Does anyone else here play DarkMod with a GTX 980?

[motorsep]

So I have two questions - how do you do rain in TDM and how did you fix this performance issue? (I use particle systems for my rain)

[nbohr1more]

This fix is TDM specific unless you use a light-gem render in your game too.

We simply excluded particles from our light-gem pass.

 

TDM does have distance checking for particles so that's something beyond native Doom 3.

 

There are plans to optimize this further using GPU oriented approaches.

[motorsep]

This fix is TDM specific unless you use a light-gem render in your game too.

We simply excluded particles from our light-gem pass.

 

TDM does have distance checking for particles so that's something beyond native Doom 3.

 

There are plans to optimize this further using GPU oriented approaches.

 

Nah, I don't have light-gem in my game.I thought you moved something on GPU (particles or something else). Since SteveL suggested to moved something on GPU, I began to wonder how you made rain. Cos if it's particles, moving particles to GPU isn't trivial task. And if you made rain with some other technique, not with particles, I would like to know how it's implemented

[Tr00pertj]

I run tdm on 2 gtx 980's in sli and I had pretty poor performance for a while running on win 10 tp. Not only tdm but other games aswell were fluctuating in performance way beyond what I expected and the system specs are in my sig.
After a while I ran into some older thread which led me to a newer one about a monitor timming thing used for power saving or something. From memory it was 15.6ns or something by default and is a global setting that needs to be reset to default after an app changes it.

I read about it on many forums and write ups which led me to try msi kombuster burn in and benchmark app. I ran it once. Now I just start it in the back ground if a game plays up and it worked. Its only like 18meg download so try it let us know if it works.
Do a google search for msi kombuster.

Edited April 8, 2015 by Tr00pertj