Battle FPS...seems low

Delphinium · #1 December 16th, 2003, 10:02 AM

I have an Athlon2600, Radeon 9700 and can't get better than 25fps. My son's spec is Athlon2000, GeForce Ti4200, he gets 33fps.
Perhaps for this its the Radeons/drivers.
Both machines are 512MB otherwise identical. We both run LCD screens, Steven runs a cheap analogue screen, mine is digital.

The question is what is the main determining factor in the FPS, Steven has an overclocked Ti4200. What does anybody else get ?
I'd expect Saber Cherry to get in the 30's or better with a 4600, I was interested to see how other Radeon usesr fared, as I'd felt let down by 24/25. Resolution makes no difference either.

olaf73 · #2 December 16th, 2003, 06:53 PM

I am running 85Hz. Why would Vsync on be killing the frames? I will try that, but I dont think thats it.

It seems more likely to be an ATI vs Nvidia issue, as I installed it on my work machine and get better FPS on it, and its a significantly weaker machine. Its a P4 2G/1gig/Ti500 and it gets 30FPS at the same res.

olaf

NTJedi · #3 December 16th, 2003, 07:46 PM

make sure your display settings are set for 16-bit colors instead of 32-bit.

Johan K · #4 December 16th, 2003, 07:59 PM

A word of warning though. Dom II in 32-bit color looks decidedly better than 16-bit. So reducing the number of colors kind of negates the benefit of having a high resolution.

Delphinium · #5 December 17th, 2003, 01:16 AM

On my Radeon 9700, it makes no difference on 16/32 colour modes. I can live with 24 - maybe if I overclock

Saber Cherry · #6 December 17th, 2003, 07:30 AM

Refresh rate:

I found that in various configurations, my framerate was always 25 fps, 33 fps, or 50 fps. Those are all common factors of 100 when divided by low integers (4, 3, and 2) and I was running at 100Hz refresh=)

Keir Maxwell · #7 December 17th, 2003, 11:00 AM

I get 50fps at low or very low detail and it tails off from there. I'm have a 1.6 p4 with a GeForce4 MX 440 64MB, win2000 and heaps of RAM. Refresh rate is 75Hz as this is the fastest my old 17" monitor will allow.

16 bit or 32 bit colour doesn't make a difference to speed for me.

Those missiles sure are annoying - I keep the detail down at low and its still a pain. At 20fps?? Eeck.

Cheers

Keir