Author Topic: Frames (Read 500 times)

cav58d · « **on:** June 30, 2006, 12:40:05 AM »

at most, all I can produce is 75 frames/second...What is limiting this? Vid card? Monitor?

OOZ662 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:40:57 AM »

Your monitor refresh rate is set to 75 Hz.

cav58d · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:57:53 AM »

how do I turn it up?

cav58d · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:59:20 AM »

well that sucks...apparantly my monitors max refresh rate is 75, unless im looking at the wrong tab

OOZ662 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:59:33 AM »

Eh, I'm not to sure, myself...I have mine locked at 60.

Try the usual way; Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced...>Monitor>Refresh Rate

cav58d · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2006, 01:02:51 AM »

yea max 75...ooz...whats the best resolution for running AH? Currently im at 800 x 600....

ujustdied · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2006, 01:31:03 AM »

heh mine runs beautiful at 42 anything above or below is laggy.

OOZ662 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:08:59 AM »

I've always run 1024x768, myself. Higher res = More work on the card = Possibly ess frames.

cav58d · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:32:00 AM »

so the 800 x 600 isnt the "best" to run?

Birddogg · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:59:12 AM »

800x600 is pretty low..

I run 1280X1024 and 2X antialiasing, at 85hz refresh rate(about mid level performace). Things look pretty good, i can see more in view and objects are sharper and more visible at distance..
Now, someone who has the latest hardware could prolly turn it up to 1600x1200 + 8Xanti aliasing and that would make things look reaaal sharp.

LYNX · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:23:24 AM »

Depending on the strength of your vidio card it's well worth trying 1024 x 768. Also make your monitor the same resolution. Then when you start AH try 512. If thats ok try the next 1 up. By the way 76 FPS is more than enough to play the game. Under 35 fps things can get stuttery.

I liken it to drag racing. 76fps is more than enough for a 1/4 mile run but if you want that extra 1/2 a second it could cost you thousands.

Edbert1 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:27:50 AM »

This should probably get moved to the HW forum but every frame rate figure you see that is over the refresh of the monitor is not "real". I often seen frames at or above 200, biggest I ever saw was 285 looking up at clear sky, but in-game it is usually 120-150, it might dip into the 90s with flame and smoke and many contacts. But since my monitor only runs 85 at that resolution the huge FR numbers are meaningless.

ETA: I run at 1024X768 4X-AA on an X800-Pro, I also have 4GB of fast RAM so I turn off paging entirely and pre-load textures.

Balsy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 01, 2006, 12:16:54 PM »

Depending on the card 800x600 might actually be worse than higher res's .

The Fugitive · « **Reply #13 on:** July 01, 2006, 03:17:13 PM »

I've read that the human eye can't see anything faster than 40-45 fps, but on the other hand if your refresh rate is below 65, most people get headaches looking at there monitors for long periods of time. The trick is to have it steady.

Set your refresh rate at 75-85 in both the computer monitor settings as well as the game settings. Most of the newer card run 512 resolution BETTER than the 256. I couldn't get it steady at 50 fps set on 256, but have no trouble running steady at 75 fps at 512 (9800 pro 128 meg card ) I thought that if I used the lower textures I could run the graphic higher... more eye candy... but it turned out it was much better on the higher res.

The antialiasing is what kills most cards. The higher the number the more smoothing you get, but its makes your card work for it. Best thing to do is to try different settings and see works best for your set-up.

I run 1280x1024 with the 512 res, and have my sliders turned up to about 80-90% graphics side in the game and run pretty steady at 75 fps. Your milage may vary

OOZ662 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 01, 2006, 05:06:55 PM »

3.0C GHz Northwood, "unlocked" GF6800, 1.5 GB DDR400 RAM here. Running 1024 textures preloaded into RAM with full sliders and 4x AA at 65 FPS in all locations except the Tiger turret (that's a bug, ain't it?).