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EDcase	#1 09/05/2009 - 00h51 Top
Class : Apprenti Posts : 11 Registered on : 05/05/2009 Off line	Hiall, I just found something interesting and thought I'd tell you to see if it gives the same improved responsiveness. I'm using a cheapie Philips SPC300NC/00 webcam and I had it set on default 30fps. Playing ArmA which is very CPU intesive I was getting quite slow response to head movement. After lots of fiddling I tried setting the camera and FreeTrack fps LOWER. Camera set to 5fps FreeTrack framerate set to 5 fps 1 multiplier Hey presto its much more responsive!!! It will be more jittery but just increase smoothing. See if it works for you... Edited by EDcase on 13/05/2009 at 11h18.
DrSnow	#2 11/05/2009 - 18h21 Top
Class : Apprenti Posts : 39 Registered on : 11/08/2008 Off line	Hi Ed, What kind of rig you have? Reading your post it seems something is not right. I get a feel that your camera loses or gets too weak signal from cap or there is too much inteference by outcoming light. I have old P4 2.8 with 1 gb memory and 9600 xt graphics card. With FT i use 3 point cap and MS VX1000 camera. And i run Arma with it. With this rig i easily get from FT steady 27-30 fps and practically no jitter (0-6). Have you forced your camera to outdoor settings? And have you sanded down the leds? Don't leave plastic more than 1 or 2 mm above the cathode. What colour the leds are? Hope u get some improvement out of these... Cheers, Snow Oh, and just remembered, A thing worth checking is that you have enough bandwidth in cameras USB line. (and that it supports USB 2.0) (edited typos) Edited by DrSnow on 11/05/2009 at 18h28.
EDcase	#3 12/05/2009 - 09h08 Top
Class : Apprenti Posts : 11 Registered on : 05/05/2009 Off line	Thanks DrSnow, I guess I was not clear in my post. Its not a limitation of my rig. Freetrack shows the camera operating at about 38fps raw. But when the camera is operating at 30fps in ArmA the head movement lags behind when I turn my head. My low fps settings make the head response MUCH better. After all you don't move your head 30 times a second so its not necessary to have the sampling so high. Thanks for the reply anyway. Ed Edited by EDcase on 12/05/2009 at 09h09.
René	#4 12/05/2009 - 12h18 Top
Class : Apprenti Posts : 4 Registered on : 04/05/2009 Off line	Actually I noticed the same thing when I turned the Multiplier off. Camera runs at 30 fps, with Multiplier 1. Eliminates almost all lag.
DrSnow	#5 12/05/2009 - 19h00 Top
Class : Apprenti Posts : 39 Registered on : 11/08/2008 Off line	Ok, a clear misundestanding from me. Edited by DrSnow on 12/05/2009 at 19h01.
EDcase	#6 13/05/2009 - 11h17 Top
Class : Apprenti Posts : 11 Registered on : 05/05/2009 Off line	René @ 12/05/2009 - 14h18 a dit: Actually I noticed the same thing when I turned the Multiplier off. Camera runs at 30 fps, with Multiplier 1. Eliminates almost all lag. Yes, I think the multiplier at 4 (auto) makes the movement smoother but very laggy/slow. Edited by EDcase on 18/05/2009 at 13h50.

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