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Old March 21st 06, 04:19 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,wpg.computers.help,wpg.forsale.computers
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Default fps problem

could you describe how the aperture thing works
i tried all settings but nothing really seemed to change.
"Paul" wrote in message
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In article G91Tf.158050$H%4.92229@pd7tw2no, "Jake"
wrote:

its the first time this has happened to me but
even when I turn down the resolution in games the FPS stays the same even
at
640 x 8000.

Ill try and keep it short.
have a nvidia Ti200. while running day of defeat i notice my frames
are
getting low while in firefights. (below 20)
no fun. I try lowering the resolution, no difference!
thats odd. set it to 800 x 600 still the same!!!
reinstall drivers after getting rid of old with pc driver cleaner.
Still

the
same.
Figure i need a new video card anyway.
buy a 7800 GS, put it in today and guess what
Same frickin frame rates!!!!!!!

someone please help me!!!!



have a 2.4 p4 im overclockin to 2.65
P4P800 mobo
2048 mb of ram pc 3200
400mhz bus speed
nothing running in the background
latest drivers for nvidia although im trying some third party ones now.
Hard drive is maxtor 120 gig 7200 rpm SATA drive


According to this, I'm guessing BF2 is GPU bound, as increasing
the CPU seems to be doing nothing.

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/athl...ing/page14.asp

That means you should be seeing some kind of frame rate increase,
when you use a new card.

The first thing I would do, is get a copy of Powerstrip from
entechtaiwan.com . Install it, then use the Options menu item
from the icon at the bottom right of your screen. In the upper
right hand area of the Powerstrip Options screen, it will have
an item with:

DMA (direct memory access)
DIME (direct in memory execution)
None

The bad setting would be None, and if it is currently reading
None, you have to fix it. If, when you were installing the
chipset drives, you somehow installed a "PCI" driver for the
video slot, that is one way for "None" to happen. I have done
this on purpose, by selecting the PCI driver option from the
Intel chipset unzipped install directory, but this should not
happen during a normal install.

Before you uninstalled the previous video card, you should
have removed the video card driver. Then, turned off and
unplugged the old video card. Installed new video card,
installed new video card driver. The Intel chipset driver
shouldn't need to be touched, if it was working right when
the old card was installed.

There are other settings, like the AGP aperture. If you had
made a particularly bad selection there, that might affect
performance. But I'd want to check how textures are being
handled first, and one of DMA or DIME is what you want.
You can tune the hardware settings by using some version of
3DMark. Even 3DMark2001SE could be used for system tuning.

Paul