Author Topic: Smoke and Flames (Read 1101 times)

Darkish · « **Reply #15 on:** May 06, 2005, 08:18:41 AM »

Well, it is the topic of the thread.. as I said in my first post, game runs smooth apart from this one exception; a heavily smoking plane.

What I don't understand is that if I run the game at its lowest settings, surely this eliminates the possibilty of the vid card being thrashed.

I posted the 600x480 only because this was the lowest settings I tried out. I did indeed try ALL settings from this resolution up to 1280x1024 with AAx2, no AF and texture sizes of 128,256 and 512. No joy.

SkyWolf · « **Reply #16 on:** May 06, 2005, 10:03:25 AM »

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Originally posted by Elyeh
Did I say off a smoking bomber? No... I said my FPS were at 100+.

I was under the impression that your "real" FPS couldn't be any faster than your monitor's refresh rate.

Woof

AKDogg · « **Reply #17 on:** May 06, 2005, 11:40:40 AM »

FPS can be higher then refresh rate if you have VSync turn off.

Elyeh · « **Reply #18 on:** May 06, 2005, 01:14:29 PM »

Darkish,
I understand the topic of the thread...
Looking at your sys specs, which are almost identical to mine,
I really think you should be getting way better FPS than 58 (before you smoke the bomber).

I was using the latest and greatest Catalayst drivers and was getting in the 60's

I then downloaded the newest Omega divers and FPS shot through the roof.

I'm just wondering if you uninstalled the ATI control panel before you installed the omega drivers?

If you didnt, the omega drivers will not work the way they should and cause problems.

I really think with your system and vid card you should have no problems at all. Sounds like the ATI driver is trying to control your omega driver.

when I get home from work I'll duplicate your screenshots and post what I come up with.

Just trying to help

Darkish · « **Reply #19 on:** May 06, 2005, 02:05:44 PM »

I appreciate that Elyeh.

I have never installed ATI's control panel, the 9800 was not the generic card that came with this PC. The original drivers (fx5200) have been cleaned out with Driver Cleaner.

However, I did forget to mention that the above screenies were taken on the OzKanzas map, which me for a least, gives me the biggest performance hit.

Elyeh · « **Reply #20 on:** May 06, 2005, 02:53:01 PM »

Ok I'll load that one up and see what happens

Elyeh · « **Reply #21 on:** May 07, 2005, 11:29:30 AM »

Using the OzKanzas map, FPS where down a tad but not much.
After getting the bomber smoking, i trailed the bomber to get an FPS avg. Did the same in the beginning.

Now if I can just figure out how to post these screenshots..
Its says under forum rules you may not post attachments.....
How do I change this?

Elyeh · « **Reply #22 on:** May 07, 2005, 02:04:18 PM »

http://www.sendpix.com/albums/05050711/40v4gun5fu/

Ok here are the screen shots
once you select a pic, click on it and it will open larger