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Message ID: 1647
Date: Wed Sep 29 16:02:00 BST 1999
Author: Moe Drippins
Subject: RE: Rez changed


Kevin Dailey writes:
> From: Kevin Dailey <Kevin_Dailey@...>
>
> Jaxim said:
>
> "it takes up system resources to keep a corpse in the game. Therefor it
> 1
> corpse might not be too bad... but a lot of corpses... yea it adds up ."
>
>
> Saidinn (me) responds:
>
> "Yeah, in Blackburrow last night there were only 22 people running
> around. However, there were 13 corpses on just the first level alone!
> And, even with my two Voodoo2s and a 450Mhz K6-3, framerates were
> sometimes in the teens. Ick.

And yet, oddly enough, my PII-350 with a voodoo 3 handles 45 people
plus corpses in BB no problem.

I've yet to be convinced corpses add any noticeable lag.

How do you gauge FPS in the teens, buy the way; do you have some way
of actually measuring this?

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Frake, Rodcet Nife
Iilii, Xegony