Author Topic: New 4 in 1 Drivers Increased my FPS in WW2OL..Might Help Here (Read 511 times)

hardcase · « **on:** November 23, 2002, 11:21:44 PM »

My FPS took a big jump tonight in ww2ol. Only thing I did was install the 4n1s. This from AGW..

Thanks HC,

No noticable increase in WBIII (but I don't really need it in here). In WWIIOL though I saw around a 40% increase in FPS. Got rid of the stutters & lag too. Now I can finally fly in a poulated area in there.
If any of you guys play both games get these drivers helped me out.

tbird 1.13 gig
geoforce 4200 64
512 meg DDR
windows XP pro

Might as well update, might be a FPS increase in AH...Just a heads up..dont go flaming me:)

HC

beet1e · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2002, 02:03:34 PM »

Hardcase - I got a massive boost in frame rate when I migrated from DX 8.0 to 8.1. FPS went up by 100% and I was able to switch to a higher res. That still leaves me with a game frame rate in the 60-80 range most of the time. Running an Athlon 1.2GHz and VIA 4.36 drivers. Which VIA drivers are you on now, and from which version did you migrate?

hardcase · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2002, 02:38:31 PM »

I got the 4.43 drivers from

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

Nothing new in 4.43, but the 4.42 fixes are in there and they had some driver fixes. I run win98se. Some see improvement, some dont. Always worth the try anyway and we should always update.

HC

Sandman · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2002, 04:52:25 PM »

Need to keep up on this... my drivers are 4.37... thanx

eagl · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2002, 07:50:14 PM »

Where do you look to find the driver revision? I haven't upgraded my via drivers since first installation.

airspro · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2002, 08:19:17 PM »

I had 4.37 also , put the new ones in and np at all , thanks for the heads up .

eagl · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2002, 10:07:43 PM »

I installed the new drivers and without tweaking saw a 3dmark3001SE score increase of 400 points. Not a massive increase, but measurable. No other tweaks done, just reboot, run 3dmark, reboot, install via drivers, reboot, go through detected new hardware, reboot, run 3dmark.

From 4287 to 4688 with athlon 1.4, 512 meg DDR, GF2 Pro.

beet1e · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2002, 03:35:47 AM »

eagl - not sure what motherboard you have, but if you're using VIA hardware it's probably an Asus. Even if it isn't, the Asus website http://www.asus.com is excellent. I have a A7V133 mobo, and when I checked the Asus website just now, it listed 4.37 as the latest VIA drivers - probably the latest applicable to that particular board, as hardcase speaks of 4.43. To get the 4.37 drivers try clicking this link:

http://cgi.asus.com.tw/cgi-bin/dl.asp?filename=misc/utils/4in1_437.zip

Another thing worth considering is keeping the BIOS up to date. The Asus website also issues BIOS revisions. I can help anyone who wants to do that. I had to do it on a friend's PC because the old BIOS would not recognise the large capacity IBM GXP 40GB hard drive I put in there, but it was OK with the BIOS update.

Hardcase - I'm a little surprised that you want to keep bang up to date with the VIA drivers, but are still running W98SE. Have you considered upgrading the OS?

gatt · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2002, 06:45:59 AM »

D/l'ed 1.7 version and tried it offline. I have to say that fps or stutters are no more an issue for my system (P4+Radeon). YMMV of course. Nice graphic improvements as well.

I dont like the FM. I dont know if AH's one is better or not, the only thing I know is that I like a demanding FM. I dont have fun if I know that my opponent (and me) can loop and/or turn forever with a 90deg bank with full stick deflection without stall problems.

I prefer arenas where players have to watch carefully their E-state. Anyway, 1.7 looks like a BIG improvement.

eagl · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2002, 10:03:35 AM »

Beetle,

I have an ABIT KR7A-RAID.

beet1e · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:05:09 AM »

eagl - rgr that. I went first to the Abit website http://www.abit.com but it wasn't over helpful, but never mind. I then had a poke around for VIA drivers and came up with this: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2 -doh! just realised that this is the same link as Hardcase's link.

On the board you have, there is more than one chipset that might be used. You need to know the chipset when choosing the correct drivers. The above link claims to furnish chipset drivers for all VIA chipset drivers, so I suggest double checking before installing. Or check with Funked - he would know for sure.

The Abit boards are good, and that would be my 2nd choice. But I like the support provided by Asus.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:15:28 AM »

Are these motherboard drivers that you all are talking about, or vid card drivers?

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:28:08 AM »

Eagl, chances are you have the "normal" setup...

AMD north bridge, VIA south bridge... VIA 4in1s are like the Detonator drivers... takes care of many revisions of hardware in one driver package.

If you are suffering system problems, or it's slower than you think it should be, download those drivers from viaarena.com (click driver link)...

If you don't, these drivers prolly won't do much... but you can give 'em a shot.

Mickey- motherboard.
-SW

214thCavalier · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2002, 11:29:21 AM »

Motherboard (VIA based) chipset drivers.

eagl · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:11:49 PM »

It's a KT266A based board.

I tried the new 4 in 1 drivers and got a little 3DMark speedup, and I have a decent bios now so I won't mess with that. I can't mess with the BIOS much because with a RAID setup I might lose my hard drives if the BIOS messes with the RAID bios as well.