FPS problem - very small amount.

  • xoes
    16th Mar 2014 Member 0 Permalink
     
    Welcome. Great game which met today but I have a problem. FPS. Is there a way to increase their number. I do not know what to blame, and if it's possible but the amount falls below 10 at even the smallest effects of the type of snow, sand. The game becomes simply unplayable. Can you do to help?
  • mniip
    16th Mar 2014 Developer 2 Permalink
    @xoes (View Post)
    The game runs at as much FPS as it can. (up to 60)
    If it is less than 60 FPS, it means that your computer just isn't fast enough. You can however try removing some of the load by using a less aggressive view mode, e.g. press 8.
  • jenn4
    16th Mar 2014 Member 1 Permalink
    Sounds like your computer is too slow to run TPT any faster.

    There - however - might be some other problem, so could you post your computer specs, please? (Processor, amount of RAM memory, operating system.)
  • boxmein
    16th Mar 2014 Former Staff 1 Permalink
    @xoes (View Post)
    TPT is a game from an awfully slow game genre - tens of thousands of different particles, rendered and shaded and blended in and updated and moved and relocated - in that you can't simply make it faster without optimizing the source code very aggressively, or by just getting better hardware.
  • xoes
    16th Mar 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    Thank you for your help but I already know everything. I have not played any games for a lon time and that is the problem.
    My computer reaches only 20 FPS when nothing happens. But even a small bomb kills my CPU. Constantly at 100% usage. Unfortunately, his core was damaged during lubrication.
    OMG what have I done. Every other game cut (soldat, CS etc.). I think that even if I wanted to play Snake it would pruned.
    For a long time I did not play anything and did not see it.
    Such a fun game, right away I liked. It is fantastic. Unfortunately I have to wait until buy new equipment. Thanks again and I'm sorry.
    Can be closed at least until I buy components.

  • boxmein
    16th Mar 2014 Former Staff 1 Permalink
    @xoes (View Post)
    It's okay - nobody's expected to run TPT with 60 frames per second all the time. You won't lose out on the experience with a lesser-than-60 framerate. CS and Soldat have the advantage that they can send parts of the game off to the graphics card for very efficient parallel rendering, as well as the fact that instead of thousands of particles they deal with common graphical primitives such as triangles and textures and lighting, all of which are extremely fast with a graphics card. TPT can't in comparison because every particle depends on each other and rendering depends on particles so nothing can easily be parallelized.