Help!!! Ti4600 & XP2000 - Not that fast

[mylo]

I just upgraded my system to an Athlon XP 2000, with a A7V333 with Samsung 512meg DDR (1 dimm) and a Visiontek Ti4600. Playing RTCW I see about 85fps, and about the same in Counterstrike. My friend gets 100 in CS on a GF3 and a high end K7. Any ideas? I'm running Windows 2000 Professional. I just read the P4 2.4ghz shootout, and they were talking 258fps (is that real?).. I'm getting nowhere near that, but I'd at least expect more than my friends K7

-- Mylo

[murray]

What resolution, depth, &c?

[mylo]

I've tried a variety.. with and without AA. If I bump up to extremely high res and 4x AA, my FPS drops to 40's. But on 640x480x16.. I expect more than 85

[murray]

doh! *slaps head*
85 should have run a bell with me the first time. I'm betting you have vsync on and that's your monitor's refresh rate. If you turn it off you can see the nice high benchmark happy numbers, otherwise, you might as well leave it on. It should look nicer, and in reality you aren't getting more frames than your refresh rate anyways.

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[mylo]

Interesting.. I tried playing with the r_swapInterval option.. which according to this page:

http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/wolfe ... cw-3.shtml

Controls whether vsync is on or off.. Interestingly it was "off" when I was getting 85-90fps. I turn it "on" and now I get 60.

The monitor refresh may still be the problem though, since I've heard Win2k has a problem dropping to the lowest refresh (in this case 60hz) available. Since I'm using the new drivers, and the nvrefresh fix doesn't work with them.. I'm unable to fix it at a higher level.

This still doesn't explain why I'm only getting 90fps with it OFF.

-- Mylo

[JustAnEngineer]

WindowsXP does not understand "optimal" video refresh rates.

For DirectX, you can over-ride the default (60Hz) refresh by doing Start-Run-DXDIAG, then selecting the "More Help" tab and clicking on "Override". You can set one refresh rate for all Direct3D modes. So, if I have set mine for 100Hz, that is great for most of the resolutions that I use, up to 1280x1024, but at 1600x1200 or 1920x1440, my monitor loses sync because it can only handle those resolutions at lower refresh rates. This fix does not seem to work with some OpenGL games. RtCW may have its own setting (I saw it in a ReadMe somewhere).

The best solution seems to be PowerStrip, which lets you set lock in custom refresh rates for every resolution.

[dan@imprezion]

It is a thing with RTCW, what u have to do is change the max fps limit. To change it, go to the executable, (right click on it) where it says target and it should say "C:Program FilesReturn to Castle WolfensteinWolfMP.exe" all you have to do is add +set com_maxfps 500 to the end of it so it looks like this. "C:Program FilesReturn to Castle WolfensteinWolfMP.exe" +set com_maxfps 500.

That should take care of it. Oh yeah, that works for Quake 3 as well.


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[mylo]

BOO YA.. YOU RULE... 189fps baby

Thanks!
-- Mylo

[dan@imprezion]

Glad to help... but even those 189fps wont help you get away from my sniper rifle...

[mylo]

Wowza.. 325fps... I turned on the vsync, and it's obviously slower (@ 85fps) but seems cleaner. Maybe it's time for me to get a faster monitor. Setting the refresh rate in my wolfconfig_mp.cfg file did actually override windows default 60hz, but the most my monitor can do is 85hz. Looks like that's definately my bottle neck at this point. The only question is, where can I get a 300hz monitor hehehe

Thanks again,
-- Mylo

p.s. Bring on your sniper rifle I'm a medic! I'M INVINCABLE!

[absurdity]

As far as I know, isn't 85hz about as high as most monitors go?

[mylo]

Actually.. I installed PowerStrip, and locked it down at 100hz (at 1024x768).. anything higher stopped at 85hz. I turned on AAx2 and I get exactly 100fps all the time

I have a Dell (Sony) P990 19" monitor.

-- Mylo

[JustAnEngineer]

I have used Powerstrip to set my refresh rates to 100Hz for 1280x1024 and lower. Above that, the monitor's bandwidth limits the refresh rates to 85Hz for 1600x1200, 75Hz for 1920x1080, 70Hz for 1920x1200, and 60Hz for 1920x1440. The ViewSonic PF815 is a bit old. Some newer monitors have more bandwidth. I don't see much difference in 640x480 at 100Hz vs. 160Hz, so I've stuck with 100Hz.

[AENIMA]

you miht consider the fact that if you clock your monitor too high it could burn out.

[gyrfalcon]

You don't need refresh rates to be much higher than 85hz.. If your card can display 85fps my recomendation would be to increase the resolution. 1600x1200 at 85hz/85fps should be a lot better than 500+fps at 640x480.

[AENIMA]

an interesting fact is that your eyes dont actually see more than 90 frames inna second!!!

[gyrfalcon]

This is kinda like pro audio equipment debates: saying what you can and can not hear... And maybe if you can't see it, you'll know if it's missing.

But you're mostly right about 90fps, no matter how much higher you go diminishing returns result.

[Rambar]

Wowza.. 325fps... I turned on the vsync, and it's obviously slower (@ 85fps) but seems cleaner.

Except, he can obviously tell.

[gyrfalcon]

Wowza.. 325fps... I turned on the vsync, and it's obviously slower (@ 85fps) but seems cleaner.

Except, he can obviously tell.

Hah! Well at 85hz he can't I think he just likes the 325fps displayed in the corner of his screen.