Hello,

I would like to know if GameStudio is optimized to use the latest Graphics card.

Previously I had an NVIDIO Quadro Fx3500.

I have changed to a new Nvidia Geforce GTX 275 one of the best in the market these days. But in terms of performance i dont see any improvement. my maps have lots of entities.

I am using windows XP pro with a Core2 duo 3ghz and 3GB Ram as well. But change of graphics card shows no improvement on the FPS, though at NVIDIA side they mention 40x performance.

lots of entities with actions assigned? If so, does the actions contain and CPU heavy functions, loops? If not, then I guess conitec should answer that, I'm curious =]

not really. very simple function. there are no actions assigned to the entities. here is a psedo of what i do:

File Contents: entityID, x,y,z, time_stamp.
No. of entities: 2000



Thats all.

Yes, Gamestudio is "optimized for the latest Graphics card". Still, beginners can easily manage to produce a game running with 1 fps no matter how good the graphics card is.

As you can see from the examples, A7 itself has no problems to handle 50,000 or 100,000 entities - but drawing them is up to the graphics card. When you have frame rate problems, first look in the manual for the frame rate hints before you buy a faster card.

@delinkx
Are you using shaders (dynamic lighting) and/or stencil shadows? I've noticed that stencil shadows in particular, KILL my frames per second. I guess I could help alleviate this by using LOD but I have the commercial version not the pro.

@jcl
Do particles count towards your stated "50,000 or 100,000 entities"? Also, how much of a boost in fps can I expect from shadow LOD and accelerated shadows? (on average) And do I absolutely need the pro version to use these features?

Thank you

Particles and entities are different things. Particles normally render faster, but can also be slower when they have a complicated function.

Accelerated shadows are about 3 times faster than normal shadows, and you need the Pro Edition for them. You can find all this in the manual under "PARTICLE" and "shadow_stencil".

Appreciate it.