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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Ripsnort on December 28, 2000, 06:36:00 PM
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PIII-550 Intel chip. 256K ram. 32 meg TNT2 vid. card. System tweaked for good FR in Falcon 4. Not so in AH.
2-3 FPS around CV's firing.
7-12 FPS around fields firing at incoming A/C.
Normal flight is about 45 FPS.
Ack puffs kill FR.
CV's firing kills FR.
Simply unplayable at this point for me.
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[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 12-28-2000).]
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Can you overclock your 550? I'm running a 550 flip chip and it easily handled a 133 bus to give me a 733. Framerate seems ok or at least playable in my one encounter with the CV furball.
pageflip
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im running an Athlon 800 and a voodoo3 3000 and I have notice 0 performance decrease aroud ships or flak, something tells me there is something deeper than what many think here..
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rip my friend has p3 500, 32mb tnt2, 128mb, and he is getting maybe 7-10fps less than me with a 900 athlon, 16mb Voodoo3 3000 AGP, 128mb.
Its not your set up rip its somesort of conflicting code/Driver prob i assure you.
I think HTC run some tests on 350mhz comps with voodoo 2's and they work ok. email htc with your specs/driver vers no.s etc and ask em to suggest any changes you could make, dont give up mate it will get better.
I remember when i first put my new athlon 900 and abit KT133 raid mb with my old voodoo 3 card from my old 350mhz PII my 3Dmark was less!!! i was horrified! i thought id bought a crap FPU processor but it turned out i had a couple of old drivers sitting in my registry.there was no way id have known but i happened to notice the old drivers by accident.I reformatted HD (cause i had nothing i needed to save) and reran 3dmark....2000 point increase! 3700 odd scored (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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PS i know for sure my system could run faster but im not bothered at the moment,its fine as it is,so i put up with the strange HD accesses (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
[This message has been edited by hazed- (edited 12-28-2000).]
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Wobble, you may be right.
Seems the Voodoo guys are complaining less.
I've got a GeForce STS 32MB and it will chug a bit around the fleet fights.
Thinking I'm going to try a Voodoo myself for the heck of it.
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Maybe you guys should go back to Video settings and adjust your resolution down a bit?
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You guys with nVidea cards need to get the 6.31 drivers and use NVMax to enable the advanced driver settings. I have a Celeron 466@525 with V770 TNT2 Pro 32mb <hacked Ultra BIOS> and the only real FPS hit I see is in heavy smoke.
I`ll post my system tweaks in the Hardware forum later if you want me to.
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voodoo4 450mhz 128mb ram
runs 33fps on average...hits about 20 in fleet fights and 10's when i zoom in to the max
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Something definately wrong Rip.
1.05 entirely playable on my P2 400 with Voodoo5.
U wanna compare settings, let me know.
Vladd
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I have a p3 450 with 224 megs ram, and a 32meg savage 3d blaster card... FR in flight 40-50 around CV low 20's.. and fields firing hi to low 20's.
It must be something to do with the new version, lots of guys with better computer equipment than i having major problems...
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PII 333/mmx Viper V770 32mb Ultra (AGP and aperture in bios set to 64mb) and I'm not doing too bad. Certainly not as bad as in your report Rip (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif) Something just aint right in your system. Drivers, bus issue, something.
-Westy
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Athlon 600
128 ram
Radeon 64DDR
res 1600x1200 32bit
While I have seen a decrease in framerates when it gets hot and heavy, its still well in the smooth range at 30fps average, never below 25.
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HT was in the MA tonite talking about floating points or some s@#t like that. Its Swaheli to me. Anyway there seems to be a problem with the PII, and PIII's. I didnt catch the beginning of this discourse or the end Ias things heated up for me at that moment. I have a PIII 800 256 sdram FBS @ 133.Oh and a Voodoo 5500. My fps took about a 20 to 30 hit but I still get in the high 20's around the fleet. I'm sure they have a problem and they know it. They know what it is so there should be a patch before to long I hope. If anybody caught that conversation would you please clarify this so us Un-techy dudes can understand it?
LLB OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No difference in FR for me. I would suggest it is your system, not the game, given that just one person getting good results with a low end system, disproves your point.
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I'm with Rip.
I've noticed spasmodic pauses near ack firing. IE, if I'm near a CV group when theres big sh*t going down I get these funny little pauses. When I'm near a CV Group thats not in battle I have no problems.
Maybe its not graphics related, maybe its sound queing? IE, If a sh*tload of CV Group acks fire at once or in rapid succession how does that affect the soundcard? Especially a multichannel job like a SB Live (which is what I have).
In the meantime I've taken to avoiding large ship battles.
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Here`s some of my system.ini settings:
[386Enh]
PagingDrive=D:
MinPagingFileSize=131072
MaxPagingFileSize=131072
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
[vcache]
MinFileCache=32768
MaxFileCache=65536
ChunkSize=1024
466 Celeron@525mhz
256mb PC100 CAS 2 SDRAM
V770 TNT2 Pro 32mb <V770 ULTRA BIOS>
SBLIVE Value
After a fresh install I noticed some choppiness while online,I opened system.ini from the run prompt added the lines above and rebooted-problem solved.
I also use the server ram settings in system properties along with a fixed swap file,its rare to see any disk activity <swapping> with the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 setting in system.ini.
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Uhmm I see a lot of bla-bla-bla here. Looks like B17-II BBS (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
BTW, I play with a PIII-800 with 256MByte RAM and a GeForce2 GTS. Near CV groups the FR is *sometimes* so low that the sim is unplayable and enemy fiters warp around like mad frogs. I can understand well what Rip says.
Rip, lets buy a PII-333 with a Voodoo2 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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My PII-266, 128 Mb, Voodoo 3 2000, is at 15-25 FPS in CV groups.
Lot of warps, but this is a lag-ppl# issue.
Eh eh, Gatt your PC seem undermodeled...
Muhahahaha !!!!
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This has zilch to do with this thread of FPS quiting whine studmuffinology.
All I care is, Droopy only made it 5 days into his "2weeks" away from the bbs.
That's as piss poor as your 1999 system.
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Originally posted by jihad:
Here`s some of my system.ini settings:
[386Enh]
PagingDrive=D:
MinPagingFileSize=131072
MaxPagingFileSize=131072
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
[vcache]
MinFileCache=32768
MaxFileCache=65536
ChunkSize=1024
466 Celeron@525mhz
256mb PC100 CAS 2 SDRAM
V770 TNT2 Pro 32mb <V770 ULTRA BIOS>
SBLIVE Value
After a fresh install I noticed some choppiness while online,I opened system.ini from the run prompt added the lines above and rebooted-problem solved.
I also use the server ram settings in system properties along with a fixed swap file,its rare to see any disk activity <swapping> with the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 setting in system.ini.
Hossa jiihad,
there're 2 questions left for me:
1. How high is your fr in heavy fleet furrball
2. What Windows version your're using
Regards blitz
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Athlon 700, Geforce 2 MX here, and the only time FPS takes a hit is when I'm REAL close to water plumes from rounds hitting water. Like in a PT boat firing at the water right next to me.
CVs and ack have little effect on my FPS it seems, in in heavy conflagrations.
Spitboy -SW-
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agree, voodoo players seem to gripe less about 1.05
me and my v5500 as pretty happy, no noticeable problems, pretty smooth around CV and furball's though I think we could tone done the ack around the fleets.
wish you the best of luck Rip with your setup
Eagler
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All I can say to Geforce owners is that try out different driver versions, not always the latest 'leaked' beta driver gives the best performance..
I was using the latest driver set supplied by the card manufacturer (ELSA) and noticed bad framerates all over.. After installing the official NVIDIA detonator drivers, framerates were restored to normal level..
My system setup is:
Celeron 667@950Mhz
128Mb Cas2
Elsa erazor X overclocked to 145Mhz core / 180 memory
Dx8 + 98SE
3DMark2000 gives 4660pts at 1024x768 16bit
Framerates never plunge under 22fps with 1.05, generally getting over 60fps.
Those guys complaining with Geforce2 must have a complete mess with their system setup.
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Rip, something is odd about your drivers. I get much better frame rates than that around the carriers with: Cel 366, 128 mb ram, ATI xpert 128 (16 mb).
I'm curious to see how my other system will do when I get to use it again: Athlon Tbird 700@900, 128 mb cas2 pc 133 ram, 32 mb V770 Ultra. If it's lower than this Celery system I'm using now then maybe something us wrong.
Did patch 3 help?
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THUNDERBIRDS
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YES, Patch 3 helped alot! Thanks HT !
Now I get about 12-15 around CV's firing.
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Don't feel bad Rip, Wert hasn't played AH since he put in his Geforce card, says the display is totally messed up, must be something to this.