Performance improvement

[citizen]

Earlier version took nearly one of my CPU cores. The current only 32% of 1 core. Wow. This performance improvement is real?

[ThomPhoenix]

There was a bug that made PS draw 100% cpu on Linux.

[citizen]

There was a bug that made PS draw 100% cpu on Linux.

Then
1. I was lucky to have 2 cores
2. There really is a big improvement.

[Jonerian]

Thanks a lot for the improvement . I was only on for a short time, but it felt a lot smoother somehow. I didn't check the CPU-usage so.

[Mythryndel]

I was really excited after reading this post, but I am still experiencing extreme lag in my client under Fedora 8. Are there known issues under Fedora 8 or any work-arounds? I have tried scaling back several settings with no change.

I am running 32-bit Intel proc at 3.2GHz (P4 with HyperThreading enabled) and 4 GB RAM. nVidia Graphics dual-screen graphics card. This is about 3 years old, but is certainly not a slow machine.

EDIT: by lag, i mean extremely high cpu usage and unresponsive client, not ping time to server.

[Jonerian]

I have like an 7 year old computer that only got tweaked a bit. The only thing I did for this release to work fluently:

Turned off Multisample for quality. Checked Preload Models. Increased the full screen resolution to 1280x1024 (native resolution)
And very important: inGame I turned on Adaptive Distance with (30,15,30 I think). Sometimes you see weird graphics in the distance, but it doesn't affect performance.

800 MHz Arch Linux 512 MB RAM GeForce 5200 256 MB (set the commas appropriately :-P)

PS:
Yes, I tweaked the maximum out of that motherboard, anything else would be a complete new machine..

[Mythryndel]

OK... I am all fixed. I traced it back to my video card settings. I can't tell you which setting was causing my problems, but glxgears was causing X to chew up 100% cpu also. I am running 16-bit color depth and all is well.

[Sunshine]

Thanks Jonerian

Your settings made PS playable again for me.

Sunshine