Level Design weird lag

[RoBoT]

hey guys & girls,

I have been working on map very slow and I had this weird issue with terrain's grass makes my new laptop lags alot, im not sure what cause this problem because I only added more normal lights and rebuilt them, so when I view the terrain's grass i get crazy fps goes between 30 - 160 fps

so I dont know if its my laptop's problem or the map, I need some suggestions...


NOTE:
deco layers (grass) properties
MaxPerQuad = 10 (too much?)
FadeoutRadiusMin = 1000
FadeoutRadiusMax = 1400

and i had good fps before adding more lights on my old laptop without changing grass properties.

 

[Falidell]

first where are these new lights?

second how close proximity are they to other lights and what is these light radius?


my theory is that the lag is most likely too many lights with large radius in the same area..


edit: may i have a screenshot of the trouble area inside the SDK?

 

[RoBoT]

the map is basically a building with grass around it. I have added the new lights inside the building and 3 new spotlights facing the windows which they're close to the grass... i know im talking non-sense right now so here is screenshot

Radius:
blue lights outside = 30
blue spotlights on windows = 64
yellow spotlight on top of lamp = 64

I disabled the grass showing on the terrain and got fine fps even though they're not that many grass, i just made them wider to cover the ground

 

[RoBoT]

oh nvm, it was my ****ty laptop's problem, i just opened Nvidia control panel changed "Anisotropic filtering" to x2 instead of x8 and here we go
I get 90 fps as lowest


sorry for wasting time but thx anyway! now i ll go back to work

 

[Falidell]

not a problem at all, btw looks very nice indeed +D