Very weird. My cII566 @707 crapped out some time ago, so I've bought a PIII 1Ghz. Couldn't afford a full motherboard/ram/cpu upgrade, so I just bought the fastest CPU my current motherboard can take.
Tried Medal of Honour - Allied Assault. HUGE difference: am actually getting more than 10fps, and can play with graphics settings very high. VERY big increase in performance.
The problem is, in Aces High, there's really no difference - at 1280*1024 and 32 bit, sitting on the runway I get 26 fps. That's the same or even slightly worse than before. Been meddling around with graphics (which seems changed for some reason), but to no avail: FPS is still low.
Graphics look different than before, but that's probably because I installed new video drivers since I figured that had to be it.
Always thought that the processor was the bottleneck: same fps at virtually all resolutions before, or close to it, except switching to 32bit, where it became a good bit slower. This was true of Rogue Spear, Medal Of Honor and other games.
But virtually NO increase in AH. Very odd. If someone can identify the bottleneck of problem for me, I'd appreciate it.
Setup:
PIII 1Ghz cpu
ASUS CUV4X (think that's the one)
384Mb 133mhz RAM
ASUS V6600 Geforce 1 32MB ram.
CH Fighterstick USB
CH Throttle analogue
SB64 PCI
GC3 gamecard
Drivers for geforce card are 23 something: dated 1-29-2001
Oddly enough, although it is 32 mb: this show up for me:
It shows 60121k available memory, but my card only has 32 mb! Bug in AH?
There's also something I best can describe as 'stuttering' when I roll. It is very visible when I look forward-left and roll - when the landscape gets in view, it is as if the FPS is maybe 15 or less, although AH fps says "34" or something like that.
No interrupt request channel conflicts or anything.
Am also getting a 'crackling' noise in Medal of Honor when music is playing at the same time as sound effects. Had that in AH for a bit, but it went away.
The way I see it, it's either the graphics card, but that doesn't make sense, since Ah isn't much eye candy, rather more CPU intensive, or the soundcard. Somehow, the soundcard interferes with the rest of the puter.
Lastly, something I haven't quite worked out yet: Installed the CPU, everything works fine, yet when I start up, the BIOS mumbles something about CPUID not being correct and it therefore cannot update the bios. Doesn't seem related to performance issues in AH, as MOH works well, except the crackle on the voice (perhaps stutter is there too, haven't noticed)
Unfortunately, AH doesn't seem to work without a soundcard, so I haven't been able to see if that is the cause.
Any suggestions, even obvious ones, are welcome.
