From 2b0e1bad808d9ac0b26bd5ec5d40e8db110eb291 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: esteel
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:47:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added workaround for flickering on intel chips to FAQ
git-svn-id: svn://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz/trunk@4329 f962a42d-fe04-0410-a3ab-8c8b0445ebaa
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Docs/FAQ.aft | 3 +++
Docs/FAQ.html | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Docs/FAQ.aft b/Docs/FAQ.aft
index 153344723..ab07f8446 100644
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@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ This happens when the engine can't load the data*.pk3 file or has trouble to ini
4. the engine could not initialize OpenGL. Please install the latest drivers for your graphic card. You will probably find one for your card there: [intel (http://intel.com)] [ati (http://ati.com)] [nvidia (http://nvidia.com)]
5. your download might be corrupted, please download Nexuiz again
+** When i start Nexuiz my screen is flickering
+This in known to happen on windows with intel grahpic chips and is a bug in the graphics drivers. A workaround is to set |Flip-Policiy| to |blit|. Open the control panel, there should be an icon called |Intel(R) GMA driver| (or something like that), double click it. Click on |3D Settings| to find the screen with that settings.
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** How can I speed up my frame rate?
You can choose predefined performance settings in the |Settings / Video| menu. |Normal| is the default, |Medium| and |Low| run faster while |High|, |Ultra| and |Ultimate| enable more features you might want to test if you have a high end graphic card. Or you can dis/enable single features. The greatest performance boost can be achieved by turning off dynamic lights and shadows in the |Settings / Effects| menu. Bloom is also quite resource intensive. Other fps boots include disabling |Deluxemapping| and |Coronas|. On older graphics cards or on-board/notebook chips with little video ram you can try to lower the texture quality in the |Settings / Video| menu.
Some graphic cards (mostly ATI or quite old cards) run A LOT faster if you disable the |Vertex Buffer Objects| in the |Settings / Video| menu. An other thing that can greatly help on such cards is to disable the |OpenGL 2.0 Shaders|. Having that option enabled is faster on most cards however thats why both are active by default.
diff --git a/Docs/FAQ.html b/Docs/FAQ.html
index 38fc45c39..c5c851367 100644
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@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
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+This in known to happen on windows with intel grahpic chips and is a bug in the graphics drivers. A workaround is to set Flip-Policiy to blit. Open the control panel, there should be an icon called Intel(R) GMA driver (or something like that), double click it. Click on 3D Settings to find the screen with that settings.
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You can choose predefined performance settings in the Settings / Video menu. Normal is the default, Medium and Low run faster while High, Ultra and Ultimate enable more features you might want to test if you have a high end graphic card. Or you can dis/enable single features. The greatest performance boost can be achieved by turning off dynamic lights and shadows in the Settings / Effects menu. Bloom is also quite resource intensive. Other fps boots include disabling Deluxemapping and Coronas. On older graphics cards or on-board/notebook chips with little video ram you can try to lower the texture quality in the Settings / Video menu.
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