FPS - SPEARHEAD - What setting changes give the best results

Phalk

Hello all you multi-maniacs, I need your help.

I am a little disapointed with the FPS in spearhead (p4-1.8,GF3ti500,700mb+) and would like your input as to which settings to change that will offer the best frame rate without losing quality. Please exclude resolution changes as these are evident.

Thanks!,
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pest · 11-20-2002, 10:00 AM

The settings that I know of that cause the biggest framerate hits are bi/tri linear filtering, vloumetric smoke, texture details and maybe texture compression. Make sure you have anti-aliasing off also. Mostother settings dont seem to have much effect. There may be more, but those are the ones I am familiar with.

spear-in-my-head · 11-20-2002, 03:32 PM

video resolution is the ultimate giver of FPS. and also the most noticeable

11-20-2002, 03:45 PM

[quote="spear-in-my-head":3fe2b]video resolution is the ultimate giver of FPS. and also the most noticeable

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I get the same frames at 1028 and 1200.

You're vid card may not be able to handle high settings as well as you think it should. I'd knock the reso down to 1028-780 and get medium setting on texture and terrain detail. And turn weather effects off.

spear-in-my-head · 11-20-2002, 04:02 PM

well yeah assuming you have a decent cpu though, lowering your resolution will give you more fps. remember peopel a high tech video card doesn't mean much with a weak cpu behind it.

Argon · 11-20-2002, 04:47 PM

One thing I have noticed and I wish people would spread this around that in order to get good performance from Spearhead your gonna have to remove a lot of your MOH mods. There seems to be a conflict with between the two.

Right now its seems that skins, scopes and crosshairs have little effect, but multimaps, blood and sound mods seem to really affect the games performance and gives you crappy FPS, no matter what the resolution or game detail is set at.

My recommendation remove your blood and sound mod and all of your multimaps. I have put a few of my multimaps back only when I want to play them.

Things have been fine since.

Killa123 · 11-20-2002, 08:44 PM

Well sence this is kind of a FPS topic i might need some help.
Specs:
AMD Athlon,1202 mhz,1.2 ghz
NVidia Geforce 4 ti4400 128 mb
256 RAM

Well my question is what needs upgraded? i may get a new processor or would more RAM do the job?

As for my FPS i get around 30-50 is that normal or bad?

spear-in-my-head · 11-20-2002, 09:32 PM

your vid card is good.

first id definately go for 512 mb ram. this will help loading times, the caching at the start of levels ya know. and it will make your framerate more constant.

2nd id go for a p4 2.5 processor and possibly overclock it. your vid card is fine though. cpu is a HUGE deal. then format, install winxp and you will be smooth.

pest · 11-21-2002, 08:17 AM

He's right on the ram but wrong on the processor. Stick with an amd so you wont have to replace you mobo. You can get a xp2100 for $87 delivered on pricewatch.

Bazooka_Joe · 11-21-2002, 01:12 PM

If you are running Windows XP or 2000, uninstall the SP1 (XP) or SP3 (2000). This ISN'T A JOKE! Uninstall it, reboot, download the hotfixes you need, then run Auto-Config in the Spearhead directory. Try to run the game, and see if there's an improvement.

Both Service Pack 1 for XP & Service Pack 3 for Win2000 contain a .DLL file that corrupts performance on most 3D cards that use a NVidia chipset, and sometimes ATI as well.