheating because the fan stopped spinning, rather than the other way around. You could always go to some place like newegg.com and order replacement video card fans.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 27, 2009, 05:21:14 PM: Exactly, overheated because of the broken fan. I think newegg doesn't ship to Finland? Gotta search for some other place. No clue where they are sold.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: mewa on February 28, 2009, 12:31:00 AM: jesus christ, 125c. roastin marshmallows.

probably beyond the point of return, i wouldnt mess with a new fan (especially since you couldnt even figure how to pull the card). your ati is probably good enough for this game. just need to get it out of your head that you need 1000 fps/
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 28, 2009, 03:27:27 AM: Well, yeah. Even the ATI card gives me 100-200 fps in dp so i don't necessarily need that. But it can't take any harder games.
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: blaa on February 28, 2009, 05:08:36 AM: Quote from: Henkka on February 27, 2009, 02:12:49 PM
No, lol. I didn't touch it. Probably because the overheating. It was 125 celsius.

Dont take your computer to sauna
Title: Re: FPS Problems
Post by: Henkka on February 28, 2009, 12:04:25 PM: Hahah, good one blaa.