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Hi guys, I have problems with my performance
I have a Celeron 600, 64 mb-ram, Ecs P6BAP-A+ and a Creative Geforce 2mx...
I have the latest drivers of Nvidia, motherboard, monitor, directX 8.0..

When I Unreal Tournament in dm-Pressure, 800x600 16bit, medium detail, direct3d.. I have a fps of 30 when I play offline... No problem at all !

When I play Infiltration in dm-Pressure, 800x600 16bit, Low Details, direct3d... I have a fps of 17 when I play offline...
My fps is 10 when I play a INF map online... :(

I have a 3dfx voodoo 1 too...
I tested this at Infiltration and my fps was 17.
That's why I am using a 3dfx voodoo 1 instead of my Geforce 2mx

My voodoo 1 is (I think) 4-mb and my Geforce is 32 mb-ram
This all looks like a joke but it isn't... :mad:

I have tried allot with some clanmates of my clan, Like drivers, bios settings.. stuff like that.. I have set my CacheSizeMegs in to 12, but it didn't helped a thing...


Can someone please help me with me weird problem??


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Tommy Atkins

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Tweaks with a Geforce 2 MX

This MIGHT help. I'm using direct 3d at the moment. Go to the console, and type 'Preferences' (no quotes)

open rendering, then direct 3d
set:
Coronas to false;
Shiny surfaces to false;
Use precache off;
Use video memo true.

Then open the advanced bit back at the top of the tree, gp onto game engine settings and set cache size at 8 meg.

In normal prefs in ut i use 32 bit medium world texture and medium skin detail.

Some people recommend tuning off anti-aliasing on your GFX card too. Haven't tried that yet.

[edit]Having said all that, has this problem only started with the 85.5 patch? Some people are reporting performance issues with it...[/edit]
 
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I have tried tried the cache size to 12
It didn't helped a thing...

I am going your direct3d settings...

I had these problems all the time with Infiltration..
The problem gets bigger when I install moe maps..

btw, I have Window's 98 and Anti-aliasing off..
 
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Yeah I have those drivers...

I have tested today my computer with some mb-ram of my brothers computer..

So I had now a Celeron 600, 160 mb-ram, Creative Geforce 2mx

I tried 3dmark2001 and my score was 1045..

the settings were, 640x680 16bit, 16 bit texture, double filtering
 
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try ...

Below is the d3d section from my ini file.
U may wanna pay special attention to

UseAGPTextures=False
UseVideoMemoryVB=True

Try those 2 see if they help.
And maybe also

UseVSync=False


Keep in mind the MX cards are kinda slow, even compared to a geforce 1 DDR. Dunno wht they got such a good rep as they did. A GF1 DDR or Radeon will prob offer more fillrate. That slow memory really puts a cap on the geforce chips.

[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]
Translucency=True
VolumetricLighting=True
ShinySurfaces=False
Coronas=False
HighDetailActors=True
UseMipmapping=True
UseTrilinear=False
UseMultitexture=True
UsePageFlipping=True
UsePalettes=True
UseFullscreen=True
UseGammaCorrection=True
DetailTextures=False
Use3dfx=False
UseTripleBuffering=True
UsePrecache=True
Use32BitTextures=False
Use32BitZBuffer=True
UseVertexFog=False
UseAGPTextures=False
UseVideoMemoryVB=True
UseVSync=False
dwDeviceId=0
dwVendorId=0
DescFlags=0
Description=


gpk

P.S. I would SERIOUSLY consider getting AT LEAST another 64 MB of system RAM seeing as how it's so cheap now 64 is pretty low for most stuff.
 
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I have tested my computer again with 160 mb-ram.

I tested Unreal Tournament on 1024 x 768, 32 bit, High details.

My average fps was 28.

After that I tested Infiltration on 640 x 480, 16 bit, low details

my average fps was 25

after that, I tested 3dmark2001 on 640 x 480 16 bit

result was 1027 points
 
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I know exacly what your problem is with this......

Quote from Creative's Home Page (the 3D card Section)
the system requirments of your Creative Gforce 2 MX

"System Requirements


IBM® or 100% compatible personal computer
Intel® Pentium® II or AMD K6® class processor or higher operating at 266MHz or faster
Available AGP 2.0 compliant slot (AGP version)
Available PCI 2.1 compliant expansion slot (PCI version)
64MB of system memory
15MB of available disk space for driver installation (Other included software required additional disk space)
Microsoft® Windows® 95 OSR 2.x, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT® 4.0 with SP5 or Windows 2000
CD-ROM drive for software installation
VGA, multi-frequency compatible monitor"

Notice anything???? Your Running a >Celeron<
it wont work on your CPU, I spent a month reaserching GForce 2's and that was my problem, I was running a celeron too...
i had to get myself a Pent II 233 atleast, so I went the whole nine yards and got a Gig processor and new mother board just to get a GForce 2, and just to play Inf with out lag from Polly's and Grafic's...

Sorry to say this but you'll need to get a new CPU to run your GForce 2 MX...
sorry for the bad news... but atleast you know what it is...

you can goto http://www.3dblaster.com/products/gf2mx/system.asp
to verify this if you want

good luck in the future
and next time look on the box and see if your system meets its Min Spec's...
Night
 
CrappyChan

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AMD Athlon 800
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GeForce MX

i get 40-50 fps with direct 3d, and like 60 with open Gl i don't use open gl cause i get this weird see though wall problem with it. I have all the options selected too high quality textures. I use d3d cause its better looking i think. When i first got my GeForce 2 i had MAJORRR problems with it. I found that installing Direct X 8.1a 3 times get eveerything working, don't ask why...

Oh **** big tunderstorm GOTTA GOOOOOOOOOOO!!
 
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it UT and INF, the main variable is the processor.... period.

you can have a Voodoo5 or a Voodoo3 or a Geforce2 and your framerates will not differ "that" much with the same processor.

for example, i just went from a P2 200 to a Athlon 850. Framerate went up 30 FPS. in getting a new video card (went from V3 to V5) FPS went up only 5 FPS.

plus, you've got a processor that's made for webbrowsing and word processing, NOT gaming.

that's my 2 cents...
 
CrappyChan

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Originally posted by the_resistance
in getting a new video card (went from V3 to V5) FPS went up only 5 FPS.
Click to expand...

LOL yeah, i switched from a TNT2 to my geForce 2 and am getting about the same proformance...
 
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