Not-so-good FPS

ok so i have a pretty good gaming pc:

Intel Quad 9400 2.67GHz

2GB RAM

nVidia GTX 280

1TB 32MB/s SATA2 HDD

other games i play have shown a massive improvement in FPS from my last system, so i know this system is as good as it seems.

so why does my mxo appear to be running at like 30FPS?  i don't know how to get a real FPS value out of the game (is there a way?) so i can't say for sure, but i've written video codecs from scratch so my eyes are pretty attuned to fps, and it's 30 at best.  other more modern and more graphics intensive games run faster than mxo, so i'm a bit confused and i hope there is a solution.

so whats the deal? is this the way it is for everyone?

and i have the latest drivers; they just came out a few days ago.

regards,

dedic

Hey dedic,

I know you mentioned this post in my thread, and as I was messing around with some settings, i noticed that turning AA on improved my frame rate almost drastically (granted I cant turn the graphics up much higher before I start losing frames) but it is a start! I dunno if its my card RAdeon 2600 HD Pro, but i have never known a game to improve its frame rate with AA set to on.

To display stats on your network performance and Frames Per Second, type

/netstats

to turn them off again, type

/netstats off

ok i have experimented fa lot and i have come up with some conclusions.  the most important being the frame rates have almost nothing to do with my video card.  the matrix application is just really poorly written.  to improve my fps i did the following.

in nVidia ctrl panel, set everyting to what it should be to favor performance over quality -- except i can't handle no vsynch so i leave that and triple-buffering on.  the matrix app seems to like "pre-rendered frames" to be at 2 for some reason -- at least for me.

after you run the matrix app and get to the loading area, ctrl-tab out and open up your task manager.  go to oroceses and find the matrix.exe app.  right-click it and select "Set Priority" then "Realtime" -- though if you don't have a multi-core or multi-processor system, this could be dangerous.  then right-click the matrix.exe app again and select "Set Affinity".  i change it so it doesn't use "CPU 0" but uses CPUs 1-3.  it doesn't appear to be a multi-threaded app but giving it 3 processors and leaving the first one free for the system seems to help for me.  it may just make me feel more in control, though, hehe.

and with that, when i first jack in, i get a gorgeous 60fps -- it looks surreal.  then, of course, over time the engine gets bogged-down somehow and i end up going back to the way it used to be.

hope that helps someone...

dedic

PS thanks for the /netstats info, MUCH appreciated!

MXO uses alot of your machines memory. I have 8 GB RAM, and it never lags at all, even dual clienting and every setting maxed. I bet if you upgrade your memory some more, your FPS would increase, 2 GB is just not enough for this game.