/showfps reporting wrong figures ; or so it seems to me
By
KianaZero,
Posted on: 2011-04-02 09:58 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
It's possible that the FPS is lagging behind in its reporting.
It happens to me when I get some serious hiccups, the game will do a 1 second of lag that stops everything, and my fps counter won't register it.
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I get these sort of hiccups too (HDD related?) ; the specific slowdowns I'm talking about here are a fair bit longer, lasting minutes. I assume the counter couldn't lag behind that far, could it?
Not a big deal either way, just curiosity. Thanks. 
Try /graphfps 7 to see if it can show where your bottlenecks are.
Just tried this command ; whenever I get red spikes, they show on all 3 lines (GPU, CPU, SWAP), identical ones or almost so.
I don't know if this is normal, but the sky looked weird when I used the command.
Sounds like it is loading stuff from the HD when it stalls (red marks).
Don't know why your sky would look different though.
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Sounds like it is loading stuff from the HD when it stalls (red marks).
Don't know why your sky would look different though. |
I've been playing on my laptop for a few days and sometimes I get drastic slowdowns. I'm not too concerned about that because, well, it's a laptop, and CoH is power hungry.
What surprises me is when I use /showfps 1, my framerate is shown at being in the 40-60 range (capped by vsync). Casual observation of the screen can tell I'm most likely in the single digits, at most maybe 12-15 FPS. These slowdowns are periodical, sometimes I'm actually at 60 FPS.
I then started up FRAPS to monitor FPS, strangely it seems the /showfps command ingame starts to "behave", showing the correct values. Sure enough it's about 13-18 FPS, close to what I thought (although I was a bit more pessimistic).
I'm not really interested in fixing my slowdowns or anything like that, rather I'm curious to see if anyone else experienced the /showfps ingame command reporting "incorrect" numbers, what could cause that, etc..