Frame rate slow down

2004-12-22 12:08:49 am

Hey just wondering if any1 else has noticed a bit of slowdown now and then in metriod prime 2....its only happend to me a handful of times but its really supprising since metriod prime had no slowdown at all.

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Syl

2004-12-22 12:36:36 am

Quote from gai_sensei:

Hey just wondering if any1 else has noticed a bit of slowdown now and then in metriod prime 2....its only happend to me a handful of times but its really supprising since metriod prime had no slowdown at all.

Woah, first things first... Use a little bit better grammar and spelling. And welcome to the m2k2 forums.

Secondly.

Yeah, I saw some slowdown in prime 2, but, I also knew ways to make the original prime stutter a bit. Prime 2 pumped more poly's and had higher quality textures, so, its understandable that it stutters at times.

The game is running at an amazing 60fps as it is.

Juggernaut

2004-12-22 12:37:28 am

I have barely experienced any slow down. The only times I've had a drop in frame rate is:

1) When I suck in a lot of health spheres/missle refill thingies... (Yah totally wrong terminology there.)

2) During a four-player game, there's a noticeable lag.

gai_sensei

2004-12-22 01:09:53 am

Hehe, sorry. Too much net chatting does that to spelling and grammar :P Anyways, thank you for the reply...I thought it was just me as most reviews claim no slowdown what so ever...hehe liars :P

Also, when I experienced slowdown it was while super-bombing a door open, and trying to walkthrough it while getting attacked by two of those thunder lizard thingies...so given the amount of particle effects going on I guess it isn’t so surprising that the frame rate bogged down a bit.

ShadowJedi

2004-12-22 02:24:46 am

I've had a total of one slowdown myself, and although I don't remember exactly where it was, I remember it had something to do with Charged Dark Beam and lots of small enemies. And that lasted nearly a second. Rolling Eyes

Snytbaggen

2004-12-22 02:31:02 am

I had a slowdown too, that was when I sucked in a LOT of energy/missiles refilles.

EDIT:Or maybe that was in Prime 1? Rolling Eyes

Prime Hunter

2004-12-22 08:19:54 am

Quote from Snytbaggen:

I had a slowdown too, that was when I sucked in a LOT of energy/missiles refilles.

EDIT:Or maybe that was in Prime 1? Rolling Eyes

I've had that happen too, so I guess it is Echoes. The only other time that the game "slows down" is when I skip some of the cutscenes and the game has to catch up or something: I get a few seconds of a blank screen sometimes before the game comes back.

skynes

2004-12-22 01:44:12 pm

There was one time I skipped the beginning of the elevator sequence, then the sequence didn't show and the screen was black with sound effects until the last sequence of the elevator landing and being locked in place showed... :S

theabominable

2004-12-22 01:55:09 pm

I've had one experience with slowdown in prime 1 with thardus, when he fired the rocks, but not so far in this game

Izo

2004-12-22 03:31:04 pm

soaking through

I got some very noticeable framerate slowdown from a Rezbit today (no, it wasn't the crash thing), but there's another problem I get repeatedly when coming back from the map/menu, which I have to do a lot. There's a pause of 1-2 seconds in which the game effectively freezes - ie. the sound, the controls, and the graphics all seize up. It has never been permanent, but it's starting to get on my nerves. Anyone else had this problem?

carnivore

2004-12-22 04:28:23 pm

yea i get it too but i'm pretty sure its the game reloading everything.