main menu and ingame lag

[sid]

Hey,

When I start bzflag (bzflag-2.0.16) I've got huge lags (1 fps) in main menu and in game.
If I press esc in main menu (so no menu, just a picture), I have got 326 fps(works fine), but otherwise, I have one fps, so its impossible to play.

help me pls

thanks,
Sid

[Yrogirg]

So how many fps do you have in game (the actual play) without menu? 1 fps in that case probably means 3D video driver not installed. What's your video card and operating system?

[sid]

my computer:
MS windows XP professional sp3
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core processor 3800+, 336mb RAm, ATI radeon Xpress 1150
in this computer in menu I have got 1 fps, but while im playing its okay, more than 300.


in my laptop same problem, but have 1 fps while im playing
sry for thinking that in this computer I have 1 fps while im playing. (tohught if I have 1 in laptop, I have here too)

and thanks for help

[Cobra_Fast]

You probably got old (or wrong) graphic drivers running, as you say your FPS are only dropping when the menu is active, your driver might not be able to handle the menu overlay over the 3D quickly.
Your laptop might not even have a 3D accelerated graphic card or it's a driver problem, too.

[sid]

so what to do (and forget about the laptop(its a really old one))

[Cobra_Fast]

Check if there are newer drivers for your graphics card available at http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx before buying a better (not necessarily brandnew) graphics card.

[blast]

Also, make sure you have all of the graphics settings turned up. Check in Options > Display Settings. Turn everything (except shadows and lighting, unless you want them - energy saver can also be left off) to the highest setting. Some of the "lower" options are designed for software rendering and may not run fast on modern hardware/drivers.

[macsforme]

When you first launch the game, the console should have a line "OpenGL Driver: " and should say something afterward. What does that line say?

[sid]

I apprichiate your help ppl. Thanks!!

Im not at hoem atm, but I will check those things what you said as soon as I can.

Thanks again,
Sid