Feral Heart

so i got a little update on seeing if is possible:
firstly, i can't find the specific version of the Ogre SDK (1.7.2, mingW libs) used ANYWHERE on the internet, aside from blog posts that mention it;
I also can't determine the version of MingW used;
D3D9 and openGL are hard-coded accepted settings in ogre.cfg;
this is all assuming a newer d3dXX implementation would make a difference (i don't think it will, thinking back...);
you're more or else stuck with the engine bottleneck unfortunately.

something to read and consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
http://www.visual-experiments.com/2010/04/26/cuda-integration-with-ogre3d/

CUDA probably wasn't utilised at all when setting up the engine for FeralHeart (it was still somewhat new, probably an after thought, et cetra). it would further confirm the engine (or at least how it is used) has the bottleneck and nothing else. it certainly would explain why lagging uses less resources. it's a shame, because that hardware sure is ridiculous.

CUDA Gpus can run OpenGL too...there are performnance loses but its not as dramatick..as this. Now that NVIDIA Gameworks is officialy open source it would be kinda a good idea to start playing arround with it.... this game would definitely benefit from it.

Youre basically saying that the game would have to be completely recoded and basically all what would stay is just the name of the game... I also had the idea of making two clients..one for people who have better computing power and for people with Windows98 Machines so a ultracompatible client and a optimized or a fancier and more detailed version. It would require a lot of time to do it but since DX11 is the standard today and NVIDIA Gameworks has a lot of fancy features (like NVIDIA Fur Works which is definitely amazing and it would be a beatyfull adition to the game) it would be definitely easyer than two years back for example. Also framerate results would be way better and we could have higher quiality textures more detailed stuff and such. Imagining the game like that makes me think why someone didnt tryed it yet since it would look amazing.

yeah the "Game Options & Ideas" is a good idea..ill try to do something then there... BTW the graphics cardim using is the MSI GTX1080... its invidia 10th generation card. compraed to a 970 its 2 and a half times faster so it is 4K 60FPS capable card also with VR support so its not a toaster....it cost 750euros for me so its definitely not the cheapest GPU on the market xD the processor is tho old but with the overclocks i made its definitely a lot more then enough with its "8 cores". Thats why im just telling this here because its kinda weird that with more than enought hardware im getting poor framerates.

id rather say its just a discussion. I wanted to keep this a discussion like about what are the problems what could be a potential fix. The issue im talking about isnt something that cant be fixed just with little things. I wanted to keep this as a conversation about why is it that way and what could be done with it.

So i was playing this game for quite a time and clearly im having a kinda ratherinteresting results like FPS stuff and a lot..lot of lags....

In the main lobby (the one you go in the cave in "Lonely Cave" ) looking at the spawn point filled with playrs looks like a slideshow xD. M hardware config is quite a bit overkill...AMD FX-8350(4.7Ghz) tested with FX4300 at 5Ghz same results i used 16GB of ram (2400Mhz) and a frekin GTX1080. I wonder if its the API (DX10..i mean...joke right? OpenGL is kinda okay but no matter what i choose same thing). Its kinda flustrating getting 10FPs looking at the players messing arround or even just being there and its lagging and im not seeing any "weak hardware" signs. CPU load decreases and GPU...well the GPU is utlised just like on desktop. another fun thing is that NVIDIA made theyr GameWorks opensource...finally