Post your Config, and ways to optimize OA?

[JESUS SCOUSE]

seeing cheaty screenshots like these makes me unmotivated to work on oa.

Hey please don't. You are getting me worried.
Your work is really appreciated.

[defcon]

well i can understand the use of that setting, some ppl arent as fortunate and need to use them, ppl that use them for an advantage is who you gotta worrie about, which its ugly and most ppl wont do that

[fromhell]

best way to optimize:
scrap up some dough to buy a simple geforce or radeon card not of the MX, FX or '000', '200', '500' variety.
A Geforce2 GTS is enough.

r_detailTextures 0 helps alot of fillrate-sucky cards (which apparently every 'serious' gamer HAS TO LIVE WITH???), does a better job than break-all-the-lighting and gimping the game up.

cg_simpleItems 1 is a very good for processors in the 100-400MHz range as well

cg_draw3dIcons 0 benefits Voodoo-based hardware a lot, and Pentiums.

r_primitives 2 speeds the game up on Radeon-based hardware without sacrificing anything.

[pulchr]

i haven't done any tests to verify this but i guess it should affect the framerate on slow graphic cards.
pick a model that has a low amount of triangles and then use cg_forcemodel "1" to force all the other players/bots to use the same model as you.

here's a list of triangles used in different models for openarena.
the totals are for the three different level of details used for the model, different LoDs are used depending on how far away the model is.
the total amount in the three columns are the added triangles of the head, upper and lower parts of the characters.
i've added the quake 3 models of anarki and biker for reference.

modelname   total  LoD_1  LoD_2

angelyss    3090   1680   1810
arachna     3510   2670   2080
assassin    1830   1830   1830
ayumi       2325   2325   2325
beret       1800   1800   1800
gargoyle    3130   1820   1060
kyonshi     2530   1920   1180
liz         1900   1900   1900
major       1130   1130   1130
merman      2070   1485   765
penguin     1770   1770   1770
sarge       1530   1070   645
sergei      2565   1910   1440
skelebot    2220   2220   2220
smarine     2550   2550   2550
sorceress   2280   2280   2280
tony        1190   1190   1190

anarki       830   530   300
biker        790   440   280

note: "sarge" is the grism character
note: this is just how i've understood how it works - it may not be the world's most accurate study

[Cacatoes]

How did you get the amount of triangles used ?

Q3 models have really few ...

note: angelyss has more in LoD2 than in LoD1 (! :p)

[pulchr]

i loaded up the models in maya with the muskoka plugin and added the trianglecount of the different parts (head, lower, upper).

yes, it took some time

cacanotes: yes it seems strange that angelyss would have more triangles in LoD2 - so it might be a typo or some bad maths when i added them together

[defcon]

I think we should create a config generator or config optimization tutorial on the wiki, it would benefit allot of people with older hardware and make the game more playable for more people.