Author Topic: What's Up with Improving Frame Rate? (Read 2085 times)

214thCavalier · « **Reply #15 on:** February 20, 2004, 01:36:36 PM »

Using a Radeon 9800 Pro, below is my video8.cfg file.

104712,VideoVersion
1600,Width
1200,Height
32,ColorDebth
1,DeviceCnt
DVRADEON 9800 PRO
0,MaxFPS
1,MipMapEnabled
0,DisablePalettizedTextures
0,PixelShaders
0,VertexShaders
0,MaxTexSize
31,OptionFlags
0.2,LOD
0.2,ObjSize
1.00,Gamma

Biggest frame rate hitters are the LOD and Object size options.
I run them both at 0.2 and get approx 50 fps on the runway.

May need to check but i seem to recall the Radeons are faster in DX9 but for DX8 they match the Nvidia cards.

Unfortunately AH2 is going to be DX8, whether this is the cause of percieved slow fps on Radeon systems remains to be seen.

However one oddity remains and that is the fps barely alters no matter whether resolution is 1024, 1280, 1600 or 1920.

Phantom4 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 20, 2004, 03:01:02 PM »

Agree 100% with Cav - my findings exactly - on Radeons resolution has virtually no effect ( well 9500 and above.)

oh and my LOD and Objsize are .5 - seems to be the break point -above this framerate falls rapidly

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 20, 2004, 05:50:40 PM »

50 on the rwy
everything standard 32 bit 1280x1024

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #18 on:** February 21, 2004, 12:52:25 AM »

Got a 128 meg GForce FX 5200
One thing I've noticed is I seem to get better FR online then offline.
Offline I get between 20-30 FPS and online (in flight) it jumps to 59-63
Also I noticed over the years from playing AW and AH is the amount of background tasks you have running seem to effect framerates. Sometimes substantialy.
Try getting rid of a bunch of the background tasks you dont need running at startup and see if it helps.
Stuff like "Real Player", Quicktime" and the like do not need to be running for your system to run and will work just fine when you actually want to use them.
Basically what I like to have is only the amount of background tasks running needed for my system to run and be online. Everything else I prefer to have turned off.

Also Screen savers, wallpaper and Icons all take up system resources. and effect how fast your system runs.
If you like many folks have a desktop screen loaded with little Icons. Try putting them into organised folders. Reduce the amount of Icons you have on your desktop screen and you can see up to a 10-15% system resource boost

I've found that all these things can effect gameplay including framerates.

Siaf__csf · « **Reply #19 on:** February 21, 2004, 02:46:40 AM »

It's the name!!

Remember WW(2)OL?

Now its AH(2) and *poof* slow framerates.

Am I right or am I right?

gatt · « **Reply #20 on:** February 21, 2004, 04:32:38 AM »

Thx Cavalier,
I'll give a try to your settings ....