by Rachael » Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:45 pm
Moved to Tech Issues, because this is one of those "Works Fine For Me" (tm) issues.
There are three major things that can cause random drops in FPS: Background applications, data retrieval, and the mods in play. All of these can be controlled by you.
Data retrieval is a simple issue - if you have your data on a permanent storage, it may be too slow for GZDoom's needs. Try putting your mods on a flash stick or some other solid state device and see if it improves performance. If not, and the mod is small enough, you can create a ramdisk (easily done with a tool like
imdisk) and load your mods into a drive that is stored in RAM. Keep in mind that RAM drives are volatile and the contents must be saved if you don't want to lose them. (For doing simple things like pre-loading your mods though you should be fine, just wipe or unmount the drive when you're done) This will not help if the mod is compressed with solid-block compression though (like 7zip).
The background applications is another pretty serious and quite underestimated issues that GZDoom can do nothing about. For that, you really have to watch what's taking your system's resources. Things like Discord, Firefox, Chrome, Twitch, any "apps", even if you think they do nothing, they contribute to resource consumption on your system. Even worse - there's also things like viruses, spyware, and other sorts of malware that can contribute to resource usage too - and these will also slow GZDoom down.
Furthermore, another issue that causes frequent slow downs is badly programmed mods. There are numerous gore mods out there (some of which have gotten extremely popular) that choke the CPU extremely quickly on GZDoom due to inefficient use of resources and general messy programming, to the point where even a supercomputer won't be able to handle it. And again - that's not a fault of GZDoom - but of the author who created the mod. I'll note that nowhere in this thread have you listed the mods you have loaded, instead just re-describing the same issue over and over again.
It's easy to throw the blame on GZDoom, but there's too many reasons that the problem could be on your end, as well.
As I said - it works fine for me - and it works fine for most people. The problem is clearly your setup. You will have to try and find whatever is causing a bottle necking in your system, and clear it. Make sure you don't have any malware and that you aren't running anything in the background, and try running with less (if even any) mods.
Moved to Tech Issues, because this is one of those "Works Fine For Me" (tm) issues.
There are three major things that can cause random drops in FPS: Background applications, data retrieval, and the mods in play. All of these can be controlled by you.
Data retrieval is a simple issue - if you have your data on a permanent storage, it may be too slow for GZDoom's needs. Try putting your mods on a flash stick or some other solid state device and see if it improves performance. If not, and the mod is small enough, you can create a ramdisk (easily done with a tool like [url=http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/]imdisk[/url]) and load your mods into a drive that is stored in RAM. Keep in mind that RAM drives are volatile and the contents must be saved if you don't want to lose them. (For doing simple things like pre-loading your mods though you should be fine, just wipe or unmount the drive when you're done) This will not help if the mod is compressed with solid-block compression though (like 7zip).
The background applications is another pretty serious and quite underestimated issues that GZDoom can do nothing about. For that, you really have to watch what's taking your system's resources. Things like Discord, Firefox, Chrome, Twitch, any "apps", even if you think they do nothing, they contribute to resource consumption on your system. Even worse - there's also things like viruses, spyware, and other sorts of malware that can contribute to resource usage too - and these will also slow GZDoom down.
Furthermore, another issue that causes frequent slow downs is badly programmed mods. There are numerous gore mods out there (some of which have gotten extremely popular) that choke the CPU extremely quickly on GZDoom due to inefficient use of resources and general messy programming, to the point where even a supercomputer won't be able to handle it. And again - that's not a fault of GZDoom - but of the author who created the mod. I'll note that nowhere in this thread have you listed the mods you have loaded, instead just re-describing the same issue over and over again.
It's easy to throw the blame on GZDoom, but there's too many reasons that the problem could be on your end, as well.
As I said - it works fine for me - and it works fine for most people. The problem is clearly your setup. You will have to try and find whatever is causing a bottle necking in your system, and clear it. Make sure you don't have any malware and that you aren't running anything in the background, and try running with less (if even any) mods.