I need someones thoughts on this please.
My video card is a high end card.. Radeon 9700 Pro.
My autoexec.cfg has configured:

set gl_displayrefresh "85"
set gl_ext_swapinterval "0"
set gl_swapinterval "0"
set cl_maxfps "200"

During game play my FPS is a steady 200fps while no one is in the server.  But, in the multiplayer game with others my fps fluctuates up/down and alot of times goes to 40fps.

With the swap intervals set to "1" and displayrefresh set to 85 my fps is 85. My fps still fluctuates when a lot of players are in the screen.  

Can anyone offer some advise on how to maintain a steady fps regardless of the swapinterval setting?

Its gets real annoying to have the game fps slow to a crawl.

I don't have experience with Radeon cards but there are several general things to improve fps.

First of all your fps is going vary depending on where you are on a map, what your charactor is looking at, your connection to the server. I'm sure you've tried playing around with the graphic/texture settings already. You can turn everything down to jack up your fps but it will look butt ugly.

gl_ext_multitexture "1"

How about your desktop display settings?

Vsync off
AA off/low

What OS are you running? Amount of RAM? Processor speed? Type of internet connection?

Most of the time when I'm pinging 110-150 to a server I get 260-480 depending on map, etc, etc. If I start my own server, go into spectator mode, fly to the top of the map and look straight up I've gotten as high as 4800 fps  

Specs:
P4 2.53GHz
Asus P4T533-C
512MB PC800RDRAM @ 1072MHz
Gainward GF4 Ti4600 PowerPack Ultra/750XP Golden Sample
Win XP Pro
DSL

I guess it's very down to what resolution you're playing here - as, with that card, I'd expect you to get 85fps steady even with a lot of action and everything on high details.

Otherwise just try lower gfx options...


My autoexec is available here if you're interested : http://www.tsyrak.com/sof1/Tsyrak-1.0-CFG.zip It's pretty big and commented... Whatever you do, DO check the ReadMe and EDIT the files.

I was using it on a TNT2/750MHZ config. Since I got a Ti-4400 and turned swapinterval ON and put maxfps to 100. I've kept the textures quality that crappy tho cause I'm addicted


Cu -

Thanks guys for your thoughts.

I'm running WinXP Pro w/ AMD 1800+ 512 DDR and ATTBI cable @ 256/1500.  My desktop is 16bit and the game is running 800x600.  

Game bit depth is set to auto.  Funny thing about bit_depth is that if I select 16bit and save, it reverts back to auto.  I really haven't played with the video card setting to isolate it yet.  My textures are set to medium with lighting off and range to off.  No AA.  Video card setting has vertsync OFF by Default.  My game connection is set to 10000 = CABLE.  gl_ext_multitexture = 1

My monitor max res is 85 so that is why displayrefresh is set to 85.  And no, it is not consistant in the game.  FPS varies as well in the game and gets very choppy as the FPS goes down to 40-45 FPS. Like you say you can look into the sky and FPS is 85. Even running around with no action like explosions or gun fire I get 85FPS but as soon as action begins... down it goes.

Oh, and I can set maxfps to 500 and get 500 but iI think a lot of the servers can't handle the bandwidth required here because I get the LAG BOX intermittently but consistant..fluttering if you know what I mean.

I downloaded your cfg zip Tsyrak and will check it out.
Oh, and by the way, no overclocking has been done on CPU or video card..

Thanks and keep me working until I get this resolved.

Hey Tsyrak,

Gave your autoexec a try. Man those graphics settings are ugly!!

I have to reckon they are

also sv_max fps is a locked cvar that servers can set  via their    dedicated.cfg file ..so i would not worry about it