- To show your frame rate, type into the console: showfps 1 (to disable, type showfps 0).
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Use the help below to change your settings until you can achieve a minimum frame rate of about 23 to 25 frames
per second.
You may discover that your frame rate is much lower in very large open areas when you can see a long way forward;
this may also happen when there are high numbers of objects in view, or when you kill a VC and your muzzle flash is
visible, for example.
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- First, set your game to run with "high" or "realtime" priority under Windows. The command behind the Vietcong
icon should read:
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c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start "runhigh" /high "c:\~~~\vietcong\vietcong.exe" -addon fistalpha
or
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start "runhigh" /realtime "c:\~~~\vietcong\vietcong.exe" -addon fistalpha
where '~~~' is the pathname to the 'Vietcong' installation folder.
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- Next, use the Vietcong setup utility ("vietcong.exe -setup") to find the best settings for your PC and
graphics card. Try combinations of the following:
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- set the resolution to 800x600
- set triple buffer "off" - triple buffering makes the graphics smoother but can reduce performance
- "Textures in system memory / Fit textures in video memory" may have little effect, but try each setting
anyway. The Vietcong manual says use the first option if your video card has 32Mb or more of RAM
- "Prefer 16 bit textures" (32 bit textures are higher quality but the difference is negligible)
- set the colour to "16 bit" (a last resort - this doesn't make the game look good)
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- Check your graphics card settings using the nVidia or ATI configuration utility:
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- configure for 'performance' rather than 'quality' (you may not notice much difference visually)
- set anti-aliasing off (or choose a lower setting)
- increase the maximum number of pre-rendered frames; this will result in smoother gameplay at low frame rates
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- Use a free utility such as 'Cacheman' to configure your PC for gaming; different profiles can be stored and activated
if you need 'non-gaming' modes. Changes to some settings may require a reboot to activate. Cacheman includes utilities
to recover memory and will also unload unused .dlls from memory. The many download sites include:
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*** More suggestions will be added soon ***
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