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by Hermskii » Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:46 am
Was it this?
VSYNC:
VSYNC is a control built into the game that tries to equalize the refresh rate of the monitor to the framerate of your video card, as I understand it. Depending on how good your video card is can greatly affect the maximum framerate you might achieve with this setting. Here is an example: If you have a great video card on a great system, when you run a framerate benchmark, your results will usually max out at the speed your monitor’s refresh rate is set at which by default for most systems is 60. There are many video cards that can produce well over that amount of Frames Per Second (FPS). If you were to tell the VSYNC setting to ignore the monitor refresh rate, you would in effect remove the max speed limit from the video card and you would achieve higher frames per second which would usually mean a much smoother picture. Generally any thing above 60 FPS is considered excellent and everything above 60 is supposed to be invisible to the human eye. If you ran the benchmark described above, and were stuck at a flat 60 or 75 or whatever your monitors refresh rate is; then I suggest that you do the following and retest to see what your card can really do. If when you benchmarked earlier and you got a score of less than 60, I’d leave this setting alone for now until you get a better video card or computer. It is my opinion that the game is very playable at anything over 30 FPS.
One more note about this setting, and this has always been odd to me:
The default is set to “False”. We are going to set it to “True”, which when I read it would mean that we are turning it ‘on’, when in fact, we are turning ‘off’. Don’t ask me why, but this seems backwards to me.
How to Disable VSync to see what your video card can really do:
Start the game up and begin a practice match.
Hit the tilde (~) key.
Type the word preferences in the command line and hit enter. (Note: Some systems will crash right here if they have their Windows Screen Resolution and Color Quality set to a different setting than the UT Video Resolution and Color Depth settings. If this happened to you, go back up to Chapter 3 and reset these values and restart the game.)
Wait for up to 15 seconds on some machines for the Preference screen to open.
Click the + next to Rendering.
Click the + next to D3D.
Scroll to near bottom and change UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True.
(I also would also set Coronas to False and Volumetric lighting to False. I do this to get rid of the misty rings of light you see around lights in the game like the moon on a very humid night and I turn off the volumetric lighting too because it create a haze appearance which to me reduces visibility.)
Close Preferences window.
Close System Console window.
Close UT game.
Restart the game and benchmark your frame rate. Done.
So Nameless, IS this what your were talking about? I just saw this post from you and Scotty. If so, set it back to false and tell me if you still have the issue and I'm assuming that you have not done any of this S3TC stuff yet. Do you have a computer with a multi-core processor? Let us know. Thanks!
~Peace~
Hermskii
