Drop of framerate in Bronze Doors area

[Dwayo]

Since 0.4.000 version of Planeshift I have a serious problem with BD area. The only thing that I found on forums is Talad's post from 2006. about similar matter but it's not helping in my case.
When I enter BD area things are going smooth for about 2-3 minutes and then suddenly my framerate falls like 0.2 frames/second and it stayes like that until I quit and relog. After relog I can again play for 2-3 minutes and then ...bang.... all over again. I tried with camera adjusting but my machine can handle BD graphic. I'm not an expert but it looks to me like some memory leak that fills the cup after some time.
I'm running updater every day.
My computer is:
Intel Celeron 2,4 MHz
1 GB DDR1 RAM
ATI Radeon 9550 GE 256MB
Creative Sound Blaster LIVE!

In 0.3.20 BD was fine for me. All happened after upgrade to 0.4.000.
Thank you for your time and good will.

[Seneche]

I'm pretty sure its a memory leak. I'm on linux, and I was monitering my performance there, and saw a gradual increase in the amount of memory and swap space that was being used there. That's just my guess though.

[Dwayo]

Are you people playing in Bronze Doors without problems?
I talked to Noxide too, and he's been saying that he has the similar problem....

[Elvicat]

for me bd is playable but it has it's... jerking moments, tho i noticed that on my old pc it lags as you describe

[Aro]

I've got this too, I can play in BD for about 10-15 minutes, then get a huge wave of lag that I can't even move in.  This has happened twice so far.

[StitchedChin]

Consistent for me too.  If I reload while in BD, it is fine until something triggers it to stutter, probably like they've said in other posts, the waterfall, torches, etc.  It usually stutters every 2 seconds I counted as I'm running.  There was a particle issue back in '06 early '07, so not sure if that is still the case?  It is a massively cool looking area, so I can see how there'd be issues, but just seeing if there was maybe a fix or if they needed any feedback on this area.  This looks to be the newest post on BD?  I tried some different settings, turned on SLI, load all maps in the beginning, vertex, aliasing, etc, but still get the 2 sec quick stutter.  Still playable for me, though I thought for sure I'd fall off the side a couple times when it stutters and when it recovers, my mouse is accidentally pointing off the ledge.  Keeps it interesting on long road trips.

AMD X2 4600+
4 GB RAM
2 x Geforce 7600 GT

[elois]

same here, i'm at the waterfall.  Stutters every second.  Visual settings have no effect.  I'm on linux.

[hulla]

Hi
I Know !

http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=31768.0

and i have lag in the new town to !

[Aro]

Sorry, but this is really starting to bother me.  Should I just avoid BD?  Or is there an actual fix for this one?

Yeah, I know,  

But I would really appreciate an answer.

*Edit:  Sorry if this sounded a little mean...  I just didn't see any attention being paid to this one, and it annoyed me.

Here's my system specs if that helps...

Computer type (i.e. Powerbook, G4 Tower, etc):  Macbook
Mac OS Version (x.x.x): 10.5.whatever is most current
Processor (speed, type): 2 GHz ,Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 1 GB
Video Card (type, VRAM): GMA X3100, 144 MB

[Rizin]

Just because we do not post on it does not mean we are not working on it.

Thank you for providing more information.

[tadill]

-fullbright fixed the low framerate in bd for me

[Aro]

Alright, thanks Rizin, I feel better now.

[Durwyn]

-fullbright fixed the low framerate in bd for me

as it did for me too, even Gugrondid is better now. 

[Aiken]

I'll put my hand up as another that will only go near bd with -fullbright. The map is too jerky otherwise.

[Gravemind]

I went through BD and found that pitch black area of ground, used fullbright and got through it ok, then I cant remember exactly but I may have turned fullbright off but the thing was while walking through BD the screen would freeze for a couple frames every 5 seconds or so. Will test to see if fullbright fixes it.