Frame rate test results...

[Cyanide]

I did some testing the other day. I found that serious frame rate drops occur when there should be only very minimal or no frame rate drops. Here are my system specs:

1.5ghz AthlonXP
1gig DDR ram
geforce4 TI4600
soundblaster live Xgamer
WindowsXP pro
DirectX 9a
All my drivers are up to date
I play UT2003 on maximum settings in the biggest fights on the biggest maps in the game and never drop below 60fps.
My settings in game really don't matter. I play at 1024x768 and changing any graphical settings in game causes a fps variation of 1 or 2 depending on weather i'm turning settings up or down. Example: max detail with max res is only 1-2 fps slower than 1024x768 with all detail turned off.

Anyway. I found that firing your own weapon, even when staring directly at a wall with nothing else in view lowers the fps by 20-25 frames per second. Now this seems a little bit steep to me. I think something is wrong here. Firing your own gun with almost no polys to render should not drop your fps by 20 or more.

I also verified some testing doen by another beta tester that showed a sharp fps drop when looking in the direction of an active base. Even if said base and the action going on there are not visible at all.

Here is a link to my the screens i took to prove my testing.
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...6453&members=1


edit: I just thought i would warn those of you who aren't in beta that just because your high end system runs other games perfectly does not mean it will run planetside. 20% or so of the people beta testing PS are having this issue and all of them have high end system. This is NOT going to be resolved in beta because the devs do not seem eiger to even acknowledge that it's a problem.