Getting ready to order new PC.

[Stone]

It is here

Also got new joystick. Thrustmaster top gun afterburner II.
It is much biger than I thought, looks and feels great. I hope I like it, and get used to the ruder, so I dont have to buy pedals.

Oh no, the PC is not quiet at all

Oh well, it does not mater for AH, cos I use a headset.

But when surffing it is loud Grr and Nexus claims the case to be quiet.

Enabled cool&quiet, but cant notice any difference.

I do some tests and post them here, in case some one is interested.

Is there some "standard test" I could do?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

A 'quiet' case won't do you any good if you leave the stock cooler on the CPU. That's going to whine like a jet engine.

[Stone]

Actualy the AMD64 CPU fan is quiet.

It rather the PSU and mostly GPU fan that is noicy.

[Stone]

Ok, new PC has (once again) arrived.
Hope it works this time. I had to send it back next day two weeks ago, as there was memory erros on it.

I am now running memtest86, before I do anything else.

Im sure it will work this time.

So I will post the frame rates I get with this PC later today.

I did try AH2 on a "power laptop" at work, and got very nice frame rates. It was nailded at 59 most of the time (off line) but when flying over the field, frames was down to 35, wich is very good I think?

HP nw somthing and Dell M70 I think was the power laptops we played on.

So I have high hopes for the AMD64 + GF 7600GT

[Stone]

Yeah finaly. It is alive IT IS ALIVE.

No problems with the PC phew.

I set  sliders on max and fly any resolution.

Flying off line frames are mostly maxed to 85fps, refresh rate of CTR.
When flying around the field, the frames can drop to 60FPS, and that is no problem. Game play is smooth, that is the most important thing imo.

So it seems the PC is fast enough for the game.

Well have to get an online furball to confirm, but hey, the sliders are maxed now

[Stone]

In furball the new PC is a bit under powered

Get shutters and frames drop to 20fps. A bit dissapointing realy.
Was hoping for smooth play doh.

I guess it is the CPU that is limiting factor, not the GPU?

Also game stops briefly now and then, when I close in for the ki.. ouch over shoot

Well I did instal the hirez pack, so I will re-install the game without hi-res and try 512 textures.

I must be blind or sumting, but I can't realy see any huge difference in eye candy with hirez texutres and AA & AF on or off. Im sure there is some difference, but I just dont notice it while playing.

Any tweaking suggestions for AH2 are welcome

I have not even installed AntiVirus yet, and run XP built in firewall.

I did "tweak" the following.
- Put swap on c: off and set swap as 2048 on  e: (partition)
- Set inet and temp&tmp to e:\temp
- Optimized OS eye candy for speed
- Turned off indexing
- Defragged

So prety basic, and I doubth any of those realy has any effect on FPS anyway

But in non furball the frames are mostly caped at 85FPS. I hope to get rid of the mini freezes when closing in on new graphics, by removing hirez pack.

Or maybe it is the integrated sound that slows down action in furball?

[eagl]

Pull textures back to 512 and lower the in-game graphics sliders a bit.  Then turn on 2xQ or 4x FSAA.  Don't bother turning on ansiotropic filtering, but antialiasing will make the game look a lot nicer.  Try the new TRAA (transparancy antialiasing) modes and see if you can get playable framerates with that.

The 7xxx series nvidia cards have several FSAA modes so give them all a try.  They do different things, all cause a different framerate hit, but with 512 textures, 1280x1024 resolution, and with the in-game sliders turned down a bit, you should have no problem using antialiasing.

[jtdragon]

I found that going from 2800 AMD at 1.8 to a 3200 OC to 2.2 made a world of differents in AH II.
Have a 3.20 P4 now and have run 3 different VC's on it with about the same FR. X600XL/7600 GT OC/7900 GT OC. slider's at 1/2 to 3/4.
THE CPU IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR AH'