Sorry machine.

[texace]

I'm running a Gateway 450 with an AMD-K6 2 450 MHz. I can't push more than 15 fps using VooDoo 2. Anyone got a spare 700 or tips? <G>

 

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Lt. Col. Aaron "txace-" Giles of the 457th BG
    "Fait Accompli"

[-raxx-]

texace,

Ground Clutter turns off with ctrl-C, (although it makes judging the distance to the hard deck difficult to judge when you're down low).  Reducing the distance that the ground is rendered will also UP the framerate, (shift-F1 Full, Shift-F2 Reduced, Shift-F3 minimal).

Dropping the colour depth or resolution may help a little, (starting up AH click on the Video Button).

Final Suggestion:  Get a kickass video card.  I'm running a PIII 400Mhz with 128Mb RAM and an AGP V3800-TVR Video card, (32Mb TNT2 card), which squeezes 28fps over an airfield and drops to 12fps in heavy smoke, (at 1024x768 res and 32 bit colour).

Spotcha in the Air

[snafu]

Hi Texace,
 I'm running a PII400 with a Voodoo 2. I get about 42 fps (Cockpit view - no furball),

I only run in 800 - 600, But it takes smoke etc to get my system down to your levels. (From AH not my CPU )   1st thing I would try is checking the refresh rates of you monitor. I run a Very old "Hitachi 20 mvx". It only runs at 60htz & I can "murder" my fps if I mess with it.

Have a read of Blooms25's execellent notes in the Tech support forum "A (Possibly) Useful piece of information"
Link = http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/Forum5/HTML/000440.html  

Hope this helps

TTFN
snafu

[Westy]

I think the choking point is your AMD cpu.
After a year of seeing people post problems and lack of performance and the AMD cpu's being at the heart of many of these, I've decided that an AMD chip is not in my future.

-Westy

[Fatty]

Easy there Westy, that's the K2 series, by anyone's reckoning a lesser chip at any given speed.

My new Athlon 750 otoh, gets 50+ in 1600x1200x32, with an older ATI video card (rage fury).   I tend to run at 1280x32 so the frames are 40+ regardless of any smoking hangars.  That 750, plus an Epox 7kxa MB (VIA KX133) was < $300 as a combo over a month ago, and I highly recommend them both.  I've been very stable since putting them in.

Now back to drunken babble.

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Fat Drunk Bastards
"Never before in the field of human conflict was so little owed to so few that weighed and drank so much."

[Jigster]

I'm begining to think there's somethin weird about my TNT 1 card...

Celeron 333, 64MB Ram, and a STB Velocity 4400.

30fps under normal arena conditions at 1024 x768 x 32bit

 

- Jig

[texace]

The only problem is finding a good chip that fits the socket, as it's incompatable with the Pentium class chips. I did turn my display options under the desktop to 32 bit and that helped, but I'm looking for a good AMD chip.

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Lt. Col. Aaron "txace-" Giles of the 457th BG
    "Fait Accompli"