Weird solution to Halo performance
This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been
playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. |
On 10/21/2003 1:15 AM zlo befouled our nation with:
This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. I doubt if its 100% better or really much better at all, but you're describing a CPU bottleneck precisely. I don't know really know what happens when you combine a card like that and a processor that slow, it does remind me back when I had a Voodoo3 running on a 300 MHz Celeron, games ran a little faster at 1280x1024 than they did at 800x600 or at least it felt that way. Running Halo at 1600x1200 sure as hell isn't faster on my system. :-P -- "I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich." Steve [Inglo] |
I"m not sure that's possible. At higher resolution, the cpu is working just
as hard, but the framerate cape becomes the video card, not the cpu as is with lower resolutions. It would be possible to get the same framerate when going from a lower to a higher resolution. Which is I think what's happening in your case since you have a very fast video card but a slow cpu. Try runnning fraps in the background while playing to check you fps. Getting higher framerates at higher res. is extremely unlikely "zlo" wrote in message . net... This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. |
zlo wrote:
This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. CPU is pretty slow (in terms of cutting edge - I'm not sure what Halo typically requires) Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. Thats interesting to say the least. Did you ONLY change the resolution? Did bumping the resolution that high disable something else (like, I dunno... AA) It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? Nah, what the CPU does and what the GPU does is pretty clearly defined by the drivers, regardless of resolution. I suspect that raising the resolution disabled something else, that was causing the game to run slow. With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. That is odd. I always run at 1600x1200 so I can't say I've noticed :-) Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:23:51 -0400, "Sparrow" wrote:
I"m not sure that's possible. At higher resolution, the cpu is working just as hard, but the framerate cape becomes the video card, not the cpu as is with lower resolutions. It would be possible to get the same framerate when going from a lower to a higher resolution. Which is I think what's happening in your case since you have a very fast video card but a slow cpu. Try runnning fraps in the background while playing to check you fps. Getting higher framerates at higher res. is extremely unlikely You can get a frame rate counter (built in) by hitting CTRL-F12. Pluvious "zlo" wrote in message .net... This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. |
i will try ctrl f12, because fraps will not work with my cpu. says it lacks
sse instructions or something. -- www.geocities.com/mtb2k -my site "Pluvious" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:23:51 -0400, "Sparrow" wrote: I"m not sure that's possible. At higher resolution, the cpu is working just as hard, but the framerate cape becomes the video card, not the cpu as is with lower resolutions. It would be possible to get the same framerate when going from a lower to a higher resolution. Which is I think what's happening in your case since you have a very fast video card but a slow cpu. Try runnning fraps in the background while playing to check you fps. Getting higher framerates at higher res. is extremely unlikely You can get a frame rate counter (built in) by hitting CTRL-F12. Pluvious "zlo" wrote in message .net... This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. |
you are aware that (in your prior post) that MAYA and all that other expensive software was never meant to be installed in
conjunction with 'games', There are subtle changes made to various system and driver files. "zlo" wrote in message . net... This game has been running like crap on my system. It hasn't even been playable at 800x600, or 1024x768. I've heard about issues with AA so i always turn it off. My system is 1.2 athlon, 512DDR, 9700pro, 4x agp. Well i thought i would do something really stupid, out of boredom. I bumped it up to 1600x1200 to see how low i could go with my framerate. I could let it sit, and just watch the screen at 16x12 and dream about what it would be like to see it move smoothly at such a nice res. Low and behold, it runs a 100% better at 1600x1200! Why??? It's actually playable now, and if i had a faster cpu, i bet it would run even smoother all the time. It's really awesome to finally see this game in hi res, but i don't understand why it runs so much better at 1600x1200 than 800x600. The only thing i can think of is that by raising the res, it's telling the card to take more of the load rather than the cpu? With the exclusion of AA and AF, this is true of my other games too. I get better framerates at 1600x1200 than i do at 1024x768. |
when you install MAYA (non bootleg) will tell you in the beginning of the install that there will be changes made to your system. I
cannot give specifics as I do not own that software. However, during my training at college, we had the option to use whichever software we wanted on a new bank of machines. We took the initiative to install the software ourselves, that's when I discovered this. I did not do the virtual dub install, but through the grapevine heard that games stopped running exceptionally after the software was installed. All this makes sense as this software is normally installed and hardly ANYTHING else, in the work environment. It is not printed on the web page(at least not anywhere I have found) but it does discuss it briefly in the install manual that comes with the software. I know I know black & white is the only way you'll except this....well I don't have it, but I can tell you through experience with the software, this is true... these kids have no business having that SW ITFP. It can only be ripped off, And as a retired professional I resent the fact that they do....even Adobe and their release of 'essentials' ****ed me off. Take it the way you will, I rarely post things that I cannot prove, but this is one time that my experience will have to do.... "Ben Pope" wrote in message ... JAD wrote: you are aware that (in your prior post) that MAYA and all that other expensive software was never meant to be installed in conjunction with 'games', There are subtle changes made to various system and driver files. Hmm... not sure what you mean by that. Do you have any specifics? Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
JAD wrote:
when you install MAYA (non bootleg) will tell you in the beginning of the install that there will be changes made to your system. I cannot give specifics as I do not own that software. However, during my training at college, we had the option to use whichever software we wanted on a new bank of machines. We took the initiative to install the software ourselves, that's when I discovered this. I did not do the virtual dub install, but through the grapevine heard that games stopped running exceptionally after the software was installed. All this makes sense as this software is normally installed and hardly ANYTHING else, in the work environment. It is not printed on the web page(at least not anywhere I have found) but it does discuss it briefly in the install manual that comes with the software. I know I know black & white is the only way you'll except this....well I don't have it, but I can tell you through experience with the software, this is true... these kids have no business having that SW ITFP. It can only be ripped off, And as a retired professional I resent the fact that they do....even Adobe and their release of 'essentials' ****ed me off. Take it the way you will, I rarely post things that I cannot prove, but this is one time that my experience will have to do.... Well off-hand I can see no reason to directly modify system files that would affect game performance. I suspect that in certain situations whats happening is that it's introducing a layer in the drivers that is adding some kind of functionality but slowing down the rendering overall. Who knows... anything is possible. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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