My frame rate is usally mid 40s to 50s. Last week while in flight my frame rates dropped to the lower 20s. in smoke its down in the lower teens sometimes
I reinstalled vid drivers, DirectX8, the game, to no avail.
Installed directx9 and it seemed to work for a few hours then boom! Right back in half my frame rates.
My system checks well on benchmark and pc health programs and I am running out of things to do.
I loaded Rage3d tweaks but I dont know the best settings for AH
I am now on the edge of putting money into a new pc or card and its probably just a setting
heres my specs and settings,
thanks in advance for your input,
Tommy
running windows 98 SE latest drivers for vids and directx9 (now)
in game settings mitmappin on, palette textures off, 800x600, 32 colors
display settings are the same. mitmapping does not seem to effect FRs at all...
soundcard is on half speed (now) and graphic speed is 3/4 speed (as always)
open GL antialiasing disabled, fast write off, 4x agp speed
System Board ECS K7S5A 1.0
Processor AMD Athlon
Nominal Clock Speed 1000 MHz
Measured Clock Speed 1000 MHz
External Clock Speed 66 MHz
CPU Load 2%
Level 1 Cache 128 KB
Level 2 Cache 256 KB
RAM installed 384 MB
Windows RAM 384 MB
Total RAM slots 4
Max RAM module size 128 MB
Memory Type 256+128+00+00;|DIMM|SDRAM|;T5
Level 1 Cache 128 KB
Level 2 Cache 256 KB
Description Drive C
Partition format FAT32
Cluster size 32 KB
Size 38921 MB
Free space 32702 MB (84%)
Data fragmentation 11%
File fragmentation 1%
Cached speed 145.05 MB/s
Uncached speed 3.47 MB/s
disk
Brand/Model SAMSUNG SV4084H_
IDE details Master, DMA
_(Standard hard disk drivers) Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)_
(Standard hard disk drivers) Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)_Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 5513 Dual PCI IDE Controller_
Video Board
RADEON 7200 SERIES
Resolution 800x600 pixels
Colors 16 million
DirectX version 4.09.00.0900
OpenGL version 4.00
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Monitor IBM 6558 P202
Max. Horizontal Resolution 1600 pixels
Max. Vertical Resolution 1200 pixels
Horizontal Size 40 cm
Vertical Size 30 cm
Viewable Diagonal Size 19.69 inch
thanks again