Another Frame Rate Thread

[hblair]

I have a friend who will be downloading AH in the next day or two. He is running an AMD 233, about 32 meg ram, and an ATI 8 meg graphics card, any ideas on the frame rate he will be getting? Will it be playable? Any tips for him to increase his FPS should it be too low? Any help is appreciated.

[Westy]

Yes. DO NOT use the hi-res option and do a  CTRL C to turn off ground clutter. No clutter will get you about 4 fps back.

-westy

[Superfly]

It might also be better to run at 800X600 instead of 640X480.  Many people have been getting better frame rates at the higher resolutions.

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[delta]

Hello,

My 0.02 cents.

My guess is this set up won't work, at least as far as a decent frame rate is concerned.

I have a P-II 350 with 64Meg. Originally it had a video card with only 4 meg.  In the begining, AH would produce decent frame rates at 640 **** until ****


I or anyone else (very important distinction here - anyone else) in my view fired guns.  The frame rate then drop to 2 or 1 or less at best.  The problem as explained to me was the use of 'fog' in the gun smoke.  

Turns out 'fog' is ***extremely*** cpu intensive and my old 4 meg video card could not handle it.

Up graded to Viper 770 with 32 meg of video memory and now AH runs as low as 21 (12 in a bomber formation) and as high as upper 30s.

Every thing sounds marginal to me:

AMD not Intel
233MHZ vice 350 MHZ
8 meg video
only 32 meg main memory.

Should be intesting.

Best of luck to your friend.  Pls post results if and when available.


delta

[BaneX]

Just some input.. I was running an AMD K6/350
with 64mg ram.. And a voodoo banshee agp card with 32mg and only getting 15-16 fps in the best of situations.

I would recommend at least getting an intel chip at the least.

I went to an Intel p2/350 and diamond steath III Extreme and am now getting between 35 -40 fps.

Hope this helps.

baneX
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[bloom25]

Unfortunately it seems that the poor floating point performance on AMD processors (except Athlon) severly limits framerate.  My friend has an AMD K6-2 350 with 8 Mb Sis6326 card.  His framerate has never gone over 20 fps.  My computer, (400 Mhz Celeron 8 mb Intel740 card) averages 30 fps when flying level, and has never dropped below 15.  (The one time it got to 15 fps was in a bomber formation of 12 b17s.)

I did manage to increase my friends frame rate by a couple fps by using DX 7a, the very latest video card drivers, and turning off ground clutter (cntl-c).  (We also tried defragmenting the hard drive, but that didn't seem to help much.)

Solution:  Buy an Intel processor, or AMD's Athlon if you want to fly AH.

[hblair]

thanx for all the help guys. We just might have to come up with him a PII or better CPU. It cost me $500 when I went that route, and I was lucky enough to trade my simms for dimms (didn't have to spend money on ram).

[sprint]

Where do you find the info on Control-C and about resolutions settings?  sprint

PS  Is their a standard to measure FPS?

[This message has been edited by sprint (edited 02-01-2000).]

[Westy]

I've picked up alot by reading the boards from day one.

But Ctrl C turns on and off your ground clutter. When you have the program runnina dn are at least in the tower do it and you'll see the message in the radio text.
Ctrl I toggles on and off your fps counter.
Is there a standard? No. But you can generally get a feel for your overall FPS in a short time if you fly a bit and keep the FPS counter on. Whenever I give out fps for reference I always state what screen resoulution I am running in AH, whether I am on the ground or in flight and if thier were/are clouds around when I take a reading.

 -Westy