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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Mister Fork on May 19, 2004, 11:28:22 AM
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Video and performance tips:[list=1]
- Leave VSync on. It has no real performance gains other than pseudo-increased fps.
- Turning off AA and AF in your video card settings will increase FPS and but reduce graphical quality.
- Run Enditall before starting AHII to ensure no unnecessary appications are running in the background. You can find it here:http://safsquad.com/Files/EndItAll2.zip
- In game video settings, click Setup->Video->Video. Try changing the ‘Max Texture Size’ option from ‘unlimited’ to a lower setting. If your video card has 64megs or less, try setting it to 256 or lower.
- In the same panel, if you game looks ‘dark’, bump up the gamma slider .25 increments to lighten the screen.
- In the same panel, try unchecking bump mapping to see if it improves performance.
- In the Graphic detail panel, click Setup>Video>Graphic detail, there are three sliders to improve performance. Level of detail and Displayed Object Size can be adjusted to improve game graphic quality or adjusted to improve FPS. Ground Detail Range is the distance to which objects come into video in full detail. Reducing the range will improve performance at a cost of when distance ground objects appear.
- ATI - download Omega's version of the ATI driver: http://www.omegacorner.com/index.html). Lots of great tips on other tweaks can be found in the readme file.
- NVIDIA - download the latest from http://www.nvidia.com
- Upgrade your OS to at least XP Home or Professional edition. It’s capable of handling more memory than 98/ME.
- Best stability upgrade (not faster but smoother) performance is to add more memory. For XP – 1.0Gb. 98/ME – see previous point.
- Upgrade your video card to at least the performance of an ATI 9600 or NVIDIA equivalent. http://www.tomshardware.com is a good start for researching a video card to buy.
- Reinstalling the latest version of DX9 may resolve some weird graphical glitches. Run the DX test to ensure all is working well.
- Ensure your bios and motherboard drivers are fully updated (VIA/ALI/INTEL).
- Ensure your sound card drivers are fully updated.
- If upgrading your workstation, research integrated devices such as video, NIC and sound cards. Sure, they may save you money, but at what performance cost? Computer devices integrated into the motherboard may reduce computer performance.
- Above all, ensure your OS is fully updated and patched from http://www.microsoft.com.[/list=1]Acronyms:
FPS - frames per second
AA - anti-aliasing
AF - anisotropic filtering
OS - Operating System
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In another thread it was stated that AF has no effect on AHI or AHII, but would degrade performance if enabled.
Perhaps HTC could answer this one, does AF have an effect on AH?
A good article on AF:Extremetech AF article 2002 (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,548248,00.asp)
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Good post...thanks, Fork!
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WTG Fork!
That post needs to be pinned.
DmdMax
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The claim that AF has no effect was from an Nvidia user.
For Radeon users (9800Pro here) it definitely improves the look of the ground detail with minimal if any effect on frame rates.
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Mister Fork
How much difference do the omega drivers make for your ATI card?
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For me, 3DMark went up around 900. :D
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The only downside to forcing AF is it does blur the text in the game. Just FYI.
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Good tips.
Only thing is DON'T upgrade your BIOS unless you have good reason. You could screw your board and it WILL NOT increase the performance of your machine one iota if it is working fine just now.
All the other things are reversable if they go wrong.;)
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Thanks fork! :)
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...bump...
great post - HiTech please make this a sticky
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FYI>>>
Might want to add that Omega drivers could screwup your computer (unable to run ANY 3D games including of course AH), even if installed correctly per instructions on the site.
You might not be able to fix said problems by reverting to old drivers.
You might have to do a complete reinstall.
PS... Just got everything reinstalled and working fine in AHI and II on old drivers.
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Someone has posted elsewhere that the upgrade to the newest Omega absolutely requires that you completely uninstall the old drivers first.
Specifically, you must remove the ATI control panel in order to install Omega drivers.
You probably knew this :)
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The only downside to forcing AF is it does blur the text in the game.
Skuzzy... most of these old farts can't see straight to begin with. :D
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I'm going to bump this, because it's very helpful.
Also casting my vote to make it sticky :)
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My vote for sticky as well!
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There is a fix for memory limits for 98 here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/
Look for win98se service packs 1 and 2. Should allow you to run allot more then 512.
Omega drivers are no longer available/supported for 98.
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Could an antialiasing option be added to the in-game video settings menu? That way we wouldn't have to go back to the desktop video settings each time we wanted to fiddle with the FSAA settings.
Also, it seems like AF doesn't do much for the game but FSAA blurs text. Did skuzzy mean AA blurs text, or AF blurs text? AA definately blurs the text...
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Anyone know if ENDITALL2 will work with Win XP PRO??????
The readme says nothing about WINXP....
Any users try it???
Is it safe?
Regards!
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Bump
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Enditall2 does indeed work in WIN XP PRO! Great little program!:)
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I have to say the video has gotten much much better since the earlier versions I tried. I think I have everything set to the minimum(default), but I can live with that for 75 fps.
Also I think I noticed only one studder ( no longer a freeze). I think its close to going gold. Good work HTC - its falling into place.
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Bookmarked. Great post, Fork! :aok
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Video and performance tips:
and for the rest of us who arent bill gates and have no clue how to do most of this!
were screwed
;)
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Originally posted by 68DevilM
Video and performance tips:
and for the rest of us who arent bill gates and have no clue how to do most of this!
were screwed
;)
Suggest "readme" files get read and hell, useless though microsoft help is, it CAN get you through updating drivers and the like.
Which is saying something.:rolleyes:
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Bump
only cause it should stay on the front page
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Bump:)
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Not too keen on the omega drivers. I lost 10-15 fps with the omega drivers with my 9600 pro.
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I run 1 GB ram using Win98SE. Unless I see a real reason to upgrade to MS's nightmare I'm content to continue along with my existing software.
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Originally posted by wrag
Omega drivers are no longer available/supported for 98.
Wanted to bump this for the quoted reason, better off using http://www.ati.com for driver upgrades if you are a win98/me user
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Was going to give one more try to get decent framerates before deleting account.
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Anyone know the best driver version for a GF4 ti-4400 and AH2? I've tried the 3x.xx and a 54.xx but I'm not doing something right.
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Originally posted by Horn
Was going to give one more try to get decent framerates before deleting account.
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Anyone know the best driver version for a GF4 ti-4400 and AH2? I've tried the 3x.xx and a 54.xx but I'm not doing something right.
horn i have a GF2 and i get flyable results in AH2 how come your not satisfied with the GF4?
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Originally posted by Flyboy
horn i have a GF2 and i get flyable results in AH2 how come your not satisfied with the GF4?
Because I'm probably not doing something correctly hence my question. Framerates are in the teens unless I actually see a plane and then it's 1 or 2.
h
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nm. found it.