-5 simspeed on 5v5 maps

I can vouch for Tass having a pretty horrible sim speed. The wierd thing was it would keep changing. from -5 to 0 to -4 etc. It also might be worth mentioning that we were playing on the beta patch.

Are you sure there is nothing going on in the background such as antivirus updating etc... We had someone that was doing this and reformatting his PC fixed it, so it was to do with stuff in the background.

Go through and turn off all unnecessary processes, check for spyware and all the usual stuff, then see if it keeps happening.

Check your CPU temperature as well.

CPU temp is fine and everything is turned off, even went through msconfig and turned off all that shit.

Damn i hate ambiguous problems like that. God knows we've all had them. Anyway, good luck on a solution.

Strange, have you tried setting core affinity to 1?   What OS are you running, do you have the AMD dual core patch - not sure if you need it these days.

If it's jumping from 0 to -5 back and forth this really points to some background task i.m.o.

I assume you have tried the /nosound thing as well

as Sheezwack has said; AMD's dual core optimiser would be a very good thing to install if you haven't yet updated to SP2 (and shame on you if you haven't).

that said, it's useless for Vista as Vista already supports proper multi-core CPUs.

Ahh okay that's what I wasn't sure of - so if you have SP2 it is installed automatically or something?

Actually I just thought of something else, if you have more than 1 hard drive, try and move your installation of demigod to a different one (preferrably a different HD and not just a different partition).  You could be having i/o issues for whatever reason.

Its not switching from 0 to -5 it was just -5 before i installed the new video driver for the 8800gt 512. I have played the 4v4 maps and was gettin glike +5-6 sim speed.

After i installed the new video driver my sim speed onthe 5v5 maps went to +4, but i thought that was still pretty low for the start of a 5v5 game.

I only have one HDD, i have sp3 for windows xp, and i have the amd dual core optimizer.. though i havent updated either of those in quite some time, would that make a difference? (comma comma comma makes a sentence lol)

I was also on the beta patch when this happened so.. they might have been trying some new code with it or something.

i have not tried the /nosound thing what does that do

This game seems to have alot of weird bugs, I slightly overclocked my vid card  and my fps literally went from 5 to 50 on the brothers map.  It only had such a huge increase on this game (all other games I play had no noticable increase in frames)

my card is an ati radeon hd 3870

long shot but I guess you could give it a try along with the /nosound.

i got e8500 3gigs ram 8800vcard and can play 5v5 with np sim is round 4 or 5 though

You graphics card will not affect your sim speed. It is entirely CPU dependent. I'm on a 2.6 i7 and I will routenly drop to +4-5 at the end of a 5v5 (guesstimate a 20+ minute game amount of units). -5 sounds a lot o' bit low, however. I would guess you should be hovering around +1 for a 5v5. Also, if this game is suffering the same sim problems as SupCom was (same engine), you may see some increase by increasing memory amount. Another trick may be to increase the affinity setting for the game to insure that it takes precedence. 

Why did i get a +9 simspeed when i updated my vid driver, and thats all i did? What is increasing the affinity setting?

If you press crt_alt_del and you go to the processes tab and right click on a process you can set the affinity (which is what core of your CPU you are designating for that particular process to use). Try it. Switch your Demigod process to affinity 0... this should make that core, and only that core focus on that process.

ok thanks, give me karma!

ok i did that and it maxed out my first core, isnt that bad?

yeah, you don't want to max your core. I meant make sure it is checked across all available cores. Sorry, I should have specified that. Another option is to change the priority of the game (in the same menu where you can alter affinity). I'm not sure why you would have seen a sim speed increase with new video drivers unless you CPU was not having to do something for the GPU after the update (I'm not quite that technical  ). I do know that sim speed is CPU dependent though, as I stated above. You FPS is mostly your GPU (though CPU is still involved in that too), but the two are not the same. I would be curious, if you have Forged Alliance, what scores you get on its built in benchmark.

That's just plain wrong .

Yah i think i have a shortcut for the supcom test ill try it.

eh its the old one, but i think i remember getting 15-17k somewhere in there

How so? Your sim speed is a measure of calculations. While I can see communication with the GPU coming into play to some extent, how else is it involved in sim speed?

it's a complicated process (requires a bit of knowledge of how a piece of software talks to a piece of hardware), but you can test it by putting a massive CPU with a tiny graphics card, taking down some data, swapping the tiny card for a dirty-great one and taking some more data.

generally speaking, the change in sim speed from your graphics card will be only minor.