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Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 1:12 pm
by Franc[e]sco
Hey guys, so I've been developing a prototype of my first love game and I ran into fps issues on NVidia cards. I sent my game to friends to see if it ran fine on windows (I'm on linux) it runs fine for most of them, but some people wiith NVidia cards had some fps issues.

Let me exaplain the problem. Normally, my game gets 60+ fps (up to 1k)
On the gfx 260 and on the geforce 5500 it gets like 2-4 fps even on extremely good computers (like gfx 260 + i7 CPU) and I have no idea why. Also, the guy with the geforce 5500 can run Minecraft just fine (which also uses opengl). Could it be some issue with how love handles opengl or something?

Here's the prototype of my game --> Download
(The loading might take a few seconds because the maps are randomly generated)

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 2:01 pm
by Lafolie
I would test this for you since I have an NVIDIA card and a decent CPU but you only posted a Windows binary, which I cannot run. :(

EDIT: I tried renaming the file to a .love and it worked. I get a constant 60fps.

Macbook Pro 5, 1
2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM
NVIDIA 9400M

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:09 pm
by Taehl
It runs at a solid 60 FPS for me. Nice procedural caves, but you should really make the Esc button give a menu, or at least close the game.

Win7 Pro x64
nVidia GTS 260
AMD Athlon x2 6000+
4 gigs of RAM

Since I have the same card and OS as your friend with the problem, I don't think either of those is to blame. Ensure your friend has the latest drivers, and doesn't have any infections slowing their computer down.

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 10:56 pm
by Franc[e]sco
Taehl wrote:It runs at a solid 60 FPS for me. Nice procedural caves, but you should really make the Esc button give a menu, or at least close the game.

Win7 Pro x64
nVidia GTS 260
AMD Athlon x2 6000+
4 gigs of RAM

Since I have the same card and OS as your friend with the problem, I don't think either of those is to blame. Ensure your friend has the latest drivers, and doesn't have any infections slowing their computer down.
yeah, it was a very early prototype, I'll have a playable prototype released soon. Anyways, I'm quite sure at least one of my friends has the latest drivers because he can run stuff like crysis just fine with decent fps. It's a pretty random and weird issue :S

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 1:24 am
by ishkabible
Windows Vista Basic 64-bit
2 nVidia 9800gtx+ in SLI made be BFG factory overclocked
AMD Phenom x4 9600 2.3 ghz factory, over clocked to 2.5 ghz
4 gigs of DDR2 1066 crosshair

it runs between 60 and 61 fps on my computer. the only game i give my computer an excuse to run badly on is Crysis :P and not warhead either, just the first one.

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 4:56 pm
by Franc[e]sco
Ok here's more info on the problem.

Yesterday the game was working fine on a nvidia card. Today it randomly started giving the same problem for no reason and I can't figure out why the problem randomly appears o_0

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:53 am
by Taehl
Sounds like you may have a mandelbug in your code somewhere, which takes up a massive amount of resources when triggered.

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 6:32 pm
by TsT
Also got the problem (2 FPS) under linux with nVidia NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M]

EDIT: typo fix

Re: Weird FPS problems with NVidia cards

Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 12:30 pm
by Lap
Flat 60 almost all the time on a nVidia 560Ti.