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Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 22:00
by bulletrulz
The frame rate I am getting in minetest 0.4.9 is unplayable. Its probaly because I am playing on a netbook is there anyway to help fix this.
I am running elemantary os
I have 1 gb of ram
1.6ghz dual core

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 22:54
by BrandonReese
Make sure shaders are off. You can also disable smooth lighting, mip-mapping and the filters to help improve performance.

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 06:48
by ZachyGames
BrandonReese wrote:Make sure shaders are off. You can also disable smooth lighting, mip-mapping and the filters to help improve performance.


Also the 3d clouds off too!

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 07:43
by Calinou
Play in fullscreen:

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fullscreen = 1
screenW = 1024
screenH = 600


There's probably not much to do about this, since you're on a netbook, which is clearly not intended for demanding applications.

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 07:53
by Rhys
Go either to this link - viewtopic.php?id=7879
Or go to this link - viewtopic.php?id=1825

And put those settings into 'minetest.conf'

Can't find 'minetest.conf'? Follow these steps - <minetest_directory> --> 'minetest.conf'

Don't enter the 'minetest.conf' EXAMPLE file, that's just for 'minetest.conf' help. Go into the file named minetest
and it's type of file should be .conf

Hope this helps! ;)

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 08:30
by mauvebic
bulletrulz wrote:The frame rate I am getting in minetest 0.4.9 is unplayable. Its probaly because I am playing on a netbook is there anyway to help fix this.
I am running elemantary os
I have 1 gb of ram
1.6ghz dual core

Mine has the same specs (running crunchbang), and I bought it 2.5 years ago :p MT never played well on the netbook, the trackpad was too sensitive, and there were all sorts of visual artifacts :/

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:53
by Hybrid Dog
mauvebic wrote:
bulletrulz wrote:The frame rate I am getting in minetest 0.4.9 is unplayable. Its probaly because I am playing on a netbook is there anyway to help fix this.
I am running elemantary os
I have 1 gb of ram
1.6ghz dual core

Mine has the same specs (running crunchbang), and I bought it 2.5 years ago :p MT never played well on the netbook, the trackpad was too sensitive, and there were all sorts of visual artifacts :/

These ones, too?
Image

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 14:37
by Krock
bulletrulz wrote:The frame rate I am getting in minetest 0.4.9 is unplayable. Its probaly because I am playing on a netbook is there anyway to help fix this.
I am running elemantary os
I have 1 gb of ram
1.6ghz dual core

Generally, the frame rate bases on the graphic card. Not-very-good graphic cards can not provide all features which MT offers.

@Hybrid Dog: That looks _very_ interesting.

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 16:26
by Hybrid Dog
Krock wrote:That looks _very_ interesting.

For me it looks usual.

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 17:46
by bulletrulz
Thank you everyone for the help. Minetest used to play very well on this netbook, I think minetest has just evolved alot. Nevertheless I will try all the suggestions mentioned by you guys.

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 17:55
by bulletrulz
BrandonReese wrote:Make sure shaders are off. You can also disable smooth lighting, mip-mapping and the filters to help improve performance.

Thank you very much turning the shaders off. Allowed me to actully be able to play :D

Re: Minetest Frame Rate

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 21:40
by gsmanners
What can also help is this in your conf file:

viewing_range_nodes_max = 80


Playing around with that value improves my frame rate very significantly.