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Captain Slow    Registered Member #3 Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003Location: Scotland Posts: 4651 | Frame Rate Loss Possible causes for Lag (Frame Rate Loss) in an online map: (Note, the quoted lines are from Slasher - they were reposted to answer his questions) "#1.Will sounds,AI's and choppers lag the map up?" No, but they might cause Frame Rate loss... It depends on how much you have in the map as a total item count, how closely you have them packed together and how many large items (like the hanger or Castle parts). I was in a map on h2o's server that was foggy (maybe level 3?) and had quite a few city blocks, some trees and no sounds and parked vehicles. I had no frame rate loss what so ever - difficult map too LOL Basically, if you have more than say 2 choppers, and they're not very far apart and there's quite a few items total in the map, those on lessor machines/vid cards may experience some frame rate loss. "#2=What is a good frame rate to have when makeing a map.I have a 32 mb video card.So i take it thats the best frame rate i will get.But what is a ok level of frame rate,30,20...17?" The human eye can't distinguish anything over a frame rate of either 16 or 20, I can't remember exactly. Natually the higher the frame rate the better the video quality.. I would say that you should try to achieve the highest rate you can but on someone with a lower version Vid Card. If you have any old cards, you might switch to that one to make the map, get it so that it runs great on that card, then you know you'll have no problems on your newer card. Either this or take it online and test it for a few days, when people enter, ask them to tell you when they encounter problems, what type and where on the map - take notes, this way you can go back later and find and fix them.In generally answering your questions, too many things will cause frame rate loss, but you can have quite a few things as long as they are spread out over a large area. | ||
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