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Offline Jez

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Massive lag when firing flamethrower
« on: April 29, 2012, 02:50:18 am »
I've been playing UFO AI since around 2.2, so I know that using the flamethrower has usually been associated with a dip in framerate. In 2.4 however, my FPS drops from a steady 47 to 2, and then to less than 1, so much so that it feels like the game is going to freeze every time I use it. A lesser but similar effect is also apparent when firing other guns, I think it has something do with dynamic lighting.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit with an i5-760 and an Nvidia 560 Ti if that helps.

Cheers, Jez.

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Re: Massive lag when firing flamethrower
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2012, 04:24:29 am »
UPDATE: Yep, disabling dynamic lighting seems to have fixed the problem with a steady framerate during weapon firing now. Sorry all.  :-[

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Re: Massive lag when firing flamethrower
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2012, 10:42:47 am »
hi. you also should provide the game logs to see what the game detected.

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Re: Massive lag when firing flamethrower
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2012, 10:43:54 am »
hi. you also should provide the game logs to see what the game detected.

and create a ticket on our bug tracking system

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Re: Massive lag when firing flamethrower
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2012, 11:02:31 am »
Hmmm its unlikely the cause of the fps drop is your processor or your graphic card. My sys specs are a bit lower than yours and i havnt noticed any problems with dynamic lightning (max light sources).