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110 months ago by
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXdioNXy6LU

A lot of people seemed to be complaining about the missiles lagging lately, so I thought I'd do a little test. I went around launching missiles into two asteroids with fraps on, and shot a enemy or two for good measure.

On the first asteroid, my fps dropped down to around 30, and on the second I went down to 20. Granted this was with FRAPS on, but I think it shows something is happening that makes the second asteroid worse... I'm not experiencing the 1 FPS some people say they get though.

My PC specs:

Intel i7 920 @ 3.8 GHz
12gb DDR3
Radeon 5870 Crossfire
4x 400gb hard drives in RAID 0

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I will admit that I've experienced slowdowns when using insane amounts of missiles, including during the recent build, but I would like to add that testing whether missiles lag your game WHILE recording in-game footage using FRPAS is a bad idea. I know from experience that most games lag to various degrees when recording using FRAPS, and Miner Wars 2081 is no exception. If you were to view the original footage for my video "Extreme Destruction in Miner Wars 2081" (which can be found on my YouTube channel "That Which Is Epic"), which was recorded using FRAPS, you would see that it lags horrendously when using the missiles - down to 15 FPS at times - but the average framerate for me when using tons of missiles when NOT using FRAPS is around 45-60 FPS.

If I were to make an educated guess about this, what's probably the issue in all cases is all the particle trails the missiles leave behind colliding with each other, either causing framerate-crippling clipping resolutions or some other graphics side-effect which I don't know about.

To put my above comments into perspective, here's my system specs:

Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4-3.6GHz
4GB DDR2 Memory + 3.81GB ReadyBoost memory (with 770MB of regular memory inexplicably reserved for hardware)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 x1 (single-card configuration) plugged into a PCI-Express 1.0 x16 slot
One 295GB and one 1TB hard drive
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card

EDIT: First paragraph edited to accurately describe symptoms I witness when using FRAPS.

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