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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0007171 | Valley 1 | Graphical Bug | Apr 19, 2012 3:01 am | Apr 19, 2012 5:37 pm | |
| Reporter | Toll | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Severity | minor | ||||
| Status | closed | Resolution | not fixable | ||
| Product Version | 0.932 | ||||
| Summary | 0007171: Server console not limiting FPS | ||||
| Description | I've long suspected something was up with the server console (it's murder when I'm using a remote desktop), but I haven't seen why until now. It seems to not have any kind of limit on FPS, even with the "target framerate" down to a minimum of 20FPS. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Fix Before Major Release | ||||
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Yeah, unfortunately the polling rate is tied to the framerate, as is the general simulation rate. Therefore it's locked at 100fps on the server intentionally, so that you get good multiplayer performance. If you actually had managed to turn it down to 20fps, the performance quality degradation in the game would be enormous |
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Is it a concern that I can cap it to 60 by turning on V-Sync (60 being the refresh-rate of my monitor)? Or is 60 "good enough"? |
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60 is essentially good enough -- for Internet in particular. If you were playing on LAN, you'd want to crank it as high as you could. 60 is 16ms cycles, so honestly that's not bad at all. We could probably go as low as 20 and not have it actually impact a fairly-distant Internet connection, but even 60 would be a noticeable impact on a LAN. It's just one of those features that folks can shoot themselves in the foot with and then wonder why the networking performance is bad. ;) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Apr 19, 2012 3:01 am | Toll | New Issue | |
| Apr 19, 2012 3:01 am | Toll | File Added: Screenshot_2012_04_19_08_56_25.png | |
| Apr 19, 2012 9:30 am | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Fix Before Major Release |
| Apr 19, 2012 9:30 am | tigersfan | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Apr 19, 2012 9:30 am | tigersfan | Status | new => assigned |
| Apr 19, 2012 4:50 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0022392 | |
| Apr 19, 2012 4:50 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => closed |
| Apr 19, 2012 4:50 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => not fixable |
| Apr 19, 2012 5:32 pm | Toll | Note Added: 0022399 | |
| Apr 19, 2012 5:37 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0022403 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:29 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Bug - Graphical Issue => Graphical Bug |
