Free Performance Boost for Call of Duty 2!!!

[moonboy403]

i already made a post in another thread but for those who didn't know
okay...for those who complains about getting low framerates

here's a solution from a member in guru3d:
" I just figured out another tweak. This game isn't based on the Quake 3 engine anymore, but some of the tweaks still work. I tried out the hunkmegs tweak from Quake 3 on a hunch and what do ya know, it works

When you type in the console "/com_hunkmegs" you see how many megs of memory the game engine uses. By default it is only latched to 160 megs! You can set this value to anything up to 512 megs so that's what I did and my frames per second soared. Just type "/com_hunkmegs 512"

This won't take effect until the video is restarted so you can just type "/vid_restart" and it'll just reload the graphics settings with the hunkmegs latched to 512.

I can't believe this still works but it does. Try it out and youll see that in DX9 you'll be running smoother with the tweaks I just mentioned.

I hope this helps some of you."

according to many members over at guru3d...their framerates doubled by doing so

 

[xtknight]

This might also help with Doom 3 and Quake 4 (or any other of the Quake or COD series). Same command in the console.

It's not really surprising. All games allocate memory and this is a universal tweak, no matter if you're using the Quake, Unreal, or Source engine. You just got to find the command to change it (if there is one).

Edit: Oops, this command is under a different name in D3/Q4: image_cacheMegs

 

[DJSfurry]

Whats the command for the Source engines? anyone know?

 

[CPlusPlusGeek]

Was in one spot, 43fps. /com_hunkMegs 512... /vid_restart... loads... 53fps! not bad for a free boost, thanks'much

 

[Inappropriate4AT]

I've tried this tweak in a lot of games but never had any improvement.

 

[Born2bwire]

Yeah, no dice for me. I tried the setting and did not notice any change in my framerates.

 

[johnnqq]

all games? so ut2004 will be faster on my geforce 2 gts if i use that command? (i onl have 384 mb ram :\)

 

[SniperREX]

Ditto.

And for FEAR?

 

[TecHNooB]

Doesnt' work for me on doom 3. Says invalid command.

 

[PrayForDeath]

On the Souce engine I believe you add -heapsize 512000 to the shortcut target