low framerates with 1.59 and 1.6 betas
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With the latest Dark Avatar 1.5 (release version) I get the same framerates that I get with Dreadlords. However, if I use a beta version my framerates drop by roughly 75%.
It doesn't matter if I use the 1.59.096 beta or the 1.6 b5 test 2 beta available from this forum. I guess I am one of the people who doesn't get increases with the new graphics engine. I am confused by the drop in framerates with the 1.59.096 beta though. Is there any differences graphics wise with the 1.59 beta that should cause the framerate drop?
Also, the framerate drops only occur when there are ships on my screen. If I scroll around for example in areas where are there are only planets and not ships I do not get the framerate drops.
The drops remain even after I turn off every graphics setting available, including all of the texture settings.
I'm playing on a really low end laptop that I am afraid to mention the settings of because someone will come in here laughing at me. All I will say is that the laptop does well enough that plays a game on a medium map with performance that I consider acceptable (as long as I am not using one of the betas). The laptop has an integrated Intel 82855 graphics card with the latest drivers. I play with 1024x768 resolution.
It doesn't matter if I use the 1.59.096 beta or the 1.6 b5 test 2 beta available from this forum. I guess I am one of the people who doesn't get increases with the new graphics engine. I am confused by the drop in framerates with the 1.59.096 beta though. Is there any differences graphics wise with the 1.59 beta that should cause the framerate drop?
Also, the framerate drops only occur when there are ships on my screen. If I scroll around for example in areas where are there are only planets and not ships I do not get the framerate drops.
The drops remain even after I turn off every graphics setting available, including all of the texture settings.
I'm playing on a really low end laptop that I am afraid to mention the settings of because someone will come in here laughing at me. All I will say is that the laptop does well enough that plays a game on a medium map with performance that I consider acceptable (as long as I am not using one of the betas). The laptop has an integrated Intel 82855 graphics card with the latest drivers. I play with 1024x768 resolution.
, and on a medium map with all abundant, all majors/minors I took a little 'test drive'. Even though I've turned down some of the graphics settings as per advice here, the frame rate seems pretty good, holding around 75 and never really dipping below 68. Now I'm not sure what's 'optimal', but I am assuming this is good, eh?