Extremely low performance in MTA

[serzhanja]

Hello, i have EXTREMELY low fps (3-7 f/s) while playing MTA. When i'm in the countryside, it's about 15 fps, when i fly around LS the framerate drops to about 5 and such rate persists even when i move to less poligonal regions. I do not have this problem while playing GTA single-player mode.

I tried changing resolution, but almost no difference between 640x480 and 1280x1024 and the same in windowed mode.

-tried performance tweaks - performance tool that disables almost all effects.

-installed latest drivers available for my system.

-lowered some texture resolutions and sprite resolutions (txd files).

-disabled/enabled AGP texture acceleration (helped before entered cities) and HW sound accel in dxdiag - NO results.

-tried changing graphics options in gta:Sa

Maybe MTA could integrate graphics options menu? How could i fix this problem?

[robhol]

This sounds very odd. Granted, MTA does need more resources than "vanilla" GTA:SA for obvious reasons, but this is ridiculous.

What are your system specs?

[serzhanja]

cpu - p4 2,8 HT

ram - 1024

video - GeForce 8800 GTS 256MB

[robhol]

I'm assuming you've already tried flooring almost all settings like view dist, effect quality and so on, and disabled stuff like antialias?

[serzhanja]

absolutely right! it's very weird since gta:sa runs smoothly 3xAA very high, max drawD, everything maxed out in driver settings, but MTA is showing doubtful performance on lowest settings possible (even driver-specific), even though there are no peds, traffic in MTA and other stuff specific to system-hungry single-player

[madis]

With your specs MTA should run fine enough, as I have all of the specs worst than yours and can run MTA quite smooth when there arent' more than 10 people near me.

Do you have latest DirectX?

You could check the task manager, maybe something (other than MTA, GTA) is eating CPU or RAM?

What OS do you use?

[serzhanja]

yes, i have the latest dX, well, at least the one after year 2005 (when SA was released).

windows is basically fresh, so no extra tasks in taskmon

os is WinXP SP2

i just don't understand how such loaded GTA (peds, cars, everything) runs smooth, but almost empty MTA - crappy

[madis]

You could try to download the latest directx, as MTA is newer than GTA:SA

Here's the download link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... 6652cd92a3

[Gamesnert]

Just a small question: On what servers do you play? Some servers have an extreme load of resources running containing lots of scripts and custom models and such, which might slow down.

[serzhanja]

i play on SAES rpg and RvB, russian play servers, Valhalla, some others i cant recall. Every game runs slow

[jhxp]

Does the same thing occur if you host the server on your pc and join it (eg. by using an option for that in menu)?

Also, are you using latest MTASA version (1.0.3 as of now) ?

[serzhanja]

yeah i have the latest version of MTA, that 103 one.

no, when i'm hosting a game it runs flawless!

[serzhanja]

okay seems i've solved this problem - edited config_DX.ini in mta:sa folder.

what i did:

set SkipShader14=1

SkipShader20=1

EmulateDX81=0

DisableLighting=1

now FPS is about 23 - in most problem areas (LSPD, SF)

stay tuned.

[Goomba]

okay seems i've solved this problem - edited config_DX.ini in mta:sa folder.

what i did:

set SkipShader14=1

SkipShader20=1

EmulateDX81=0

DisableLighting=1

now FPS is about 23 - in most problem areas (LSPD, SF)

stay tuned.

I can't find that config_DX.ini file.

[serzhanja]

that's cos i was trying to load it through 3danalyze.

UPDATE: it was a "placebo" effect only....

[Guest]

Where to find this file?

[Guest]

Where to find this file?