Subject: Re: Tried out M3 this evening
From: Brant Clabaugh (powdertoast@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 17:11:23 EEST
Tried LOD 50 this morning and my frame rates dropped to 11 on the average. Heh! Large gaps were still appearing in the terrain, even at LOD 50. I've dropped LOD down to 25, which doesn't seem to have much impact on my system. I'm the person named Catalyst who was on last night (my time) with the elephant, by the way. :) -Brant --- Brant Clabaugh <powdertoast@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I have a Celeron 400 overclocked to 450 with 128 megs of RAM and a > Voodoo 3 3000 video card. I was running the Win32 version of Majik3D > at > 1024x768 with everything turned on and LOD set to 7 (default). My > frame > rate without other people on the screen was around 34 per second. > With > other folks onscreen it dropped to twenty-something depending on what > they were doing. > > I set the LOD to 20 and seemed to get a little speed increase, > strangely enough, although some other server parameters might have > been > changing at the time. LOD 20 is definitely prettier than LOD 7. I'll > try LOD 50 in a moment. > > In both LOD 7 and LOD 20 there were some pretty big gaps between > various sections of the landscape. > > If the server is not answering and I exit the client, I get that IPF > error I mentioned before. No problem if the client is connected to > the > server. > > Lookin' good, guys! > > -Brant > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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