Battle FPS...seems low

[olaf73]

I have an XP2700+/1gig/9800 Pro on XP Pro. I am using Cat 3.9s, but I was using the 3.7s and the FPS was the same, bad.

At normal detail, I get about 24fps at 1600x1200 screen res. That seems low to me, what are you guys getting?

olaf

edit: I am not here for the graphics, but if there is something I can do so that I can boost my FPS and/or the detail, I am all for it.

[ December 16, 2003, 06:59: Message edited by: olaf73 ]

[Saber Cherry]

If you are running 75 Hz refresh, try increasing it to 85 Hz. Or turn off vsync.

I get about 50 fps with much lower specs and an Nvidia Geforce 4600.

[ December 16, 2003, 07:13: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

[Delphinium]

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]

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]

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

[Johan K]

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]

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

[Saber Cherry]

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]

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

[Johan K]

The missiles will not fly faster at 100 fps than at 10 fps. They always travel at 70 mph (?) unless you have a very very low number of fps.