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[Duke 2.0]

 I have determined why I suck.
 I just turned on my FPS monitor while playing. The damn thing drops to a dead 10 fps every time I get close to somebody or bullets are being shot at me. As you can imagine, this makes it difficult to judge shots, where people are dodging to and how to backstab properly. Any advice on how to increase my FPS other than lowering the settings, or any non obvious settings in particular?

[ToonyMan]

Lower the resolution.
I play on 640x480 all the time, it's mad fast for my 3 year old computer.

EDIT:

RAEG

WorkerDrone is like those grandpa's that force you to watch a long, boring movie with them and then fall asleep five minutes in.

[DFC] WorkerDrone: TOONYMAN.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: SERVER.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: NOW.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: I NEED TO BLOW YOU UP
[DFC] ToonyMan: Oh.
[DFC] ToonyMan: Alright.
[DFC] ToonyMan: I'll be demo.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: Okay.
[DFC] WorkerDrone: I'll be soldier.
[DFC] ToonyMan: >:[
[DFC] WorkerDrone:
[DFC] WorkerDrone is now playing Team Fortress 2. Click here to join.
[DFC] WorkerDrone is now playing Team Fortress 2. Click here to join.
[DFC] WorkerDrone is now Offline.

[umiman]

That's a very good analogy. It does seem to fit very well.

[Sowelu]

Lower the resolution.
I play on 640x480 all the time, it's mad fast for my 3 year old computer.

Seconded.  So many people are obsessed with high res.  Speed is WAY better than high res.

[Volatar]

Lower the resolution.
I play on 640x480 all the time, it's mad fast for my 3 year old computer.

Seconded.  So many people are obsessed with high res.  Speed is WAY better than high res.

I have the benefit of both 

[Zai]

I have the benefit of both 

But you have the detriment of EXTREME COWARD.

[PTTG??]

I'm lucky enough to have a fantastically powerful computer and thus get all kinds of wonderful graphics. However, I have a little cell-phone antenna internet connection and have to share the connection with everybody else. It's like a nuclear-powered submarine with a twelve-foot snorkel for air.

On annother note, can anyone hear me when I use the mic? I've always had trouble getting the levels on it to work properly.

[Zai]

I'm lucky enough to have a fantastically powerful computer and thus get all kinds of wonderful graphics. However, I have a little cell-phone antenna internet connection and have to share the connection with everybody else. It's like a nuclear-powered submarine with a twelve-foot snorkel for air.

On annother note, can anyone hear me when I use the mic? I've always had trouble getting the levels on it to work properly.

You were saying you should get a mic when I was on. So I wouldn't know. =X

I should probably buy another mic as well; see if it's my audio card that won't recognize a mic (pretty sure that's it), or if the mic I have is just complete crap. I meant to test this with my laptop that has a mic built in (as in, I already know its audio card is fine and dandy), but before I got around to it, the laptop was...compromised. I need to wipe it and reload XP on it.

[umiman]

I have a large monitor, a good card to run the game at 1680 x 1050, and decent fps.

The only thing I don't have is good ping (200+) on the DFC server, hahaha. Still doesn't stop me from getting top scores though.

Zai: I think audio cards that don't support mikes haven't been built in... 20 years.

[Thexor]

On annother note, can anyone hear me when I use the mic? I've always had trouble getting the levels on it to work properly.

Try putting "voice_loopback 1" into the console - it'll let you hear your own voice. It's disorientating, but at least it provides accurate results (unlike that silly mike test thingy). Once you've got an acceptable volume, turn it off with "voice_loopback 0" and you're good to go!

[Zai]

Zai: I think audio cards that don't support mikes haven't been built in... 20 years.

Nono. It "supports" them. It just doesn't recognize when I plug mine in.

Oh. And apologies to PTTG for possibly ruining his fun by constantly backstabbing him when he made it almost to the cart as Heavy every time. Wasted several minutes doing that.

[Tradanbattlan]

I have a similar problem. My PC detects the Mic, says it's prepped to go, but the mic doesnt do anything.

[Metalax]

On annother note, can anyone hear me when I use the mic? I've always had trouble getting the levels on it to work properly.

I was able to hear you fine while we were playing so it looks like it's working.


Good games tonight after I got back from the pub. With a couple of excessively good random snipers for a while.(and yes I checked then out, they weren't aim-boting as some thought afaict, they were missing far to often for that)

[Zai]

(and yes I checked then out, they weren't aim-boting as some thought afaict, they were missing far to often for that)

Jakkarra just likes to yell HAX0RZ!!!!

[Metalax]

Yeah ;-) but to be fair they were much better than the normal randoms we get coming along to the server. Certainly enough to warrant checking them out.