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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Lag with items and lights

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Mammoth Moth
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PC Specs:
Windows 2000 professional Service Pack 4
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ ~ 1.8GHz
Direct X 9.0c
Graphic card : NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU
736MB RAM

My question is as follows;
Why is it that when I add items such as crates and barrels, or any lights, the game goes from 37 frames per second to about 4. It gets extremely laggy. Any help would be aprichiated. Also, I am running version 1.8 because 1.9 says mising dll.

Thank you in advanced.
Bryce
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Cyborg ART
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Could be something with your integrated graphic card. Dont know.

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CoffeeGrunt
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What version of FPSC are you using?



Quote: "AMD Athlon XP 2500+ ~ 1.8GHz
Direct X 9.0c
Graphic card : NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU
736MB RAM"


Also, you're RAM's under the recommended minimum, Integrated GPU's hate FPSC, trust me, they suck.....

And WTH, how'd you get FPSC to work on 2000?! It's an XP and Vista only program, I'm guessingg that's your problem......
Windows 2000 professional Service Pack 4

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DarkFact
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Are the lights static or dynamic?

If static, then it is most probably your GPU since the completed game has no real lights in it, just lightmaps...which are GPU memory intensive textures.

The crate and barrel textures may also be causing a drop in FPS due to texture memory. To troubleshoot this, create the game with the entities and no lights. Run it. If the FPS drops, then move all of the entity textures from the file structure and run it again. If the FPS goes back up, you haven't enough GPU power.

~Dave
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Mammoth Moth
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Running version 1.8 because 1.9 says mission some DLL.
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Mammoth Moth
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Also, I dont know how I can get FPSC to work.. Magic?
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Cyborg ART
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Quote: "What version of FPSC are you using?"


Quote: "Also, I am running version 1.8 because 1.9 says mising dll."



Quote: "And WTH, how'd you get FPSC to work on 2000?! It's an XP and Vista only program, I'm guessingg that's your problem......"


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2000/XP/Vista

That is what it sais on the back of my hardcopy.

And great to see you back on the TGC forum DarkFact

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5867Dude
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Quote: "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU"

Not to be mean but according to my cousin that card is famous for being so bad
Try this if you have a PCI-E slot
X1650PR
£25!!!!


Vist freefungames.co.cc for free online games you can play at school!
Also join our forums!
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DarkFact
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Hi BVG! Nice to be back as well.

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Ehetyz
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Quote: "Quote: "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU"
Not to be mean but according to my cousin that card is famous for being so bad"


True, I remember GE4MX being ridiculed for being based on old GE2MX chips instead of, say, GE3 or GE4. It's useless.



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Indicium
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I thought Windows 2000 was laggy with any program... never mind fpsc
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