showing fps!
 

hey guys!
i know i have already seen the answer in some other thread.but i just cannot find it anymore.
how can i show the fps i have.i know i have to open the info windows with alt and left click of the mouse,if i remember correctly.but what to do then??
i want to see the fps, to see performance differences resulting when i make changes to my conf.ini file or in the video settings in the game.thx in advance.

You need to open the console (find a key in controls, for that)...then type fps START SHOW

If you want repeatable framerate averages for direct comparison then make a track and replay it under your differing conditions whilst recording the framerate with the program Fraps.

thx Tvrdi!and how do i get rid of it again?

fps STOP SHOW

well i tried that by guessing, but it somehow didnt work.may i mistyped it.ill try again.

"fps START SHOW" and "fps STOP HIDE" is the correct commands. Case sensitive.

Also you can add console input and output to the chat window. Then you can chose console as recipient and type in the commands :)

Raggs could you elaborate on how you add console input and output to the chat window.

Thanks

Yeah, right. Sorry.

And if you are reaaaly lazy... ;-)



Are you not bored typing fps SHOW START every time?

I realised we have many new members who are not able to sing the two pages of conf.ini by heart (shame!) so you may find this of use:

In the same directory as the conf.ini (the famous MyDocuments/ etc etc...)
Find the file RCU
Open it with the text editor
at the bottom add following lines of text:


@a aa fps SHOW START

@a ab fps HIDE STOP

aa



save and close

From now on, if during the game you decide to start the fps display, press Shif-TAB, type aa press enter, exit with Shift-TAB. The fps measurement will appear on your screen.
To remove it, repeat the procedure typing ab
The last line aa in the RCU file spares you from all the work, with it every time you start the game you have thefps measurement displayed automaticaly (you can remove it of course if you do not want this).


Since I have this strange feeling that we will spend the next months talking fps, it may prove a little handy ;-)


Happy Flying (ehem, Testing...)

Thanks very much for that info.. will give that a go..

ALT+CLICK on the chat window and click "customize".

From the right window move Console input to the middle window. If you want output to do the same. Be warned that console output will clutter the window with lot's of information during play and it's not really needed.
Click save when done!

Now a couple of more tips:
To move the window set Title to visible. Set it back to hidden when it's placed where you want it!

Make your chat window transparent and have text disappear:

In the middle window click on "window". you will see options coming up in the left screen.

For transparent screen set inactive alpha BG to 0

To make text disappear after awhile change History to 40 and timeout [sec] to 30.

Keep border as "visible" if you want to be able to re-size window.

Also to remove the clock click on system time in the middle window and hide local and zulu time in the left window!

Remember to save :)

This is my settings for the chat window and you can see the transparent chat window. Not cluttering the screen:)

http://gethome.no/raggz/shot_20110406_154423.jpg


Here are my settings for the confuser.ini. Sets the controls lower right corner, Chat window lower left corner, Voice window upper middle with 3 lines only, Secondary control window middle left side.
This is for 1920x1200 resolution!!!


[ChatWindow]
0:-1=-posSize '0.001 0.809 0.246 0.188' -titleStr Chat/info/console -border -alpha 130 -ualpha 0 -vscroll -wrap -history 40 -timeout 30
0:65536=0
0:393216=-fnt 0 -clr 54 -al 0 -tf 1 -sz 0 -sl 0
0:3=-font 0
0:131072=0
0:1=-font 0
0:6=-font 0
1:-1=-posSize '0.000 0.668 0.181 0.145' -titleStr "Secondary Controls" -alpha 130 -ualpha 0 -history 10 -timeout 15
1:5=-font 0
1:4=-font 0
1:7=-font 0
2:-1=-posSize '0.889 0.888 0.107 0.104' -titleStr "Motor Controls" -border -alpha 130 -ualpha 0 -wrap -history 100
2:262144=-lay 1 -fnt 0 -clr 0
3:-1=-posSize '0.366 0.000 0.266 0.070' -titleStr Voice -border -alpha 130 -ualpha 0 -wrap -history 40 -timeout 30
3:2=-font 0
4:-1=-posSize '0.171 0.323 0.687 0.352' -titleStr NetStats -title -border -alpha 50 -ualpha 0 -custom
4:-2=-font 3 -color 139 -columnWidth '0.100 0.183 0.322 0.144 0.093 0.081' -columnSort 2

Thank you! Good 411.l

Speaking of Fraps, I have the damndest problem.
It seems to be running in the backround somewhere and nothing I do can disable it. I still have the little fps counter in the corner of my screen, even though I have deleted fraps through the control panel, and even deleted it in the registry. I manually removed the fraps folder as well, just in case.

Yet the bloody program refuses to die.