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fps problem
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 |
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Sounds like the game is running entirely from the hard drive,
and won't cache for some reason. Or, you've got a high error rate when the game tries to cache. Or, you've got a "server scumware" running .. possibly several. Or, you recently upgraded your mobo BIOS, and THAT will do it every time. In your case, I would back up my working docs, email, etc ... and totally reinstall the OS from a cleanly formatted drive. johns |
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Is it with all games or just certain ones in particular? Perhaps check
the drive for errors (chkdsk) and run a defrag. That may help. Do you still have virtual memory enabled? I know of some people who disable it when they upgrade to 2 gigs of RAM thinking they don't need it anymore (you still do). I don't think that upgrading your mobo's BIOS would have any negative effect. |
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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 |
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could you describe how the aperture thing works
i tried all settings but nothing really seemed to change. "Paul" wrote in message ... 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 |
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In article jhKTf.164378$H%4.84872@pd7tw2no, "Jake" wrote:
could you describe how the aperture thing works i tried all settings but nothing really seemed to change. There is a reasonable explanation here. The AGP Aperture is a portion of memory space, allocated to allow the GPU to extend the total memory at its disposal. Your video card has a local memory (64MB, 128MB, 256MB etc), and if a game has more textures than that, they can be stored in a bunch of smaller areas of system memory. The AGP GART gathers the chunks of memory together, and makes them look like a block of memory to the video card. Using DMA or DIME, the GPU can interact with the piece of system memory. Since system memory is so much slower than the local graphics memory, having to use the main memory for textures is something you don't want to have to do too much. http://www.rojakpot.com/showFreeBOG....ang=0&bogno=32 Some old aperture size tests: http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/aperture-size/3.shtml Judging by that Tweak3D article, you never really know whether a given game or benchmark, will have some issue with the aperture or not. It is something you can play with, but it doesn't come with any guarantees. Paul |
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nevermind I read the link .
thanks alot Paul , very helpful. "Paul" wrote in message ... In article jhKTf.164378$H%4.84872@pd7tw2no, "Jake" wrote: could you describe how the aperture thing works i tried all settings but nothing really seemed to change. There is a reasonable explanation here. The AGP Aperture is a portion of memory space, allocated to allow the GPU to extend the total memory at its disposal. Your video card has a local memory (64MB, 128MB, 256MB etc), and if a game has more textures than that, they can be stored in a bunch of smaller areas of system memory. The AGP GART gathers the chunks of memory together, and makes them look like a block of memory to the video card. Using DMA or DIME, the GPU can interact with the piece of system memory. Since system memory is so much slower than the local graphics memory, having to use the main memory for textures is something you don't want to have to do too much. http://www.rojakpot.com/showFreeBOG....ang=0&bogno=32 Some old aperture size tests: http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/aperture-size/3.shtml Judging by that Tweak3D article, you never really know whether a given game or benchmark, will have some issue with the aperture or not. It is something you can play with, but it doesn't come with any guarantees. Paul |
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