Radar Blips - In Color?

[DamnedRen]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
I'm running a dual boot  win98se sp 1.5 (tweeked out )

and  W2K pro  (still learning its tweeks) but ive been playing on w2k w/ ntfs format  .. my fps picked up from 85 fps (win 98) to 135 fps (w2k )  4.12 omega's set at stock 9600 pro clocking  400 vgp 300 ram speed  on my card .

look for the 4.12 omega    standard  (Dont use the beta 4.12's)


http://www.omegadrivers.net/archive.php

Don't quote me on this I had heard if you turn of the vert sync you end up with outrageuos FR's but you can   "lose" half of some frames. They are not dropped packets, you just lose them. With Vert sync on you may only go as fast as the monitors refresh rate (mine happens to be set to 85 but will go to 100Hz) but you never lose parts (up to half the pict frame). I had vert sync off and was getting 200 a few days ago but there was some tearing and something wasn't right, which may have been my losing partial frames.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Actually, you can never physically see frame rates faster than your monitor's refresh rate anyway.  Regardless of whether or not Vsync is on.  Vsync just forces the video card to keep reported fps within the boundaries of your refresh rate.  It also prevents the tearing and artifacts and such that you noticed.  What happens is the video card gets so far ahead of what is actually being shown on the screen that it has to pause to allow what is actually being rendered on the screen to catch up.  If the CPU happens to be under a heavy load also, you'll get little freezes and warps and screen tears because things get out of whack.

People like turning it off because it makes them feel good to see big numbers on their frame rates.  They think they have gained some sort of performance increase.

[Roscoroo]

true ... with vsync off i go way thru the roof 200+fps and the buffs warp all over the place .  ( i swaped monitors thats why i get alot higher hz /fps then befor "Silicon grafics " )