Author Topic: so, what IS a good framerate ?? (Read 1543 times)

Goner · « **on:** December 04, 2001, 08:58:00 AM »

see a lot of posts with tips to get a better FPS, but what is a good FPS ??

i get low 30's to mid/high 40's depending on the 'environment' ... using an AMD 1GHz with 512Mb and a GeForce2 MX with 32Mb and the 7.78 Detonators.

Goner

Nifty · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2001, 09:51:00 AM »

what's the resolution and color depth? That's kinda important when talking about your framerate.

sprint · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2001, 10:00:00 AM »

45 fps pretty steady at 45 except thru smoke

C600 oc to 933
Vipper 770 Ultra 32 megs
4.02's Drivers
256 ram
monitor refresh rate 100
16 bit
Max Frame Rate Button ... set to 45
1280x1024
DX8.1

Next spring I'll buy the latest GeForce

sprint

[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: sprint ]

Goner · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2001, 10:15:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Nifty:
what's the resolution and color depth? That's kinda important when talking about your framerate.

1024x768 & 32bit color for desktop and AH.

Goner

popeye · « **Reply #4 on:** December 04, 2001, 11:44:00 AM »

I get high 70's to low 80's most of the time, never below 50.

I think anything over 30 is fine, as long as it doesn't drop lower than mid 20's in crowds, smoke, clouds, over carriers, etc.

[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: popeye ]

K West · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2001, 12:58:00 PM »

"I get high 70's to low 80's most of the time, never below 50."

OMG. I wish!!!

Westy

(and I concur. mid 20's would be worst case. Actually anything lower than mid 30's impacts your gameplay. And anything below mid 20's and you're not even playing the same game.)

aztec · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2001, 01:22:00 PM »

I'd say Popeye pretty much nailed it.
I'm averaging in the 70's with low 90's and mid 60's depending on the graphic load at any given time.

ECS K7S5A
1.4 T-Bird
512 MB DDR
GeForce 2 Ultra/ 21.83 Drivers
SoundBlaster Live
98SE
DX 8.1
32Bit 1024x768 85Hz Refresh

[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: aztec ]

Nifty · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2001, 01:38:00 PM »

Goner, you're doing about what I'd expect from the MX card. Try getting some newer drivers though, it might help performance a little bit. Anyways, you're doing just fine for a 32mb card with low (relatively speaking) mem bandwidth.

Nifty · « **Reply #8 on:** December 04, 2001, 01:44:00 PM »

oh, and westy and others are right. as long as you're in the 30's, you're good to go.

Basically, as long as it's playable to you, you're ok. Anything more is just gravy on the taters.

Lephturn · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2001, 02:53:00 PM »

Don't listen to Nifty unless you are ready to swap drivers for hours if something breaks. Stick with the 7.78's unless something is horribly broken is my advice. You seem to be getting fine speed out of it now. Risking Experimental drivers could break something.

Goner · « **Reply #10 on:** December 04, 2001, 03:01:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Lephturn:
[QB]Don't listen to Nifty unless you are ready to swap drivers for hours if something breaks. [QB]

hehe ...

i actually tried a couple of the newer drivers some time back and had nothing but problems ; crashes, hangs, the works ...
so i went back to 6.50 and am slowly working my way up to see where it ends.
7.97 get good press too, i might try 'm

Goner

mrsid2 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 04, 2001, 03:55:00 PM »

Actually I've found out that older detonators work better / faster in old tech cards like GF2 MX.

I was running fps starting from 17fps (full blown up field and smoke) to 75fps (flying over arena without clouds, other players didn't affect fps much.) with my Elsa Gladiac MX + 1.4gig AMD + msi k7266pro2.

Now I got Leadtek GF3 Ti200 and fps never dips under 60, if v-sync is disabled fps hovers around 100 and even 200+ if looking at the clear sky.

The MX would have been _perfectly_ good for playing without the massive fps hit from smoke.. If HT would find a way to code the smoke so that it would be easyer for the cards, many people would be playing AH with much more lower-end systems.

bloom25 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 04, 2001, 04:42:00 PM »

Anything over 35 fps and I have a hard time telling any difference.

My system gets 60 - 75 fps and drops to about 40 fps in smoke.

Tbird 1.3 Ghz @ 1313 Mhz
384 Mb PC 133 Ram
GF 2 Gts (32MB) using 21.83 drivers.

(I do agree with Leph though, you don't get much of a performance difference for the potential headaches the 21 and 22 series drivers bring. The later 7.xx series drivers have good performance and the fewest bugs. )

qts · « **Reply #13 on:** December 05, 2001, 02:09:00 PM »

I turned off clutter and get 50+ fps on my V5 5500 equipped dual 1 GHz P3. This is with x2 FSAA.

[ 12-05-2001: Message edited by: qts ]

weazel · « **Reply #14 on:** December 05, 2001, 03:37:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Lephturn:
[QB]"Don't listen to Nifty unless you are ready to swap drivers for hours if something breaks"QB]

If you know how to use Win98 system tools correctly you can driver swap as much as you like.

I always run regedit to export the registry and scanreg to back-up WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI in case the drivers FUBAR.