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Author Topic: Massive fps drop when scrolling?  (Read 438 times)

alphawolf29

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Massive fps drop when scrolling?
« on: April 12, 2009, 05:06:15 pm »
This hasent happened to me before-

I started a new game on the side of a mountain (usually just play flat forests) and whenever i scroll the fps drops from 100 to 19 and stays there for some few seconds before popping back up to 100, this is very annoying as i must keep my camera still when unpaused if i want the game to progress at any descent rate.

Is the introduction of many more Z levels to blame?

Is there any known fixes for this?
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inaluct

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Re: Massive fps drop when scrolling?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2009, 10:23:35 pm »
Set your FPS cap to 6. No more slowdowns.
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castun

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Re: Massive fps drop when scrolling?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2009, 10:24:19 pm »
I noticed this when I started a game with the maximum sized local area, but it may be similar to your problem if you have a lot more Z levels, simply because there's going to be more critters to keep track of.
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Re: Massive fps drop when scrolling?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2009, 05:49:26 pm »
As a slight bump to this topic and an FPS related question:
my FPS on my laptop severely drops whenever I switch to fullscreen mode, is my laptop just shit? xP
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Zancor Mezoran

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Re: Massive fps drop when scrolling?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2009, 05:51:20 pm »
I think I might have this problem as well, but I am not sure.  Although, I do have an entirely different problem where my FPS drops when I'm playing windowed and I move the mouse over the game window.
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