fps help

That topic on the Atari-forum has even more info about increasing your FPS, it's a good read and it certainly helped me out!

First, take out 1 GB of RAM. It's been proven that memory bandwidth/performance is lowered with over 4 banks (banks, not sticks) of memory installed. Secondly, make sure that your video card doesn't have anisotropic filtering (AF) or anti-aliasing (AA) enabled. Other than that, I don't know what it would be.

Edit: I run XMP with 4xAA and 8xAF at 1024x768x32 with all the settings up. I get about 25 FPS sometimes dipping to 15, like you described, on a roughly equivalent system:
Pentium 4 2.4A @ 2.61 GHz
512 MB PC-3200 DDR
Radeon 9600 Pro @ 533/700

I get ~40 FPS with no AA or AF. Essentially, AA and AF require your computer to draw each frame more than once, causing it to slow down. Mediocre memory bandwidth really limits my FPS rate's ability to go any higher.

My system:

P4 2.53GHz
1 gig'o'RAM (DDR333)
Radeon 9700

I get ~50fps avg on XMP (1024x768, max details)

The key to get those high fps was for me to install Catalyst 4.1, it gave me a 20fps boost (dont ask me why).

After the patch, I get about 50 fps. I averaged about 20 before hand, so big improvement.

Celeron 2.4ghz
512mb RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro

What're your 3D settings?

I got an AthlonXP2000+ 512Mb Ram and a GF4Ti4600 and I got silky smooth FPS running everything at full - heres some of my U2XMP.ini:

[Engine.GameEngine]
CacheSizeMegs=64
UseSound=True
ServerActors=IpDrv.MasterServerUplink
;ServerActors=UWeb.WebServer
;ServerPackages=...

[WinDrv.WindowsClient]
WindowedViewportX=640
WindowedViewportY=480
WindowedOffsetX=-1
WindowedOffsetY=-1
FullscreenViewportX=1024
FullscreenViewportY=768
MenuViewportX=640
MenuViewportY=480
Brightness=0.800000
Contrast=0.700000
Gamma=1.020000
UseJoystick=False
CaptureMouse=True
StartupFullscreen=True
RemapMouseEvents=False
ScreenFlashes=True
NoLighting=False
MinDesiredFrameRate=35.000000
Decals=True
Coronas=True
DecoLayers=True
Projectors=True
PlayerShadows=True
NoDynamicLights=False
ReportDynamicUploads=False
TextureDetailWorld=UltraHigh
TextureDetailPlayerSkin=UltraHigh
TextureDetailWeaponSkin=UltraHigh
TextureDetailTerrain=UltraHigh
TextureDetailLightmap=UltraHigh
NoFractalAnim=False
ScaleHUDX=0.0
MouseSpeed=1.500000
ParticleDensity=255
ParticleSafeMode=0 //normal
;ParticleSafeMode=1 //disable particle serialization
;ParticleSafeMode=2 //verify inner object deletion
;ParticleSafeMode=3 //disable force particle serialization

[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]
DetailTextures=True
HighDetailActors=True
SuperHighDetailActors=True
UsePrecaching=True
UseTrilinear=True
AdapterNumber=-1
ReduceMouseLag=True
UseTripleBuffering=True
UseHardwareTL=True
UseHardwareVS=True
UseCubemaps=True
DesiredRefreshRate=60
UseCompressedLightmaps=False
UseStencil=False
Use16bit=False
Use16bitTextures=False
MaxPixelShaderVersion=255
UseVSync=False
LevelOfAnisotropy=1
DetailTexMipBias=0.800000
DefaultTexMipBias=-0.500000
UseNPatches=False
TesselationFactor=1.000000
CheckForOverflow=False
DecompressTextures=False
UseXBoxFSAA=False


maybe theres something in there that may help you?

good luck

nobody post the link to the Atari forum thread.

that might help.

Ironicy, if you're looking for spheremark...

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/SphereMark.html

It's supplied by Nvid.


Using a 1.2 duron processor, 1 gig of ram and an ati 9600 non pro and get about 30 to 40 frames per second at 800x600 with max detail with small games. My fps drops when there are a load of players on the sever due to model poly count. That's when I just drop texture detail and such and get back to good rates. I need to upgrade my mother board rather soon to an anthlon 2500+ processor.

i have normally under 20! thats because of my GeForce2 MX/MX400! But it's enough to play! I#m going to buy a new one in this mounth

Do not get the 5200 or 5600 FX cards. Go with the 5700 (5750) or 5900 ultras if you can flip the cash. I use either Ati or Nvidia and had little problem with both. But I currently need a new processor. That's my major problem.

yeah,ive got a 5200 and get 16-26 fps in u2 xmp.need some $$ for that 5950

CiD said:

yeah,ive got a 5200 and get 16-26 fps in u2 xmp.need some $$ for that 5950

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Dual Xeon 2.4 Chips
2gigs DDR 2700
9800XT

Run at 1800x1200 get about 50-70 fps

gg h4x