Author Topic: Frame Rate (Read 810 times)

Astro · « **on:** August 26, 2001, 07:32:00 PM »

I was reading a post about frame rates last night and it seems mine are very low. Does that have much to do with your connection?.

TIA
Dave

Rocket · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2001, 07:41:00 AM »

Dave,
Frame Rates have nothing to do with connection speed at all. Frame Per Second (FPS) has to do with your video card, processor speed and amount of memory that you have. To be flyable without stutters your FPS needs to stay above a minimum of 24 FPS. It is better to have it twice that in normal flight at least becuase once you hit smoke or get ina larger formation your FPS really drops.
Connection has to do with lag. When you see warps or planes jumping around you are experiencing lag, either on your end or the other guys end. Having a super fast modem does not cure lag as it has to do with latency not bandwidth. Heck I even played on a 9600 modem and not one person complained that I warped

But this is becuase my ISP has a pretty good route (3 hops to a backbone) to HTC. My pings are only avg but they are consistant. If you think you are having lag problems get a program like pingplotter (I don't have the URL handy sry) and have it run for a bit. You can cut and paste into a picture viewer save then post in the internet connection forum. The guy running HTC provider (Skuzzy) is the toejam with helping getting connections straightened out. He will even contact offending routers and tell them to get their stuff together

S!
Rocket

Astro · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2001, 06:59:00 AM »

Thanks Rocket. I was figuring maybe my 56K modem was a problem for this type of adventure.(new to online gaming) Anyway I'm running a P4 1.3 Ghz, 128 Meg RIMM, 32 MEG GeForce 2 MX, 19" monitor and a 7200 rpm HD. So why the heck would my frame rate be down to 28 fps.

TIA
Dave

vatiAH · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2001, 07:27:00 AM »

Astro,

Go in to your video card properties and make sure Antialiasing is turned off. FFAA will eat your frame rate right up. Thats the 1st place to start. Do that and let us know how it goes.

Vati

Astro · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2001, 09:23:00 AM »

Frame rate was better after the adjustment, about 38-44 in a dog fight above base with planes all over. The plane handles alot nicer than it did. What else can I do, any tweaks in Windows.

TIA
Dave

LePaul · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2001, 10:37:00 AM »

Question about FSAA

I just ordered and have a 3DFX Voodoo 5500 on the way. Since I do not have it here to check these things, I wanted to know what most folks are running theirs at. FSAA on? Off? I mean, I've heard rave reviews about the FSAA clearing up the images a great deal and with 2 cpus and 64 ram to boot? I mean wow! My 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 is averaging 19FPS lately (P3 550 256mb ram) and I really draw to crawl near a heavily beat up base with lots of smoke.

Any ideas on what I can expect?

Maverick · « **Reply #6 on:** August 28, 2001, 11:38:00 AM »

Lepaul,
Check your resolution on your card. At 1078 x768 I get 40 to 55 FPS and down to 25 to 30 around smoke. If I get INTO the smoke as in a GV it drops to your posted levels. I also have 128 megs ram.

Mav

LePaul · « **Reply #7 on:** August 28, 2001, 11:56:00 AM »

Im running 1280 x 1024, I know I do better if I pull it back to 1024 x 768 but the video is grainy...escpecially the chat buffer.

I'll kick it back to 1024 for a night and see if I make any substancial gains.

Guinness · « **Reply #8 on:** August 28, 2001, 12:39:00 PM »

I run a P500 128 ram and a Voodoo5.

I have aliasing off, but im pretty sure the card is very capable of it, i run it 'ok' in a game like Everquest where frame rate isnt even talked about

and game is meant for eye candy and the graphics are sweet as you like.

I run 1024x768 and dont like to go lower or higher. Any lower and the resolution can affect your aim etc, and any higher drains on my p500 which is what you have lepaul, but you got more ram maybe yours will have enough for Aliasing, but the fps will go very low in smoke.

Aliasing also does have 1 good aspect, the screenshots

Lephturn · « **Reply #9 on:** August 28, 2001, 01:56:00 PM »

I run an Athlon 700 classic with a V5 5500 on a 17" monitor.

I run AH in 1024x768 32 bit and FSAA 2x. It rocks, and looks sweet. I can't do 4x without getting too choppy on me, but 2x seems to work fine. Flying through smoke kills it bad... but I don't fly through smoke that much.

I really don't know what the framerate numbers are, I don't leave that silly counter turned on. Everything seems plenty smooth to me though, and looks very very nice.

Guinness · « **Reply #10 on:** August 29, 2001, 01:07:00 PM »

Can i borrow that extra 200mhz you got and put it on my processor please? Hehe i wanna run a little aliasing too

Really getting the feeling i need to upgrade my PC, might keep the V5 though, see what it can really do.