Myth II Performance

Website · Post by **iron** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:25 pm

Ok ... tried using DirectInput (under control prefs) ?

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:55 pm

Yeah just did that for the keyboard lag, no idea if it helped that but it didnt help the camera.

Website · Post by **iron** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:23 pm

I guess you've tried deleting prefs, starting with a fresh Myth install, trying OpenGL & Software renderers and all that. There's also the "Yield CPU" and "Run as High Priority" options to experiment with in prefs if you haven't already. Oh, and try turning off 3D sound (myth prefs as well).

I'm struggling to think of things to suggest - seems really weird that it worked ok a couple of months ago but not now. I hate Windoze.

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Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:32 pm

Funny thing is that I changed the compatibility mode to windows NT 4.0 and it helps the jerkiness a little bit. Who knows.

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:31 pm

Update*** For no reason at all my camera is mostly fixed now... I did nothing to my computer to cause this it just randomly happened today. Sometimes it gets a little choppy but overall its much better. I have no idea????

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:35 pm

Even bigger update**** It just went bad again after I restarted Myth. What the hell?

CIK · Post by **CIK** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:18 pm

Get build 276 and use the Modern(Windowed Mode) build. Since your running XP this version is probably what you want.

I'm gonna make a guess and say that the lag is probably being caused by something outside of Myth sucking up the CPU like a nice spyware app or two.

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:41 pm

It isn't spyware trust me. Nothing is sucking up the CPU either ive checked that earlier. Where is the modern windowed mode build?

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:44 pm

lalala

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:54 pm

Ok, windowed mode didnt help.

1) There is nothing wrong with my computer it did this on my old p4 as well

2) The camera was perfectly smooth when I randomly loaded Myth to watch a film.

3) When I reloaded Myth after rejoicing on these forums it went right back to the camera being jerky.

4) Everything in Myth is jerky as well. It's easy to tell watching the arrows, their animation is not smooth at all.

5) ?

Industry · Post by **Industry** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:00 am

Sounds like a resource problem to me. Try running whatever they call the System Monitor these days, start up Myth and then switch back to the system monitor to see what's getting maxed out. I mean it really sounds to me like the game is trying to run almost entirely from disk swap space. It runs like that for me when I have like 20 other apps running but just want to blow stuff up a bit.

Pyro · Post by **Pyro** » Sun May 21, 2006 3:27 am

I believe its Task Manager what you are refering to for Windows XP.

Eddaweaver · Post by **Eddaweaver** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:26 am

Pentium 4 you say? I wonder whether this could have anything to do with hyperthreading. I believe that can be turned off in the bios settings?

Cu03 · Post by **Cu03** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:31 am

How can I stop it from using disk swap? That seems like a reasonable theory.

Nitro · Post by **Nitro** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:28 am

I just started playing myth earlier this month after a long time of absense. Am on a p4 with a gf2 (yea its old but ive been away for 2 years now..) and i get terrible fps in games with a lot of projectiles, units etc. And terrible means unplayable such as 20fps.

The oldest computer we have in the house with one of those savage cards still has myth on it and its much smoother than mine.
Any ideas? I hate switching to a laptop

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Myth II Performance