Framerate cripples when looking towards cave entrance to Bronze Doors

[Rolf Blacksmith]

When I look towards the big cavern opening between the waterfall and the open land, PS literally becomes a dia-show. I get about 2 FPS if I'm lucky. this always happens when I look in the direction of the opening, even if I don't actually see anything of it, and it happens from any angles, be it from outside or from within.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?
It could be that something is wrong on my client, since I had to insert the data dir manually into the PS folder as the linux package is incomplete.
Still it is strange ...

System:
AMD Athlon 1700
1 GB Ram
Kernel 2.6.17
GeForce 6600

[Kymizer]

there were just some new updates, at least for the windows version.  Have you downloaded those yet from the updater??

[Rolf Blacksmith]

Nope.
I touched the updater once with the new version and regretted it. Had to reinstall PS after that.
Maybe I'll try the CVS version, but not today ...

[Kymizer]

okie doke, i wish you good luck!

[Easton]

i have the same thing. im on windows though. my framerate drops completely. if im lucky my client won't freeze for a few minutes, but it always ends up the same way.. apparently its a known bug and its within CS so they have to find Jorrit or someone to fix the problem. That what i hear at least..

Easton

[Wired_Crawler]

I had the same problem not only with Bronze Door area, but also with most portals in all maps. The way I fixed it is there: -> about portals and low performance.

Additional note: Planeshift does not use directories <ps install dir>/data/config and <ps install dir>/data/shader. It uses $CRYSTAL/data/config and $CRYSTAL/data/shader (if $CRYSTAL=<ps install dir> it doesn't matter). This reminds me of problems of (windows) users, which had CRYSTAL variable set pointing to CrystalSpace installation directory (weird looking textures, weird colors).
So, if you have set environmental variable CRYSTAL and you use binary distribution of Planeshift, unset CRYSTAL before starting the game.

If it does not help You, try to download older versions of files data/shader/std_lighting.xml and data/shader/snippets/std_lighting.cscg (they must be versions not changed after 23.03.2006) from CS SVN repository and put them in appropriate places.

[Rolf Blacksmith]

Installing the Nvidia CG Toolkit didn't help anything.
I'll try the mentioned older files.

[Gondric]

i get the slow but it goes down to bout 5/sec i can stil play quite easily with it tho.

[Wired_Crawler]

Installing the Nvidia CG Toolkit didn't help anything.

Judging from the following words:

... as the linux package is incomplete.

you are using binary distribution. Remember, that libraries from Cg toolkit (libCg.so and libCgGL.so) must go to subdirectory "libs" in PS installation directory (or "lib" in case of Induane's version). I have checked binary installers of PS and I can confirm, that they use libraries from older version of Cg toolkit.
NVidia also recommends using latest graphics driver, so update if You have older one.

[LigH]

Well, of course, looking at the waterfall makes PlaneShift slower.

But fortunately, I don't have any GPU which is loaded of hardly necessary shader effects. I prefer to move the camera away (mouse wheel) and look rather downwards until I am near the entrance.

My system and setup:

AMD Duron 800, 512 MB RAM; GeForce2 GTS, 32 MB; 1280x960@32bpp; no FSAA.

[Wired_Crawler]

Well, of course, looking at the waterfall makes PlaneShift slower.

Yes, of course, but it is not the main cause (at least for me). The effect is the same for most portals. "Inner" and "outer" parts of bronzedoors map are in different sectors connected through big portal.

A little demonstration. It is in DR, but I get similar results also for Bronze Doors region. Look at FPS counter in left lower corner (displayed by bugplug)

1) libCg.so and libCgGL.so from last unofficial binary distribution for Linux, I can't even figure out, what version of Cg it is (files size does not match any of 1.2.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5beta1, 1.5beta2); result also applies (more or less) for version 1.4.0


2) libCg.so and libCgGL.so from Cg toolkit 1.4.1


43.31/6.49=6.67x more fps in case 2 . Nvidia GeForce FX 5600

[Rolf Blacksmith]

Well, good to know ...

The linux binary doesn't work right now, anyway, so I can't do much testing with the new libs right now (compiling loads of other stuff right now, so now source client, either).
But thanks for the advice, anyway! :-)