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Offline FOGOLD

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« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2002, 07:37:46 AM »
I have noticed only a slight drop in framerates, if at all . I installed the new version from the website rather than the autoinstaller.

The only problem I have which I had before is that when the stall horn goes too much my Ms FF stick goes limp untill I re up!

1800xp
512Mb ram
Geforce 3ti500
21.83 drivers
DX 8.1
Audigy Player Latest XP drivers
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Offline awcajnn

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« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2002, 08:27:58 AM »
Welp I updated my sound card driver, double checked that I have the latest Video driver, I have DX 8.1 and got on last night with the same low fps.

I noticed that AH Voice didn’t seem to affect my fps. When I upped from a base where there were no other friendlies my fps was the same as bases with 4 or 5 friendlies.

It looks like the new version sucked the last bit of extra power my feeble machine had last. Plans are in the works (read: beggin the wife) for a new machine :D

cajnn
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Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2002, 09:05:43 AM »
Lost up to 20 fps... truly discouraging :(

Win 98 SE
Athlon 800 MHz
640 MB RAM PC 100
GeForce 3 Ti 500 Graphic Card with latest official drivers
Audigy eX Soundcard
2 MBit DSL connection via an Ethernet card

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« Reply #33 on: March 20, 2002, 09:25:47 AM »
DX8.1
21.81
Gainward GF3 Ti200

sprint
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PS> I did a full re-installed
« Last Edit: March 20, 2002, 09:50:00 AM by sprint »
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Offline ergRTC

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« Reply #34 on: March 20, 2002, 09:45:41 AM »
For those that lost fps, did you install go smoothly?  Or did it abort?

Also, on my work computer (win2000) i could not get the game to work with the 23.11 det drivers.  I had to go and dig up an old diamond viper ultra 770 driver from a couple years ago.

At work it is a viper ultra 770 32mb on a 800mhz amd thunderbird
256megs sdram
4gb harddrive.
fps
26 in tower
30-50 out the front on runway
75 looking up
Not sure if it experienced a drop, but I doubt it.
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Offline Don

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« Reply #35 on: March 20, 2002, 12:19:11 PM »
I logged on for a few last night. There were well over 400 in the MA last night. People leaving? Hmmm I fail to notice :D
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Offline Nath[BDP]

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« Reply #36 on: March 20, 2002, 03:25:11 PM »
I have been using the 21.83 drivers since before 1.09, anything newer than that caused me other probs in AH, like sound clicking and small freeze frames.
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Offline Lizard3

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« Reply #37 on: March 20, 2002, 07:09:28 PM »
I lost 10 to 20 fps, but its still playable.

My system is:
Duron 650 OC 950
Asus A7V
256 Mb sdram 133
Visiontek GF3 Ti200 64mb
20Gb ATA100
crappy robotics -I think- winmodem(48k+ connect, 100yrds from    a southeast area main trunk :D)
3 or 4 year old yamaha sound card

Win ME

I had a smooth install from the download page.

I also updated all drivers within the last month.
« Last Edit: March 20, 2002, 07:12:21 PM by Lizard3 »
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Offline kkierste

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« Reply #38 on: March 20, 2002, 08:22:18 PM »
Don't forget to consider that 400 in MA could be 50 new that replaced 25 who left, and the 50 new join another 25 who'll leave, and you start seeing numbers drop.  

I didn't base my guess on MA numbers; rather, I based it on people saying they were leaving the game and then leaving it.


(I hope it all gets worked out; not trying to promote an epidemic)
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Offline Kutt

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« Reply #39 on: March 21, 2002, 09:21:07 AM »
This worked for me no warranties implied or expressed. If it doesn't work for you, or smoke starts pouring out of your machine that's your business not mine.  

Here's what I saw before...

Specs 512M ram, AMD 1.8, Geforce 4 MX 440, and Soundblaster Audigy Sound Card. Running XP, with the Nvidia reference drivers that are certified from their site, as well as the latest Audigy drivers from the Soundblaster site.

I run in 1200 resolution 32 bit color.

AH ver 1.08 min 30 FPS about over a huge furball at a smoking field. 75 FPS (limited by monitor refresh rate) most of the time in average flying conditions.

AH ver 1.09 min 15 FPS max mid-40's FPS.

My solution...

I went to http://www.guru3d.com, I went into their drivers section and downloaded the 27.70 ver of the windows XP Detonator drivers, downloaded the Via 4.10b AGP driver for my motherboard, I manually turned off anti-aliasing by going into the control panel for the video card, and turned the sound acceleration down to half.

I made the first mistake in trouble shooting, by changing all of these things at once. Forgive me I was getting tired of the slide show every time I was flying near any field on fire.

The Result...

45 FPS per second in the absolute worst possible flying conditions. 30 + planes everything on fire (Rooks got all cranky that we vulched their field so they came over and egged our house) 75 FPS every other time I looked at the counter.

I didn't do any more testing than that. I was just happy to have fluid frame rates again. Hopefully, this may help some of you.
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Offline ergRTC

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« Reply #40 on: March 21, 2002, 09:26:06 AM »
WTG kutt!  Your the first positive story I have seen on this yet!
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« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2002, 11:03:57 AM »
I have experienced a fps drop from mid 20's to 6-10fps with ver 1.09. amd k6-2 533 mhz
         g-4 mx 420 pci graphics 64 mb
          256 mb ram
          on board sound (ess allegro)
          dial up conn.

 I have tried to install the det drivers but they wont install because the installation program finds a pci device it cant identify I suspect this might be a pci bridge device. also the video card shares irq 5 with the onboard sound neither of which i can change. I just upgraded to the g-4 card from a voodoo 3 card with no improvement in performance. also my frame rates are the same offline as online. as far as game play goes I sometimes run ah on a machine that gets 70+ fps and I still suffer the effects of lag, it's a smoother nicer lag but it still slows down to a crawl in a big furball. unperk the f4u-1c!
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Offline kkierste

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« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2002, 12:33:50 PM »
Ok, I'm replacing this...

AMD K6-2 300
196MB PC 133 RAM
32 MB GeForce 256 Based Elsa Erazor X with dedicated IRQ (11)
AOpen 56k PCI data-fax-voice
MB is AX59 PRO (AOpen) with Via Mvp chipset
SB Live! (Brand new)

with this

AMD xp 1800
256MB PC333 on a Gigabyte 7vrx KT333
XP home
nVidia GeForce2 Mx-400 64MB agp

Here come's the judge...



Will post results when I get system
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Offline Ripsnort

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« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2002, 03:04:45 PM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort


(Incidently, historically when a new release comes out, you'll see patches later on where Pyro or HT says "We found a bug that may have been affecting FPS"...so just be patient)


See?  You should trust ol' Ripsnorts advice! Read below...

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14. Got the FPS back to what it used to be or slightly more. The addition trains and convoys in the new
                            terrains was effecting FPS substantively. We optimized this section of code to work more with the objects
                            only in visible range.
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Offline MrLars

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« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2002, 04:20:25 PM »
PIII 800
ASUS CSLU-2
150mhz FSB
512mb PC133 .8ns
gForce3 Ti200
Det 23.11 drivers
WINMODEM PCI   230ms average
SB16 latest drivers

After an OS and AH partition reformat my frame rate went up 10-15%. Now typicaly 75 tower, 65-75 inflight, 25 minimum at a smoky vulched field.

I am interested in what difference a usb modem would do for my frame rates.
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