Downloaded and installed the game yesterday, and with everything set up and changing the settings to those recommended in the optimization I still have some pretty bad issues with the game being choppy/laggy. I turned on the lagometer and the FPS meter to see where I was going wrong and turned down my graphics settings way down to try and compensate. It got a little bit better, but still makes it unplayable even with like 3 people in a game.
Would be much better if you provided more details of your issues.
Low frame rate? How many, exactly? 300? or 5? And what fps you would like to have?
What hardware you run? Is it i7? Or PIII 800 MHz? 486DX?
It's pretty common to have performance issues in this game. Many players talked about in chat and on this forums. Just yesterday I was playing mb2 and seen @Pahricida said that his fps is unstable while it's high enough (more than 100, don't remember exact numbers) and better than Fallout 4.
By my own experience, frame rate is hardly depends on what happening on screen and how many players on server.
If you use AIMP, close it before launch game. Actually, you should try to close each and every program are running, then start mb2.
Short version:
I would disable dynamic glowing OP if you have it on. (posted by @BigBossBigTeef).
The game is single threaded and most stuff is done by CPU. So the best you can achieve is to force to use one core per game process - com_affinity 1.
Getting CPU with higher frequency is also an option.
Set value of fx_vfps to something like 100 or lower (1000 is default) to skip some frames with particles and boost the performance. (posted by @ent)
If your computer has a dedicated graphics card, make sure jedi academy is using it. Sometimes especially with laptops with both dedicated gfx and intregrated intel gfx that use integrated for non intensive stuff like browsing this forum and to save battery doing so, it may try to launch jedi academy with the intregrated on.
cg_drawFPS 1 and post fps you are getting, and yes try to disable dynamic glow as this will help performance.
I was testing out how many frames I could get tops and got stuck at 80ish in empty dotf hangar with drops to below 30 during gameplay; on single core mode. I then added all cores and it skyrocketed to 400-500 FPS with a drop to 50 FPS at team spawn and 180-350 during actual gameplay. I still get the odd tiny drops to around 40 sometimes.
I run Win10 on i7-4770K@3,5 GHz, GTX 780.
And the Fallout comment was just me stabbing at F4 since it also increases gameplay speed when going far over 60FPS which is hilariously bad.. like if Sonic used force speed while doing a classic Benny Hill sketch.
I'm glad MB2 doesn't go like this at 300+ FPS:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210H CPU @ 2.90GHz
Video Card 1 Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
Video Card 2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Memory 8.0 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 (build 10586), 64-bit
In an example game with the lagometer on, the FPS shown, and the FPS set at default 85:
It stayed pretty smooth and stuck around 25 to 30 fps, and once joining the game it stuck around the same, occasionally dropping to about 16 or so, with the blue connection bar staying pretty steady, but the green bar below it occasionally showing gaps and going red when the game starts getting choppy. After a few minutes it usually gets to the point where the stopping periods get longer, and then to the point where it's unplayable and doesn't go anywhere so I force close it after a little waiting.
I thought at first it might be a connection issue, which might still be an issue anyway, but I remembered that before changing the settings around to the current point the game was choppy even at the main menu. That's when I started wondering if it was something else.
As an update I did a reinstall and then did as Jorge suggested and made sure that the program was using the Nvidia, and once I turned the usual stuff off and turned recording off the game is much smoother. I still hit some spikes that slow the game down, but the main issue I'm curious about ow is just if there is something I can possibly do about the crashes that happen usually right after some of these spikes.
I'm also curious about models being unable to register causing the game to crash. Is it because of a bad installation?
If it's something to just deal with I can live with it, but if there is something I'm missing (or if you have more tips for a smoother experience) ideas would be appreciated.
I get some pretty bad FPS issues, similar specs to your's.
I think it's just a problem you deal with really.
I get 30fps max and I've tweaked every in-game option I can and it gets no better.
