Author Topic: New 4 in 1 Drivers Increased my FPS in WW2OL..Might Help Here (Read 502 times)

hardcase · « **Reply #15 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:12:39 PM »

I will run win98se as long as it is as stable for me as it is now. Once you get it tweaked correctly the OS is perfect for gaming.

I run a

xp2100
asus a7v333
1 gig of 2700 mem
leadtek geforce 4 128 meg
40 gig ata 100 Seagate
Sony DVD CD Rom(RW is on the 1.3 amd)
19" Sony

HC

hardcase · « **Reply #16 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:13:57 PM »

Eagl, you realize that increase is ~10% of your FPS.

HC

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:17:24 PM »

I'm with Hardcase.... 98 is a better OS for gaming than 2000 or XP.
-SW

eagl · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:22:10 PM »

HC,

Sure, 400 pts is 10% increase but it's not of FPS, it's of a composite score in 3dmark so it's not exactly a 10% FPS increase. I've gotten bigger increases by adding 5 mhz to my FSB or 30 mhz to my vid card

hardcase · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:40:37 PM »

Duh..you're right. Early in morning for me.

HC

beet1e · « **Reply #20 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:42:33 PM »

AKS\/\/ulfe -

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98 is a better OS for gaming than 2000 or XP.

Agreed, but I was thinking of W-Me. That's what I use for gaming, and W2000-Pro for everything else. I have two HDDs and switch between the two OS by altering the Boot sequence in the BIOS each time. It's a bit of a pain at first, but it always works. I have 512MB of SDRAM, 1.2GHz processor with SDRAM speed at 100MHz, clock multiplier = 12 ie not overclocked. A7V133 Asus board (KT133A chipset) and VIA 4.36 mobo drivers. Not the latest, but they advise only to upgrade if you're having problems, and my system is rock solid. The vid card is Elsa Gladiac Ultra GeForce 2 - frame rate in Aces High = 60-80, but drops to 30-40 - especially when there's a heavily damaged airfield in view.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #21 on:** November 25, 2002, 12:47:12 PM »

And Windows Me is keerap....

XP is better than Me for everything.

98 is better than Me for everything too.... that was an OS that M$ never should of forced upon the public.

-SW

beet1e · « **Reply #22 on:** November 25, 2002, 01:02:01 PM »

Really? What's bad about it? I've never had a single problem in over a year.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #23 on:** November 25, 2002, 01:06:35 PM »

The whole thing... memory management was supposed to be improved, it's actually worse.. In terms of speed, it slower than 98 and has more overhead.
-SW

hardcase · « **Reply #24 on:** November 25, 2002, 01:07:47 PM »

read the article in PC World about tech support. It was one of their questionaire things they asked ppl. The techies say that ME has caused more slowdowns at tech centers than anything. Just too many problems with it.

HC

eagl · « **Reply #25 on:** November 25, 2002, 01:12:20 PM »

My wife's laptop has winme on it... It hangs more than any other non-broken computer I've ever used. I had to let her go on a business trip with it "as is" because I couldn't afford to goof up before the trip, but when she gets back I'll probably put winXP home on it. I'd use win98SE but I'd rather not re-install the whole OS and applications, so we'll start by trying a winXP upgrade (after backing everything up of course...)

I game with a well tuned and reasonably clutter-free win98SE installation. It works great and I've seen uptimes of over a week with no stability problems, but I have noticed that when hosting AH H2H for more than about 12 hours there's a chance of the computer hanging. I don't know if this is a problem with AH or win98, but I had zero problems like this before I started hosting AH H2H arenas for extended periods of time.

beet1e · « **Reply #26 on:** November 25, 2002, 01:21:26 PM »

Well I am surprised. I've upgraded the PCs of about 4 different friends from 98 to W-Me, and none has reported any problems whatsoever. The only comment I would make is that in every case I was starting with a clean registry - HDD reformat, and then installation using the boot diskette then the CD. Perhaps W-Me is not so good if installed over the top of anything else?

SaburoS · « **Reply #27 on:** November 25, 2002, 02:01:21 PM »

Thanks for the tip!!!!
Up until now my comp would lock up everytime I would try to use Voice in AH. I updated the Via and C-Media drivers and now it works! WooHoo!
S!
<---One happy camper

SaburoS · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2002, 02:08:02 PM »

eagl,
When hosting AH H2H, stay in your plane parked in the hangar (or anywhere for that matter). Longest I have had my H2H arena up was about 76 hrs straight since I have been parking my plane. I also used to have the game take a dump if I had stayed in the tower (guess the game doesn't have to track you if you're not out on the field of play.)