20248x2048 skins causes framrate decrease, why?

[pappavis]

Recently i reinstalled windows and ofcourse lo-mac 1.1 on my computer. A fter starting lo-mac and flying some missions i noticed something amazing.. my framerates were very much higher than before the fresh install. Strange, to say the least.

 

I routinley reinstall windows once a year though, my machine was working fine.. i use it only for programming VisualStudio2003.NET, e-mails and lo-mac.

 

After this fresh install of both windows and lo-mac i started lo-acm and gotten pretty very good framerates. Then i installed all hires 2048x2048 skins (with loman) in lo-mac. Guess what? Framrates dropped from say, 40fps to 5fps or less!

I then procedded to remove all these hires skins which resulted in high framerates again. Could this drop in framerates be due to insufficient videomemory in my videocard??

 

My videocard is a Club3D Geforce 6600 GT 128MB AGP, gfx setings externally at AA 2x, AF 2x and the card is not overclocked. Lo-mac setting running at 1024x960, all details max except water at medium and Heatblur=false. Mirrors = Medium, Cokpit shadows=on.

 

Does any1 have a smiliar experience of fropping framerates with many hires skins installed?

[TBT_Piper]

Those textures are twice as big as the 1024's and that means the area is 4 times as great. My frame rates dropped alot with the skin but I think it could be that they are no mip-maps or my computer just sucks ( which it does )

[AStotzer]

20,248 x 2048 skins are HUGE!! :rolleyes:

 

You have a typo in your title. :icon_pidu

[S77th-GOYA]

Does any1 have a smiliar experience of fropping framerates with many hires skins installed?

 

Yes. And not only that, I get a huge frame hit if someone else has hi-res skins installed. At least sometimes I do. I have a post in the bug forum, but no one has made any helpful replies. I have no idea why the multiplayer code would send info that kills my frames, but it does.

 

Your problem may partially be caused by the fact that so many skins have to be put into the temptextures folder. They don't get put into the CDDS file and use more resources. There's a lot of good mods that I don't use anymore because of that very reason.

[Guest ThomasDWeiss]

You should use one 2048x2048 at a time - which is a pity.

[Witchking]

what I do is I downsample tex to 1024 . much better :)

 

becos 2048 skins are nearly 20 MB in size...whereas 1024 skins are only around 6 MB.

[pappavis]

You should use one 2048x2048 at a time - which is a pity.

 

Thomas, you shoulndt tempt me with those nice 2048-skins on http://www.lomacfiles.com :P. I have to install them, the temptations to have only 2-48-skins are too severe for me ;).

Anyways i have removed just abaout all 2048-*2048 skins. Now my lomac runs again very smooth with very high framerates >=45fps over land / city's.

 

Pity that the hires skins cant realy be used :(.

[Guest ThomasDWeiss]

Those skins are beautiful ! ;)

[VVanks]

Er, 2048x2048 textures? My screen resolution on my dual 19 inch is 2x1280x1024 or 2560x1024, now, imagine I buy 2 more screens and stick them on top, making a 4 screen desktop. Using the same resolution, that's around 2560x2048, shave off 500 pixels and voila, 2048x2048. Now, imagine folding that huge 2x2 screen around a multi-polygon object in real time. You get my gist.

 

2048x2048 textures are not only pointless IMO, they're performance killing. I've tried them and sure they seem to be clearer, more detailed, but you have to get real close to see, and in the heat of battle, who cares about textures?

[Witchking]

amen VVanks! I think 1024 tex are enough.