Author Topic: nVidia vs ATI / Screen freezing (Read 4228 times)

Dennis · « **Reply #45 on:** May 26, 2004, 12:54:17 PM »

Played Beta 36 for first time last night.
Two sorties:
1) Upped from carrier into massive low-alt furball. Nary a stutter.
2) Flew a nearly-empty sector; intercepted two flights of B-17s. Massive 2-second-plus freeze on closing into guns range.

Frame rates have been fine for past several versions, 60-80 give or take.

Radeon 9800Pro 128mb
P4 2.8
1G ram
DirectX 9.0b
Monitor at 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Video detail settings identical to JustJim above (incl. 5 tx/fr)
Max texture size unlimited. All options checked. Gamma 1.0.

Splash1

214thCavalier · « **Reply #46 on:** May 26, 2004, 02:23:12 PM »

For freezes try putting the textures to load per frame at either 1 or approx 33% of full scale.

Seemed to help mine a lot.

dracon · « **Reply #47 on:** May 26, 2004, 02:47:18 PM »

ATI 9600XT with Omega 5.2.44 (CAT 4.5) I have tried all CATs from 3.8 on. VSYNC on AA X 4 AF Aplication Preference. Monitor refresh rate is 100 Hz. - STUTTERS, FREEZES, BUMPS.
Beta 30 worked best for me. I was playable.

I'm about to give up on the Beta again. They are no where near close to ready with this. Most of my squad can't play! I have experimented with all sliders and settings. I can't beat stutters or BAD FR's.

Notice the map we're playing. Islands. Get over Land and my FPS is running as low as 19. As soon as I get over water I am maxed out at 100 FPS. LOL! At alt. I'm better but still, when I look to the land, FR's crash, look to sea thay Max out!

To further answer you question. I bought the 9600XT for Christmas as an in between upgrade. I am building new for Christmas this year. I had always used NVIDIA. I am totally NOT impressed with ATI. The new Machine will have NVIDIA!

System Specs:
1.8 GHz ABIT TH7-II MoBo, Intel 850 Chipset
512 M RDRAM 400 FSB
ATI Radeon 9600XT with Omega CAT 4.5 drivers
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card, TBSC-4193 drivers
3 Com NIC
Cable 1.5M/200kbs
CH HOTAS and Pedals all USB
XP Pro, SP-1a

Mugzeee · « **Reply #48 on:** May 26, 2004, 04:29:26 PM »

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Originally posted by JustJim
Settings Below, Stuttering only when skinned planes are near.

Range between 50 fps in furball to 130 fps @12k

Nvidia GeForce Ti4400 128mb driver 56.64 official Nvidia.

Thanks for the Info jim.. much appreciated

Mugzeee · « **Reply #49 on:** May 26, 2004, 04:34:41 PM »

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Originally posted by dracon
ATI 9600XT with Omega 5.2.44 (CAT 4.5) I have tried all CATs from 3.8 on. VSYNC on AA X 4 AF Aplication Preference. Monitor refresh rate is 100 Hz. - STUTTERS, FREEZES, BUMPS.
Beta 30 worked best for me. I was playable.

I'm about to give up on the Beta again. They are no where near close to ready with this. Most of my squad can't play! I have experimented with all sliders and settings. I can't beat stutters or BAD FR's.

Notice the map we're playing. Islands. Get over Land and my FPS is running as low as 19. As soon as I get over water I am maxed out at 100 FPS. LOL! At alt. I'm better but still, when I look to the land, FR's crash, look to sea thay Max out!

To further answer you question. I bought the 9600XT for Christmas as an in between upgrade. I am building new for Christmas this year. I had always used NVIDIA. I am totally NOT impressed with ATI. The new Machine will have NVIDIA!

System Specs:
1.8 GHz ABIT TH7-II MoBo, Intel 850 Chipset
512 M RDRAM 400 FSB
ATI Radeon 9600XT with Omega CAT 4.5 drivers
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card, TBSC-4193 drivers
3 Com NIC
Cable 1.5M/200kbs
CH HOTAS and Pedals all USB
XP Pro, SP-1a

Thanks for the time dracon. Im sure it will get better. I have decided to wait it out till after severl betas down the road. Hopefull someone will report "Eureka"

This thread is just a way for me to try and make sense of some of the problems. Nothing more.
Thanks again !!

Mugzeee · « **Reply #50 on:** May 26, 2004, 04:38:24 PM »

I want to thank all who have taken the time to reply with your Video card info and game experience thus far.
~~!!!~~

oboe · « **Reply #51 on:** May 28, 2004, 06:21:10 AM »

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Originally posted by hitech
oboe: Where is your textures to load per frame slider set?

HiTech

oboe · « **Reply #52 on:** May 28, 2004, 06:21:10 AM »

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Originally posted by hitech
oboe: Where is your textures to load per frame slider set?

HiTech

I found I had set it to 'unlimited' - I backed in down to 3 (middle) but haven't found a big fight to test it out yet. Tho this morning was on with Mitsu a bit and I did notice a screen freeze as we rolled at right angles to each other on take off.

I'll try again tonight - thanks for your help HT!

hitech · « **Reply #53 on:** May 28, 2004, 08:06:05 AM »

oboe. Set it to 1

SlapShot · « **Reply #54 on:** May 28, 2004, 09:08:28 AM »

I was having studder problem too. I tweaked in game and also the D3D settings with no joy.

Last night I decided to revert to one verison back on my Omega drivers because I just loaded the newest version (Cat 4.5 equiv) and didnt really have studder before loading the newer drivers.

Well, going back a version made no difference so I re-installed the lastest version again. Kept my AA at 6X but changed my Ansio to 2X (was 16X). Fired up the game and no more studder. Went back to desktop and upped Ansio to 16X. Still no studder, but really saw no difference between 2X and 16X Ansio so I changed it back to 2X.

HT ... I understand what AA does for me, but what does Ansio do for us ?

ATI Radeon 9500 128M (Softmodded to 9700)

Deth7 · « **Reply #55 on:** May 28, 2004, 03:06:45 PM »

as far as win98SE I'm runnin 768meg of ram
It will handle a gig max all you have to do is type the following
under vcache in windows (system file)

[vcache]
MaxFileCache=524288

And the caps are important I think so must be exactly as above

oboe · « **Reply #56 on:** May 29, 2004, 06:55:00 AM »

I set the graphic detail back to defaults, this included setting the Textures to Load slider back to 1. Still get the periodic screen freezes. I set AA and Anisotropic filter down to 2x, but that didn't seem to help either.

Found a fair sized furball last night and the screen froze for about 1/2 second a time pretty regularly. Lots of warping going on too, check my ping details and it was about 30, with no packet loss.