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Started by zygote_mm Apr 15, 2001 at 7:59 PM 7 replies 350+ views

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Apr 15, 2001 at 7:59 PM

Hi Chris, This .bsp importing is very sweet : ) the maps look excellent and getting everything to work is a breeze. Only problem im having is this super low fps. im getting an awesome 120 fph! (thats right, frames per hour) hehe 2 fpm just isnt good enough. for refreshers im using a voodoo 5 (with good drivers) on an amd athlon 1.1ghz with PR4 b5. i know my cpu can handle this stuff (i run quake3 in 1600x1200 at @25-30 fps). just viewing the maps should be a breeze : ) if i need to have a geforce 3 to get good refresh rates, something is seriously wrong. i thought this stuff was supposed to be fixed (slowness) on this release. what do you think chris? Mike

zygote_mm

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zygote_mm

Apr 15, 2001 at 8:02 PM

im so sorry, this site always says "invalid username or password", guess when i get that message, i should go check to see if it really updated or not. (anyone else having this problem?)

my apologies
Mike

ChrisE

Apr 15, 2001 at 8:12 PM

If the camera is inside part of the level it should be very fast because it uses the PVS data to cull out most of the level quickly.

However if the camera is outside, it draws everything since the visibility can''t be determined. This will cause problems if you''re placing a big BSP object on a terrain and view it from a distance. I have an idea of how to get around this but have not implemented it yet.

If it''s slow and you''re just viewing BSP models from inside then there is a legitimate problem.

Chris

zygote_mm

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zygote_mm

Apr 15, 2001 at 8:33 PM

i am inside the bsp, and there is not much polys or vertices (like 5k polys and 10k or so vertices

ChrisE

Apr 15, 2001 at 8:46 PM

What level are you trying? I can give it a try on a voodoo3.

zygote_mm

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zygote_mm

Apr 15, 2001 at 8:51 PM

http://zaxis.stomped.com/main.php3?content=authors/q3a/os-seven/map-defcon1-wfa/map-defcon1-wfa.rev&title=Z-Axis+Quake3Arena+Review

ChrisE

Apr 15, 2001 at 10:02 PM

That level chugs along even on a Radeon. Try some more and compare speeds because that one doesn''t seem to be designed well for speed.

The ones that come with Q3 are much faster than this level.

ChrisE

Apr 16, 2001 at 3:23 PM

I think I found some problems with the way BSP''s are handled. I''ll need to do some rearranging to make them run fast on software transformation.

zygote_mm

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zygote_mm

Apr 16, 2001 at 8:46 PM

sounds great : )

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