Ryzom

Now I keep having fps troubles and a post in general about running the game with all setting high, made me rethink my system.
I seem to be doing something wrong, but cannot figure out what that would be.

My setup:
1152x864 windowed (19" and no tired eyes for me!)
Athlon 2400+ @ 2GHz
1Gb of cheap 2700 DDR
ASUS 9570TD (GForce 5700@425 256@500, ramdac@400)
2x Maxtor Diamondmax 10, one is 80GB (sysdisk, docs, mp3, etc) other is 120Gb Ryzom only disk, striped the swapfile over both.
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (with 4.1 speakers), EAX is on btw, 32 channels turned on in Ryzom.

All graphical settings are standard medium in Ryzom, xcept textures, I gave that setting: "128".
For the gfx card, settings are applicationdriven, except for performence bar, that is halfway.

For some reason, this will get me 21-25 fps, graphics are nice.
When I turn my settings like AA or AF up, fps will drop to 8-10 (a very good looking 8, but still).

I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong here....

Remember I dont really care for loading times, just fps has to be high .

Grtz,

Hmm, tis a tricky one Seems like a good setup to me, but I don't know how recent a GF5700 is, I got bored of gfx cards and stopped remembering which did what and how well!

Your 'striping' of the swapfile won't be doing any favours, and may even be hitting your performance in a minor way. My advice there is to run the swapfile on the disk that doesn't contain Ryzom, as I have with my setup. Splitting a big file over two disks will be a hindrance for windows, since there is no real halfway point or boundary in a swapfile - windows may look to allocate an amount of memory that requires both swap files to be open, as soon as that happens, you have no benefits (and windows is also thrashing the disk that contains Ryzom).

The only kind of striping that would help here is true RAID striping. And with a RAID 1 setup, 4 disks (i.e. 2 volumes) would be best. Then, you have the benefit of striping for performance, and you can still locate the windows swapfile on a volume that doesn't contain the Ryzom files. For optimal RAID 1 performance, you should use two IDE RAID channels, or a SCSI setup.

If you need raw performance, and have the disks available to setup a RAID array (even if it's just IDE RAID from a motherboard controller), RAID 1 is your friend Oops I'm going off on a tangent here...

As I said I don't know the score with the GeForce 5700, but getting one of the up-to-date cards (if that isn't) may boost your FPS slightly. I get the feeling most people have the FPS you mentioned, I'm fairly sure mine is in that range (20-30FPS) with a Radeon 9800 Pro (128). Generally Ryzom runs sweetly for me, although entering /exiting certain cities creates 'lag from hell', and that's no exagerration! That's probably my excuse for the RAID waffle above, since most of my lag is accompanied by massive disk thrashing.

Maybe I should mention I have a dual screen setup?

Also, the gfx card is two months old (180 Euro's) and honestly, I am not planning to replace it

20fps in ryzom is very good already

hans1976 wrote:Maybe I should mention I have a dual screen setup?

Also, the gfx card is two months old (180 Euro's) and honestly, I am not planning to replace it

Go on, upgrade, you know you want to

The dual-screen setup may have an influence on your framerate, but I'm not 100% certain about that. Do you run Ryzom windowed then?

Yes, but it is solved, around 25-30 now. Will tell later how I did that...

In short how I doubled my fps and also could turn Antialiasing up (now 2x, will test to see at 4x)
- A memory setting in teh BIOS was manually set. I have no clue why, but put that on auto
- using 64 Mo textures now in stead of 128
- all settings in the game to medium as I seem to like fps better then bling
- turned off the second screen and now play the game fullscreen 1280x1024

Still sharp, still good looking, lotsa screenwidth and very smooth. Will meddle some more to get a steady 25 while getting better gfx....

Please give me a hint how to diplay fps.

I use a little programme called Fraps, you can make record vids with it too!
http://www.fraps.com

Grtz,

there is a button in game that displays stats like your ping. Damned if I can remember the button though. X or something.