17-06-2003 06:56									#1
	Everyone Needs To See This: How To Drastially Improve Frame Rates Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

I got this from a BHG dev on rise of nation heaven.

The first time you start up RoN after a reboot/turn your comp on, close it.

Then start up RoN again and play like normal....... your FPS will be MUCH better for as long as you play-I went from 2-3 two minute plus lockups(fps of 0 or 1) per 10 minutes, to 1 "lockup" per hour(which lasted 1-3 seconds).

Apparently the first time you launch RoN per reboot it judges your system specs..... or something-I dont know, I just know it works, and works so well I was able to put my settings from low to high, without any FPS degredation!

	17-06-2003 08:06									#2
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sounds strange... I wonder if people familiar with windows know anything about this... I'm skepticle.

	17-06-2003 09:07									#3
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I have noticed similar things with my system. It gives me a small FPS boost.

- PTM

	17-06-2003 18:05									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Sava sounds strange... I wonder if people familiar with windows know anything about this... I'm skepticle.

Is that sarcasm about something I dont know about windows? All I know is that it was unplayable on the lowest settings,, now im getting 40-50 FPS constantly with the highest settings!

	18-06-2003 06:42									#5
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I think Sava just wants more details, like an explanation of why it works.

	18-06-2003 07:37									#6
	Re: Everyone Needs To See This: How To Drastially Improve Frame Rates Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by Vesayen I got this from a BHG dev on rise of nation heaven. The first time you start up RoN after a reboot/turn your comp on, close it. Then start up RoN again and play like normal ... without any FPS degredation!

Hya.

Yes! I was doing this at home and it always worked, but I thought it was only on my computer (because, you know, it's alive and it hates me!!!).

When I saw this thread I really really laughed! Now I know that my computer isn't the only living (or unliving) one!

See ya.

	18-06-2003 10:37									#7
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seems to improve my game speed as well, thanks for the tip

	18-06-2003 15:40									#8
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Weird .... but at least something works to improve people's framerates.

	18-06-2003 17:55									#9
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* Skanky Burns imagines the next RoN patch is a batch file

code:
Open(RoN)
Close(RoN)
Open(RoN)

	18-06-2003 18:44									#10
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That means just opening it without starting a game just the main menu?

	18-06-2003 22:49									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns I think Sava just wants more details, like an explanation of why it works.

Exactly... no offense intended Vesayen, but I'm terribly cynical and skepticle about things I hear on an online gaming site.

	20-06-2003 00:25									#12
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I think there is something about this in the bug report threads.

	20-06-2003 01:23									#13
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It's in the readme file as well.

	20-06-2003 05:04									#14
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Anyone care to post it? I'm too lazy.

	20-06-2003 05:09									#15
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quote: Originally posted by HalfLotus It's in the readme file as well.

Please quote the section you are talking about. Mine says nothing about closing the game and then reopening it.

	20-06-2003 05:25									#16
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NVIDIA GeForce: When using some GeForce drivers, you may experience significantly decreased game performance the first time the game is started after the computer has been restarted. If this occurs, exit the game by pressing ALT+F4, and then restart the game. After restarting once, the game should perform as usual until the next time the computer is restarted.

	20-06-2003 06:27									#17
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Does it matter if you exit using ALT-F4, or can you exit via the menu.

Also, do I have to start an actual battle first, or does that not matter?

	20-06-2003 11:02									#18
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but i thought you that
/BTW trust it's always a good thing
to look information about "known video problems"
in game developers site i found it at microsoft's but i guess it's on BHG site aswell.