Cod4 smoke lag

[badsubby]

Hi,
I get a smooth fps of 80+ in COD4 @ 1440x900, all high, 2xAA but when I enter smoke it drops down to like 25-30 and lags a lot. Any ideas?

PC Specs:
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz
4gb ram
750gb hd
8800gt 512mb
Driver: 180 (something like that, the newest one)
Vista

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

Smoke causes FPS drop anyway. You can try tweaking FPS settings with console commands, if you havent done that. You can also turn off AA and smooth smoke edges in the options.

Those may help some.

Crunch

[badsubby]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

Smoke causes FPS drop anyway. You can try tweaking FPS settings with console commands, if you havent done that. You can also turn off AA and smooth smoke edges in the options.

Those may help some.

Crunch

Thanks bud. I'll check it out.

[Wizrdwarts]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

Turning smooth smoke edges helps a lot. You won't really notice unless you actually try and see the difference.

[JoMaMaz]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

Turning smooth smoke edges helps a lot. You won't really notice unless you actually try and see the difference.

^QFT

But smoke always sucks in games for your fps.

[imported_Recon]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

You can try tweaking FPS settings with console commands, if you havent done that.

what commands could i use to sort this out or try to?

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

what commands could i use to sort this out or try to?

r_dof_enable 0 (Disables depth of field)
com_maxfps 125 (Increases the FPS limit)
snaps 30 (Dont know if this works in WaW, in CoD4 it helped me a lot. Has to do with server information)
cl_maxpackets 100
sm_enable 0 (Turns off some shadowing)

You have to play with these a bit and see what works best for you. It depends on your PC, video card, and internet connection.

Crunch

[imported_Recon]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

ok, thanks mate, i'll try these out :)

[Wizrdwarts]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

r_dof_enable 0 (Disables depth of field)
com_maxfps 125 (Increases the FPS limit)
snaps 30 (Dont know if this works in WaW, in CoD4 it helped me a lot. Has to do with server information)
cl_maxpackets 100
sm_enable 0 (Turns off some shadowing)

You have to play with these a bit and see what works best for you. It depends on your PC, video card, and internet connection.

Crunch

Depth of field is in the options I think.

Try draw_decals 0 or something like that, it makes the map look cleaner too if you like it that way.

[imported_Whiskey]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

Depth of field is in the options I think.

In COD4, that's correct, it is right there in the menu options. It was removed in COD:WW, so I think a lot of us got used to automatically thinking about having to adjust that in the console/config.

Try draw_decals 0 or something like that, it makes the map look cleaner too if you like it that way.

This will improve frame-rate, but be aware that a lot of servers will kick for having decals set to 0, so use it at your own risk.

[U83R_1337]

Re: Cod4 smoke lag

I used to have same problem with my XFX8800GTS EXTREME 320meg, i upgraded to a SAPPHIRE 4870GDDR5 512meg and get no slow down what so ever certain parts of the maps i can get over 600fps.got some screenys somewhere on my other drive.