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| 158027 | 2003-07-07 05:58:00 | Hi, I have a fairly decent system, 1700+ athlon, 256 RAM and a Geforce4 Ti4200 card with 128 mb RAM. Games I play however do not produce high frame rates (usually between 50-60 at 800x600 res) even though my specs are well above the minimum. With C&C generals my frame rates slip to between 10-15. No matter how much I lower the detail etc nothing seems to change. It seem to me that i may as well have kept my old 32mb TNT2 card as the geforce4 seems to produce the same results even though it cost four times as much. Any ideas on what could be wrong or what i could do to improve this. Cheers Veale |
Veale (536) | ||
| 158028 | 2003-07-07 06:06:00 | Have you got Antistropic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing enabled?? Try turning them off :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 158029 | 2003-07-07 06:13:00 | Have you installed your motherboard drivers correctly? Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 158030 | 2003-07-07 06:43:00 | I have a similar setup. I play Panzer Elite @ 10-20 and it is usable. People get hang up with frame-rates. Not so important in Singleplayer mode |
KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 158031 | 2003-07-07 07:17:00 | Run your task manager CTRL+ALT-DEL (Once only of course) and disable any apps that may be running. Unnecessary apps hog your CPU resources, so kick em out. Also, run msconfig and disable those apps that are in the start up tab that you don't need to start up automatically. | sinndisco (4059) | ||
| 158032 | 2003-07-07 08:17:00 | Turn off Anti-virus software when running game. Also under your openGl settings (advanced-{card tab name}-performance & quality settings), Make Vertical Sync = off by default. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 158033 | 2003-07-07 11:44:00 | 99 percent of games run under direct3d not open gl,so turning off v-sync under that option wont help . Plus it just sync's the frame-rate with the refresh rate,so it doesn't affect anything untill you hit a minumum 60fps(common refresh rate for lower end monitors running at 1024x768) . Plus,having a constant 60fps is an excellent medium . That rig in good order should easily run modern games at a good rate under full detail,although the g4ti cards do take a pretty big hit with aa and aniosotropic filtering enabled . You mention you had a tnt2 in the system before hand,did you complety remove all traces of the video drivers before installiung the g4? My advice would be to firsty make sure your os is in a lean mean state,and remove the nvidia drivers completly,then to get the latest drivers off the nvidia site . Cant hurt to reload directx while your at it . If you want a few more options for your set-up,then get coolbits,its a reg entry that enables the ability to turn off v-sync under direct3d if your that way inclined(although,as i said that wont improve frame rates untill they excedd your refresh rate . . . . . . ) |
metla (154) | ||
| 158034 | 2003-07-07 13:20:00 | MMM interesting Metla, so we will ignore all quake 1,2&3, half-life and it's side shows like counterstrike, TFC and Day of defeat and Unreal ? for starters. Can come up with quite a list actually. PC's run a lot faster in openGL, much to Microsofts disgust. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 158035 | 2003-07-07 22:25:00 | Cheers, Will try the anti-anilising etc. Will it help to install dx9, have heard mixed reviews about it but am not entirely sure. Also, are there any tweaks that i can try that wont damage the board? Cheers Veale |
Veale (536) | ||
| 158036 | 2003-07-07 22:49:00 | DX9 - Cant go wrong with the performance its given me on ALL the PC's Ive used it on :-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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