ET:QW Performance tips
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3 Nov 2007, 20:00
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IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ETQW, IGNORE THIS JOURNAL PLEASE. I ADDED ET:QW IN THE TITLE FOR A REASON.
I'd like to share some performance tips that worked quite well for me. Some are ATI only, others might work regardless which graphics card you are using. Maybe some of these settings help you, too.
1) Some people complained about about a loss of FPS since patch 1.2
In the community forum a developer suggested using r_useFBODestinationBuffer "0"
This gave me a boost of ~15FPS
2) Some ATI users had problems with etqw.exe crashing.
There are many solutions:
- Use the 7.10 drivers
- Install the ATI 7.9 Hotfix
- Rename etqw.exe (?)
- Turn off Catalyst A.I. and activate Triple Buffering
3) I didn't have a problem with my etqw.exe, but with r_usethreadedrenderer. This CVAR was added in patch 1.2. It enables multithreading for CPUs with more than one core and it's supposed to increase your FPS. ( 0 is default for singlecore, 2 enables multihread, 1 is for debugging purposes only )
Chaoz wrote a journal about it. However, enabling it decreased my FPS instead of increasing them.
I enabled Multithread support in my graphics driver, but it still didn't work. I tried to find out why, but didn't get an answer.
In despair I turned off Catalyst A.I. and activatedTriple buffering* and this gave me another boost of~30FPS!
*I tried it without Triple Buffering and my etqw.exe crashed when starting the timenetdemo.
That's it,
please leave a comment, if it worked for you, too.
I'd like to share some performance tips that worked quite well for me. Some are ATI only, others might work regardless which graphics card you are using. Maybe some of these settings help you, too.
1) Some people complained about about a loss of FPS since patch 1.2
In the community forum a developer suggested using r_useFBODestinationBuffer "0"
This gave me a boost of ~15FPS
2) Some ATI users had problems with etqw.exe crashing.
There are many solutions:
- Use the 7.10 drivers
- Install the ATI 7.9 Hotfix
- Rename etqw.exe (?)
- Turn off Catalyst A.I. and activate Triple Buffering
3) I didn't have a problem with my etqw.exe, but with r_usethreadedrenderer. This CVAR was added in patch 1.2. It enables multithreading for CPUs with more than one core and it's supposed to increase your FPS. ( 0 is default for singlecore, 2 enables multihread, 1 is for debugging purposes only )
Chaoz wrote a journal about it. However, enabling it decreased my FPS instead of increasing them.
I enabled Multithread support in my graphics driver, but it still didn't work. I tried to find out why, but didn't get an answer.
In despair I turned off Catalyst A.I. and activatedTriple buffering* and this gave me another boost of~30FPS!
*I tried it without Triple Buffering and my etqw.exe crashed when starting the timenetdemo.
That's it,
please leave a comment, if it worked for you, too.
But nothing more boost.
Or just the 3 steps in the same time help?
r_useFBODestinationBuffer "0" gives me 114.5 fps instead of 111.5
Catalyst A.I. off: 96.0
Catalyst A.I. high: 114.5
I only use ATI Tool. Can u enable Multithreaded support in ATI Tray Tools?
Tweaks --> Advanced Tweaks --> Multi Thread support
The option is marked as 'experimental' so i suspect threadened rendering is just not officially supported by ATI so far :/