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FPS Creator X10 / Why FPS so low?

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ninja9578
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 02:27
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I just got my copy of X10

I opened one of the prefab rooms, the ones from the tutorials with the enemies and elevator and such, in the middle of an empty room, it hovers around 30fps, when I get near a wall or there are enemies in the frame, it dips close to or below 10. What's wrong?

256MB VRAM
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Vista Ultimate running on my new Macbook

Also. I saw an option for Texture quality... does this mean that FPS doesn't do mipmapping? That would certainly explain the huge drop in FPS when I get close to the wall, upsampling is so much more expensive than downsampling. FPS engines should always have a large enough range of mipmaps that it always downsamples.

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Nomad Soul
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 10:57
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FPSC X10 does mipmapping.
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seth zer0
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 15:58
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my guess and i hate to say this with it being your NEW macbook and all. But your graphics card... I don't think it can handle it my old nvidia quadro 570m(a.k.a. 8600m gt) had problems running x10 to.. Try and turn the resolution down to 1280x720(if its a wide screen) see if that help it did for me..

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ninja9578
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@Nomad Soul. Then what does texture quality do? Is that just for cutting down on executable size or something?

I don't see an option for resolution, where is it? I really hope it's not the graphics card. I want other people to be able to play my games and the new Macbook isn't exactly a slow duck. Huh, now it doens't seem to want to make anything, it crashes most of hte way throught eh build. I'll reinstall and try again

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seth zer0
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Posted: 4th Apr 2009 10:08 Edited at: 4th Apr 2009 10:09
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You have to change your desktop resolution because fps creator detects that and set up off your comps res. look at the specs need to run fps creator x10 on the package. I really don't think the 9400m is up to pare with what you need to run at full effects yes it would run but not at 100%. also try to turn off the water and any refraction. Refraction on windows slowed down to almost a crawl on my 570m.

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ninja9578
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The 9400m is the latest in mobile graphics cards. In other words, my game will not work on any laptop? Oh well, I can run it at a lower resolution. I plan to have a changeable setting for resolution in the final game anyway. In X10, that's still a matter of just changing a value in a text file right?

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Scurvy Lobster
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Posted: 4th Apr 2009 17:25 Edited at: 4th Apr 2009 17:27
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Sorry ninja9578 but 9400m i actually on the low end of modern mobile graphics cards. You can see nVidias list of cards here. It can do a lot of games fine but intensive DX10 games will probably be too much for it.

FPSC X10 automatically detects resolution so there is no settings for it.
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Is the video card intigrated? If it is, that may be the problem. On board video cards are not good.

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