SE FPS Problems

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:46 am

This has been happening to me for a while now, when ever i use sparkedit i get 4 or 5 FPS, when switching to wire frame its about 10 FPS.

This started happening after my old graphics card died on me, and that was 4 or 5 months ago, and got a new Card.

I figured it would go away with a new download but no luck.

Does anyone no why this happens and how i can fix it?

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:48 am

Lemme guess

SP-MP?

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:08 am

Yes but its the same thing in multiplayer maps as well. I blam by drivers/graphics card

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:12 am

hm. I had this problem during Act 2, when I SP-MP'd the library. It lagged up.

Run full screened, check your processes under CTRL+ALT+DEL, and make sure nothing is using up too much mem or CPU.

If nothing works, right click sparkedit and give it realtime privileges under the processes tab. This basically tells the computer to give it priority over anything else, it should make it run much quicker.

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:13 pm

Your graphics card either sucks, does not have the correct drivers, or is faulty.

Low FPS may be caused by the graphics card not working, and the RAM is doing all the work. Or your graphics card just sucks.

If you can't fix it, just stay in wire frame. Or you can use mesh. You can always try overclocking your system, but I wouldn't do that just for sparkedit.

^^^My limited hardware knowledge.

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:16 pm

My graphic card just sucks

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:18 pm

Ok then, you can make the SE window smaller. Less pixels that have to be updated. Or if you really want to have higher FPS, set your screen resolution to like 640 x 480, then run SE. Should be able to run at full 15 FPS (I think that's the limit to SE.)

botternub · Post by **botternub** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:13 am

wats ur gfx and ram?

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:33 pm

Already fix the problem i run it in shaded wireframe with a smaller screen i get about 15 fps so im good

o and i have like 1.5 gigs of ram im not sure what kind of graphics card i have so w/e im good

botternub · Post by **botternub** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:26 pm

if you have 1.5g your card is probably crap and/or a laptop with integrated gfx

4 gigs of ram will seriously help your fps.... there are many articles to show this. almost a 200% boost in video performance in some apps

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:32 pm

dude, you dont need 4 gigs of ram, i was running at 256 megabytes at one point on my old comp, i could still run Halo PC fine