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Hello. I'll just get to the point.




When i run Defcon i have ~8 FPS

My gfx drivers was 169.x but i read somewhere here that 91.47 version will solve my problem so i reformatted my Windows and install 91.47 on it. But it doesn't help me at all. I still have ~8FPS. Defcon.exe take ~99% CPU usage (it rocks :/ )

I know that not only I have this problem. Only on first 3 page of Windows troubleshoting board are about 6 topics similiar to mine and unsolved.

For example on my friend machine (~1700 Mhz and GF 5500) game runs really smooth.

Can someone really help me(US) with this? Thx.

I suppose you have tried the obvious stuff like setting lower world detail, disabling water and smooth lines? I don't remember them being a problem back when I had a 6800, but one never knows. If so, your best course of action probably is to try lots of different driver versions. AFAIK, it's the only thing that was reported to help, and different cards may like different driver versions.

it's quite hard work to check every driver becouse there is many of them :O and after each other huge process to totally clean it from system... imo impossible :/


I've noticed that "power" on my computer is going to Client Mail Loop instead of Render. I ask few of my friends and on their computers "power" is use in RENDER even when 6 players play anf world is full of units etc.



I tried newest drivers and nothing happened. Help plz.

I've just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and everything looks ok on 1.42 ver. Almost all of my CPU power goes to render, but why in Windows Xp OS the game runs like a piece of shit :/ ?

Hi, i have a very similar pc, and i am also fighting with preformance. But i am using linux and its about 20FPS. So i dont have your problem.

But i wanna say, i never noticed how powerful the profiler is. Thanks for pointing me to this.
Its almost a shame Defcon is preforming so bad, when you can tell exactly where the CPU time goes.

The way that profile looks is indeed odd. No matter what I do, I can't get the object update take more than 1/2 of the total world update time. Sounds like a solid performance BUG you have there.

bert_the_turtle wrote:The way that profile looks is indeed odd. No matter what I do, I can't get the object update take more than 1/2 of the total world update time. Sounds like a solid performance BUG you have there.

For sure there is a solid performance bug but im not the one who should have some knowledge about this.
The image you can see few post before is came from original authenticated 1.43 version of Defcon installed on clear windows xp + newest drivers.

And as i say, yesterday I installed Ubuntu 8.10 and i downloaded from official site Defcon 1.42 for Linux and there is no problem. Client Main Loop power usage is very low even with 6 players and FPS never drop under 30~40 FPS.

So that makes me think what is the cause? Same machine,other OS and problem solved?

But strange thing is when i run WINE (windows application emulator) under Ubuntu and runs Defcon 1.43.exe (the same wich from is screen above) the problem with 8FPS came back. So i think that there is no driver problem but some serious bug in programming becouse under Ubuntu there is no nVidia ForceWare drivers which i thought before was the problem. What do you think about this?

Sorr. for my poor english

And btw.
1.42 under linux runs smooth so i want it to play online but can i play online with people which have 1.43?

Yes for your last question. No Problem with that.

thx you for this answer. Now all i can do is waiting for some smart guy from introversion who can help me...

Hm. Try giving the application in this zip a run: http://www.neothermic.com/darwinia/Open ... ngDump.zip -- it'll do a few OpenGL commands and then dump out a text file in the same directory it runs in. Paste the result here.

NeoThermic

after i downloaded "glut32.dll" it gives me this file:

Feel free to tell me to SHUT UP! but I've had similar problems for ages (unplayable framerates), and with just two changes to my PC, Defcon works perfectly.
1: I upgraded my CPU from 800 Mhz ( ) to 1.1 Ghz, which I'm sure must've had a small effect on performance.
2:I Installed Chipset Drivers for my Mainboard, which is something I've never done before.
So, at the risk of offering completely useless advice (something I excell in ), have you installed the chipset drivers for your mainboard?

Ps. My Nvdia drivers are from April 2007!

Blackbeard wrote:have you installed the chipset drivers for your mainboard?

Yes At Firstly becouse of my SATA HD ;]

muaddib.5g wrote:Yes At Firstly becouse of my SATA HD ;]

Ah yes I've heard of those. Mine however, is called IDE. It has a massive 10 Ghz capacity (maybe you should upgrade ).

upgrade what?