any "OFFICAL" word on FPS fix?

[Kratzer]

probably nothing - you can share IRQs.  If everything works, then everything works, so don't mess with it.

[R4M]

wow, I have my video card on IRQ 11...just the same as the modem and another thing I dont have a clue on what it is (and can't tell in english cause my system is in spanish)

how does one change the IRQ settings?

Thanks in advance.

[214thCavalier]

Video driver: ASUS AGP-V7700 Deluxe v6.31c
AGP in Default mode (x2)
AGP appeture set to 128
Video BIOS cache ON  (SET THIS OFF)
Video RAM cache ON   (SET THIS OFF)
Sideband ON
Vsync OFF            (SET THIS ON)
Frames rendered ahead set to 1  (Better at 3)

Other suggestions in AH video setup tick mip maps ON and palletised textures OFF.
Them palletised textures cripple even my 1.4 Gig with a GF2 Ultra.

The reason for turning off caching of your Video cards Bios and Ram is ever since the TNT vid card Nvidia have recommended you switch them options off as the dedicated memory on board the card performs better than sharing your cache memory.

[milnko]

Thanks for the help fellas. I reformatted and reinstalled all drivers and made some changes to BIOS and vis settings, haven't tried it online yet tho.

[Westy MOL]

Ditto. Thanks Skuzzy for the reply. I disabled the COM ports and that freed up IRQ's 3 and 4. Now off to get either the USB or the Ethernet card off of the shared IRQ  

Westy

[Wobble]

on the IRQ thing.. if have Win2k or 2pro, and you are sharing lots of IRQs its probably because your computer is running in ACPI mode.. in device manager click computer, of its says ACPI or anything else, double click that and go to update driver and changed it to 'standard pc' that after reboot you will need to reinstal some drivers, but everything will have its own IRQ automatically.

ACPI tries to save as many IRQ numbers as possable.. and lumps many devices on to one..
after changing it I went from 29fps to 37fps.. sitting on runway in P51 in 1600x1200x32.