BVE: FPS cap

[Stooopid_person]

I think this has been discussed before at Crotrainz BVE forum, but since it is gone, I'll have to ask again here.
I remember the highest you can get for frame rates is 30fps. But, now, I can only get 21fps maximum, no matter what route, what train, what BVE version, etc... But for drawing distance, no matter what I set it, it still remains at 21fps, except, at 600m, where it keeps on changing from 21 to 22 and back again, but mostly on 21fps.
I had none of these problems, surprisingly, with my 667mhz! I could get 30fps on almost any route, with the drawing distance at 300m of course...
My system specs
P4 2.53Ghz
768MB RAM
64MB ATI Radeon 9000
WIn XP Home

[Craig]

RE: FPS cap

The frame rate is capped at 25FPS with Windows XP. However if you play something in Media Player and then leave it running while you use BVE, then a frame rate of 30FPS can be achieved.

You graphics card will have more effect on the frame rate than your processor. I have a P4 1.7Ghz with a GeForce 4 graphics card and Windows XP. I can get 25-30FPS on X-City south as far as Five Ways.

[TomBoyRacer]

RE: FPS cap

i get 29-30fps on all routes except x-city south xp. i'm using windows 98SE

[Holzroller]

RE: FPS cap

I get a steady 30 fps on most routes including most of x-city. I'm using a P4 2ghz, geforce3 64 mb, 512mb ram and home XP. Drawing distance is at 600m.

[nigelb]

RE: FPS cap

I usually get 29fps except areas like New Street in Birmingham X-City when it will drop to 8fps. WinXP home, P4 1.8ghz, Nvidia Geofce 2 MX400 with 64mb. this is without opening media player prior to running, which I did try but it did not appear to make any difference. Oh, drawing distance is set to the max.

[NathanWhitington]

RE: FPS cap

I get 21fps as a maximum on two routes that I have put on here. I have Microsoft Windows XP Pro (with XP Office Pro) an ATi Raedon 9000 128MB Graphics Card, AMD Athlon™ 1.67 Ghz, 512MB DD RAM.
I have however optimised my PC for higher performance rather than the fancy graphical rubbish.

One thing I haven't been able to do is get it to run in full screen (640x480) I've tried running it in compatibility mode for Windows 2000. Does anyone have any tips?

[RailRide]

RE: FPS cap

Toshiba 2805-S503 laptop, 128MB RAM (now 320) Pentium III 900 MHz, GeForce 2Go! graphics, Windows Me.

29-30FPS everywhere but the ending of X-City. Haven't tried the Piccadilly yet, though I'm pretty sure there are some lines that cause occasional framerate drops but I can't pinpoint which ones right now.

---PCJ

[Tim Frost]

RE: FPS cap

Can you really tell the difference between 21 and 30fps anyways?

Once you're above 20, it's all basically fluid movement.

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[Stooopid_person]

RE: FPS cap

>The frame rate is capped at 25FPS with Windows XP.

But I can't even get 25FPS! I can only get 21FPS! But I could get 30FPS with my 667Mhz, which was Win98.
But I notice, in the bewlo messages, they say they can get 30FPS with WinXP Home.

[Stooopid_person]

RE: FPS cap

>Can you really tell the difference between 21 and 30fps
>anyways?
>
>Once you're above 20, it's all basically fluid movement.

A lot of difference. The older movies was at 18fps, the present one is at 24fps. So at 18fps, the stuttering is not that obvious, but once above 24fps, it is totally smooth.

[TomBeevers2000]

RE: FPS cap

Yes apparently over 24 and you don't notice it. I've hit 31 before :-D.

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Tom Beevers

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[jackqu7]

RE: FPS cap

I have to disagree with that. In non-capped games where you can hit upwards of 60-100fps you notice it. However it's kind of like a bonus whereas anything lower than 15-20 is nasty.

[Stooopid_person]

RE: FPS cap

>Yes apparently over 24 and you don't notice it. I've hit 31
>before :-D.

I've also hit 31 with my Win98 on one of the LU routes. But never 32.

[TomBeevers2000]

RE: FPS cap

I wonder if Mackoy uncapped it.......

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Tom Beevers

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[smace]

RE: FPS cap

\are the upper end frame rates real. I ask, because up until now, I have been running on a lower end machine. I would get lower reported frame rates of 5 fps when I know they were lower. The real rates were often 1 or 2 fps on some routes. \with the newer machine I get a constant 21 reported, or 30 running media player, but I do not really notice a difference. Is the number shown real or just the best BVE can show.