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Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 03:05:00 -
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Edited by: Brunis on 21/11/2004 23:41:42 Oki i have played around with this for quite some while and ive made a list of stuff that will help increasing your FPS in Eve.
These changes should hold most of you unstill Shiva when the client side fixes (that people talk about) for FPS should get in game.
Okay here we go Tips for good FPS in Eve:
To tjeck at what FPS your Eve is running press "CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-M" - This will pop up a small windows showing FPS, it can also show other usefull stuff.
Turn of "Sun is occluded by ships" in the ESC menu under generic - This should boost your FPS a little while in-space[Newly added since i forgot to add this the first time]
Turn off sound card or just do a CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F12 in-game (EVERYTIME you start Eve!) - Eve seems to have problems with most sound cards so changing this should free some resources. Remember to tjeck the FPS counter with this option though, you might just be one of the lucky with a sound card that Eve works with.
Put in advancedDevice=1 (notice the lowercase a and upper case D) in your prefs.ini now some new settings have appeared in the graphics options in the ESC menu, change the "present interval" to intervel immediate - This one boosted my FPS alot! "Interval immediate" means "no vsync". "Interval one" means wait for vsync. "Interval default" is probably vsync on, depending on your display setup. For the full explanation see D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS in the DXSDK. <-- Thank you to Mark A for the info about what it does.
Change desktopHeight and desktopWidth to match thoes of your desktop in the prefs.ini - If your running your windows in 1600 x 1200 then change the settings to match those.
Change buffersize to half of what RAM you may have in the prefs.ini - So if you have 512MB RAM then you change it to 256MB
Disable any secondary display - This will give your GFX card less work to do but unless CPU is not your bottleneck this should not help much.
If posible upgrade your machine to 1024MB RAM or more - Eve uses alot of memory so upgrading to 1024MB or more should help quite a bit.
If sound card enabled try and turn off any hardware acc on it in "dxdiag" - Look at the other bit where i explained sound cards.
When in-game press CTRL-Tab to get rid of the UI (only if you can live without the scanner) - Eve seems to have some issues with the transparentcy in the UI, using this removes most of the UI and frees a lot of resources.
Close every program posible in Windows since Eve is VERY CPU demanding - Even stopping stuff like Winamp and mIRC will help, so close everything you don't need!
Run the game in full screen - This seems to boost the FPS for some reason but probely just Windows alocating more resources to Eve.
Change the eve.exe process priority in WinXP and Win2k by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, finding eve.exe in the Processes list, right clicking on it, and setting it to High - Thanks to Drakworlf for this one, note that this setting will make Windows give Eve most if not all resources, so don't do this if you have something important running in the background.
If running Eve on a laptop with a ATI card in it then this link might help also http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/, in there you can find a program to modify the normal cat drivers to work on mobility cards - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! The Cat are not made to run on mobility chips so using this might cause harm to your system, im using this my self on my laptop without any problem but it does not mean that you wont have problems!
Questions or surgestions are welcome and i will try and answer them as long as this thread don't get to old.
Also i would get realy happy if CCP would take their time to comment on these options since they might be able to explain why Eve runs at so low FPS and what these options do and so on...
PS: Sorry for some of the spelling errors, my english is somewhat limited so please don't flame my spelling.
EDIT: I almost forgot, DarkLegacy made a nice post about the preformance of different GFXcard and its well worth a read!
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 03:05:00 -
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Edited by: Brunis on 21/11/2004 23:41:42 Oki i have played around with this for quite some while and ive made a list of stuff that will help increasing your FPS in Eve.
These changes should hold most of you unstill Shiva when the client side fixes (that people talk about) for FPS should get in game.
Okay here we go Tips for good FPS in Eve:
To tjeck at what FPS your Eve is running press "CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-M" - This will pop up a small windows showing FPS, it can also show other usefull stuff.
Turn of "Sun is occluded by ships" in the ESC menu under generic - This should boost your FPS a little while in-space[Newly added since i forgot to add this the first time]
Turn off sound card or just do a CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F12 in-game (EVERYTIME you start Eve!) - Eve seems to have problems with most sound cards so changing this should free some resources. Remember to tjeck the FPS counter with this option though, you might just be one of the lucky with a sound card that Eve works with.
Put in advancedDevice=1 (notice the lowercase a and upper case D) in your prefs.ini now some new settings have appeared in the graphics options in the ESC menu, change the "present interval" to intervel immediate - This one boosted my FPS alot! "Interval immediate" means "no vsync". "Interval one" means wait for vsync. "Interval default" is probably vsync on, depending on your display setup. For the full explanation see D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS in the DXSDK. <-- Thank you to Mark A for the info about what it does.
Change desktopHeight and desktopWidth to match thoes of your desktop in the prefs.ini - If your running your windows in 1600 x 1200 then change the settings to match those.
Change buffersize to half of what RAM you may have in the prefs.ini - So if you have 512MB RAM then you change it to 256MB
Disable any secondary display - This will give your GFX card less work to do but unless CPU is not your bottleneck this should not help much.
If posible upgrade your machine to 1024MB RAM or more - Eve uses alot of memory so upgrading to 1024MB or more should help quite a bit.
If sound card enabled try and turn off any hardware acc on it in "dxdiag" - Look at the other bit where i explained sound cards.
When in-game press CTRL-Tab to get rid of the UI (only if you can live without the scanner) - Eve seems to have some issues with the transparentcy in the UI, using this removes most of the UI and frees a lot of resources.
Close every program posible in Windows since Eve is VERY CPU demanding - Even stopping stuff like Winamp and mIRC will help, so close everything you don't need!
Run the game in full screen - This seems to boost the FPS for some reason but probely just Windows alocating more resources to Eve.
Change the eve.exe process priority in WinXP and Win2k by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, finding eve.exe in the Processes list, right clicking on it, and setting it to High - Thanks to Drakworlf for this one, note that this setting will make Windows give Eve most if not all resources, so don't do this if you have something important running in the background.
If running Eve on a laptop with a ATI card in it then this link might help also http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/, in there you can find a program to modify the normal cat drivers to work on mobility cards - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! The Cat are not made to run on mobility chips so using this might cause harm to your system, im using this my self on my laptop without any problem but it does not mean that you wont have problems!
Questions or surgestions are welcome and i will try and answer them as long as this thread don't get to old.
Also i would get realy happy if CCP would take their time to comment on these options since they might be able to explain why Eve runs at so low FPS and what these options do and so on...
PS: Sorry for some of the spelling errors, my english is somewhat limited so please don't flame my spelling.
EDIT: I almost forgot, DarkLegacy made a nice post about the preformance of different GFXcard and its well worth a read!
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Kraven Kor
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Posted - 2004.09.18 05:13:00 -
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Any idea, in prefs.ini, what the "network=0" and "networkAdvanced=0" do? My main problem is losing connection, not FPS /sigh.
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Kraven Kor
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Posted - 2004.09.18 05:13:00 -
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Any idea, in prefs.ini, what the "network=0" and "networkAdvanced=0" do? My main problem is losing connection, not FPS /sigh.
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Darkwolf
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Posted - 2004.09.18 05:49:00 -
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Edited by: Darkwolf on 18/09/2004 05:50:31 Sticky this NOW!
The buffer and interval suggestions kicked my FPS in-station up from around 15-20 all the way through to 50!
Note, you can also change the eve.exe process priority in WinXP and Win2k by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, finding eve.exe in the Processes list, right clicking on it, and setting it to High. Not sure how much effect this will have on it, though.
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Darkwolf
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Posted - 2004.09.18 05:49:00 -
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Edited by: Darkwolf on 18/09/2004 05:50:31 Sticky this NOW!
The buffer and interval suggestions kicked my FPS in-station up from around 15-20 all the way through to 50!
Note, you can also change the eve.exe process priority in WinXP and Win2k by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, finding eve.exe in the Processes list, right clicking on it, and setting it to High. Not sure how much effect this will have on it, though.
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Idono
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Posted - 2004.09.18 09:08:00 -
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Edited by: Idono on 18/09/2004 09:09:34 Sorry brunis but nothing you wrote worked.
but Darkwolfs priorety setting boosted my fps 150%+
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Idono
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Posted - 2004.09.18 09:08:00 -
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Edited by: Idono on 18/09/2004 09:09:34 Sorry brunis but nothing you wrote worked.
but Darkwolfs priorety setting boosted my fps 150%+
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Khyle
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Posted - 2004.09.18 09:35:00 -
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Good tips to try out, in my case the effect outside of stations was sadly minimal, but at least one or two things will work for each of us, i guess. I still have to try the buffer thing out in large engagements.
About window mode, while i get higher fps in station in fullscreen, my fps in space is actually higher in windowed mode(and has been since beta, where the difference was gross, like 2 times).
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Khyle
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Posted - 2004.09.18 09:35:00 -
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Good tips to try out, in my case the effect outside of stations was sadly minimal, but at least one or two things will work for each of us, i guess. I still have to try the buffer thing out in large engagements.
About window mode, while i get higher fps in station in fullscreen, my fps in space is actually higher in windowed mode(and has been since beta, where the difference was gross, like 2 times).
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VossKarr
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Posted - 2004.09.18 09:54:00 -
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Edited by: VossKarr on 18/09/2004 10:07:12
It looks like with "advancedDevice=1" you can also enable antialiasing by choosing "enable multisample quality" and selecting "2" in the drop down box that will appear. And it also seems that after setting my Z-Buffer to 24 bit, the Eve's colors became a bit more juicy than with the 16 bit setting. *shrugs*
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VossKarr
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Posted - 2004.09.18 09:54:00 -
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Edited by: VossKarr on 18/09/2004 10:07:12
It looks like with "advancedDevice=1" you can also enable antialiasing by choosing "enable multisample quality" and selecting "2" in the drop down box that will appear. And it also seems that after setting my Z-Buffer to 24 bit, the Eve's colors became a bit more juicy than with the 16 bit setting. *shrugs*
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Ka'ira
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Posted - 2004.09.18 10:39:00 -
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Nice work Brunis, worked like a charm!
Sticky!
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Ka'ira
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Posted - 2004.09.18 10:39:00 -
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Nice work Brunis, worked like a charm!
Sticky!
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Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:13:00 -
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Originally by: Darkwolf Edited by: Darkwolf on 18/09/2004 05:50:31 Sticky this NOW!
The buffer and interval suggestions kicked my FPS in-station up from around 15-20 all the way through to 50!
Note, you can also change the eve.exe process priority in WinXP and Win2k by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, finding eve.exe in the Processes list, right clicking on it, and setting it to High. Not sure how much effect this will have on it, though.
Thank you, it have been added to the list now
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:13:00 -
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Originally by: Darkwolf Edited by: Darkwolf on 18/09/2004 05:50:31 Sticky this NOW!
The buffer and interval suggestions kicked my FPS in-station up from around 15-20 all the way through to 50!
Note, you can also change the eve.exe process priority in WinXP and Win2k by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, finding eve.exe in the Processes list, right clicking on it, and setting it to High. Not sure how much effect this will have on it, though.
Thank you, it have been added to the list now
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:15:00 -
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Originally by: Kraven Kor Any idea, in prefs.ini, what the "network=0" and "networkAdvanced=0" do? My main problem is losing connection, not FPS /sigh.
If i remember right setting the networkAdvanced=0 to 1 would give you some extra settings in the login menu like saving password and some other stuff, don't think theres anything that will help you stay connected.
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:15:00 -
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Originally by: Kraven Kor Any idea, in prefs.ini, what the "network=0" and "networkAdvanced=0" do? My main problem is losing connection, not FPS /sigh.
If i remember right setting the networkAdvanced=0 to 1 would give you some extra settings in the login menu like saving password and some other stuff, don't think theres anything that will help you stay connected.
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:18:00 -
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Originally by: Idono Edited by: Idono on 18/09/2004 09:09:34 Sorry brunis but nothing you wrote worked.
but Darkwolfs priorety setting boosted my fps 150%+
They should all give you a FPS boost, but if the priority change gave you that much it seems you have something in Windows that takes alot of resources. I will soon make a list over services and other stuff in Windows that can be turned of and save some resources.
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:18:00 -
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Originally by: Idono Edited by: Idono on 18/09/2004 09:09:34 Sorry brunis but nothing you wrote worked.
but Darkwolfs priorety setting boosted my fps 150%+
They should all give you a FPS boost, but if the priority change gave you that much it seems you have something in Windows that takes alot of resources. I will soon make a list over services and other stuff in Windows that can be turned of and save some resources.
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
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Lomithrandra
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:30:00 -
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Made sticky, hope this helps some people.
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Lomithrandra
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:30:00 -
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Made sticky, hope this helps some people.
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Speknek
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:42:00 -
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Changing the buffersize and interval and turning the sound off helped alot for me when running 2 clients using dual monitors
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Speknek
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:42:00 -
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Changing the buffersize and interval and turning the sound off helped alot for me when running 2 clients using dual monitors
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Dallenn
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:58:00 -
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I have seen WinXP consume only 256MB of RAM while running Eve, never beyond that really.
We seek the Chosen ones / Roleplaying in Eve / Idea Lab favourites
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Dallenn
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Posted - 2004.09.18 12:58:00 -
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I have seen WinXP consume only 256MB of RAM while running Eve, never beyond that really.
We seek the Chosen ones / Roleplaying in Eve / Idea Lab favourites
I am Paratwa / Of the Ash Ock A Guardian of time / The firestorm / That purifies |
Elysia
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Posted - 2004.09.18 13:07:00 -
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Turning interval to "immediate" and changing the buffer size helped loads for me. Thank-you.
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Elysia
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Posted - 2004.09.18 13:07:00 -
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Turning interval to "immediate" and changing the buffer size helped loads for me. Thank-you.
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Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 13:15:00 -
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Originally by: Dallenn I have seen WinXP consume only 256MB of RAM while running Eve, never beyond that really.
This might be because you havent changed the buffersize and therefor not alowed Eve to use more memory.. But have to admit its only a guess
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
Brunis
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Posted - 2004.09.18 13:15:00 -
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Originally by: Dallenn I have seen WinXP consume only 256MB of RAM while running Eve, never beyond that really.
This might be because you havent changed the buffersize and therefor not alowed Eve to use more memory.. But have to admit its only a guess
/Brunis Another dog lifting its leg |
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