Arcane Dimensios v1.81 - Poor performance

Quake Quake Maps
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I’ve played the entirety of AD with vkQuake, and it runs so much better for me than the other engine ports.
A few days ago, I had to RMA my 5700XT, so I’m using my backup computer with the 4770k @ 4.3Ghz and an EVGA 980ti. I’m noticing that I can’t maintain 144FPS (144hz Monitor) on this computer, and especially on ad_tears Tears of the False God, I’m seeing drops down to 80s, which might not sound that bad for people on 60hz displays, but on a high refresh monitor, it feels like dog shit. Especially because the 980ti does not support freesync (fuck you nvidia).
In foggybottom, I was getting drops to 80s, switching to vkquake I get 144 fps here:
https://i.imgur.com/LPMtIVl.png

But in ad_tears at this location it dips and fluctuates to low 80s.
https://i.imgur.com/Kz0YM1x.png

Was VIS done for these new maps or is the open nature of this map the cause of this?

2

Yep, ad_tears just runs like that. Of course they were VISed, but void maps like that often have lower performance due to most of the map not being culled out when you’re in the open. I tried ad_tears on a number of PCs and source ports to test FPS, they all drop below 100 in parts.

3

Damn, I guess I’ll wait to play this one when I get my 5700XT back from Gigabyte, at least then I can take advantage of freesync and not notice the drops as much.

4

You could try FTE, it had some optimizations to run TerShib2 (unVISed?).
See https://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=61822&start=31.

5

Engines I tried:

Darkplaces
Darkplaces-sdl
DirectQ
ezquake
fteqw64
mark_v
quakespasm
quakespasm-sdl2 (compiled myself)
quakespasm-sdl12 (whatever this is)
vkquake

none of them can get better fps than vkquake.

6

Note that you need to set some cvars to get any benefit from what I assume is some alt. culling method in FTE.

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Also, my heapsize is set to 1024000 and vkquake shows 1000MB heapsize in the console.
zone is set to 8192.
EDIT: yeah, I checked that site, and added those commands:

r_temporalscenecache 1
sv_autooffload 1
gl_pbolightmaps 1
sv_savefmt 1
sv_protocol 999
sv_maxvelocity 8000
gl_farclip 524288

Exact same fps.

8

Maybe you don’t want to hear this but you could try lowering your resolution or turning down antialiasing and other graphical extras.

9

Tried that.
AA makes 0 difference from 0xAA to 8xAA. And this is Quake, I like the old school look, so using the basics only, no special graphical effects.
Resolution also makes 0 difference, get the same FPS at 640x480.

0xAA - 1920x1080
https://i.imgur.com/pqYm9AR.png

2xAA - 1920x1080
https://i.imgur.com/x4MIPPk.png

8xAA - 1920x1080
https://i.imgur.com/35ujlIM.png

8xAA - 640x480
https://i.imgur.com/THyePyh.png

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In case anybody is wondering, with the latest vkQuake release v1.11.0, I now get great performance on this map. Lowest I’ve seen was 250fps up to 300 fps (my current cap).

https://i.imgur.com/20xpBJi.png