FPS locked at 90

[=TAO=PowerSlave Profile]

Hey gurus.. I recently bought a new PC and was very happy to see my FPS up around 120 finally. A couple of weeks ago I bought my first wide screen monitor and changed the game resolution to fit it better. I just noticed that now my FPS seems locked around 90. I checked my config, and I have "seta com_maxfps 125" (I may have the syntax slightly wrong from memory?). Did changing my screen resolution mess with my FPS somehow, or is something else going on here?

[Unsobering Profile]

Did you up your resolution? I'm your card could only do 120 fps on something like 1024x768 and you switched to 1600x1200 I would think you'd see some fps drop.

[=TAO=PowerSlave Profile]

Did you up your resolution? I'm your card could only do 120 fps on something like 1024x768 and you switched to 1600x1200 I would think you'd see some fps drop.

Yeah that seemed like a possibility, but I backed it off to where it was before (and even lower) and it still seems locked at 90.

[Paco's Gun Profile]

Go to ecgn and type "com_maxfps" in console... what does it say?

[MAN-AT-ARMS]

Most likely the setting is changed in the wolfconfig_mp.cfg file in your shrubmod folder, but not the one in your Main folder.

The one in your Main folder gets loaded first when you launch the game and since that cvar is a latched cvar, the changed don't immediately take effect when the one in your shrubmod folder loads.

Just make sure the setting is the same in both folders and you'll be fine....i.e copy paste the wolfconfig_mp.cfg file from your shrubmod folder into your Main folder.

Alternatively you can do a /vid_restart after the game loads, but who wants to do that everytime they launch the game...

[=TAO=PowerSlave Profile]

Go to ecgn and type "com_maxfps" in console... what does it say?

Thanks all of you... MAA was right, I had it set to 125 in the Shrubmod folder's config file, but the one in the main folder still had "seta com_maxfps 85".

Prior to copying it to main, I went to ECGN like Paco suggested and got:

"com_maxfps" is: "85" default: "85"
latched: "125"

So... now that it's working, is 125 the right number to have in there? I've heard some work better than others?

Thanks MAA!

[Paco's Gun Profile]

I could go in depth but basically 125 is the optimal setting so long as you get it stable... if your fps drops a lot then you might as well use 76.

I figured that you didn't have it set in your main, 1.4 requires a restart to change fps (except in osp where you can use forcefps). It's a common problem people have.

[=TAO=PowerSlave Profile]

I could go in depth but basically 125 is the optimal setting so long as you get it stable... if your fps drops a lot then you might as well use 76.

It seems pretty stable set at 125. Thanks for the help Paco.

[moeone Profile]

Most likely the setting is changed in the wolfconfig_mp.cfg file in your shrubmod folder, but not the one in your Main folder.

The one in your Main folder gets loaded first when you launch the game and since that cvar is a latched cvar, the changed don't immediately take effect when the one in your shrubmod folder loads.

Just make sure the setting is the same in both folders and you'll be fine....i.e copy paste the wolfconfig_mp.cfg file from your shrubmod folder into your Main folder.

Alternatively you can do a /vid_restart after the game loads, but who wants to do that everytime they launch the game...

Thx for this info, Knew that latched meant that it was locked , but could not figure how to get it unlatched..

[=TAO=PowerSlave Profile]

No problem. Let me know if you need any more help that you wanna give credit to other people for.

Haha ok. When I said "Thanks all of you" I meant you too (and yourself, and you).

[Tun3Lrat Profile]

Just curious wut other cvar's r latched

[Tun3Lrat Profile]

Well, FPS is limited to 125 so, doesn't that make it a cvar??

[Paco's Gun Profile]

It is a cvar, just ignore col_frosty he has down syndrome and likes to make everyone aware of it.

[Tun3Lrat Profile]

I'm so confused...OK wut r other LATCHED wuteverz??

[Martin Profile]

cvars and latched do NOT go together. They are two different things.

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com_maxfps = Cvar_Get( "com_maxfps", "85", CVAR_ARCHIVE | [b]CVAR_LATCH[/b] );

Line 2487, common.c