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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Widewing on June 02, 2004, 06:08:16 PM
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I had managed to pull 25-40 fps in AH2 with my 2 year-old Dell 1.7 gig P4 machine. I thought that was pretty good considering. Then the Dell's motherboard went belly up and it I had little choice but to build a new machine using the various drives from the old machine.
Since I could pick individual components, I was able to build a nice machine on the cheap.
Frame rates improved considerably, now up between 60 and 80 fps. However, I knew that ATI card had a lot more in it, so I began making adjustments. Essentially, I set the performance slider halfway off center towards "performance".
I logged into the beta arena and began checking the frame rate at various locations.
I was getting 155 fps in the cockpit on the runway. Once airborne out of the ground clutter, the frame steadily went up. To my amazement, while glancing to my right from the cockpit I observed an astounding 320 fps, with 245 fps straight ahead!!!
That's a full order of magnitude increase in frame rate for an expenditure not much over $450. Moreover, there's still more speed if I want it by just moving the Radeon slider to the max performance setting. Perhaps, at the expense of some graphic detail though. I don't see any need to go that far.
So, those of you gents who are having trouble running AH2, you can certainly build a monster machine for minimum investment if you shop around for the best prices.
My regards,
Widewing
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Sounds like you don't have Vsync on. What is your monitor's refresh rate. If you set Vsync on, your won't get any more than what the refresh rate will handle.
My monitor is 100Mhz and that is the max FPS I get. If I turn Vsync off, I can get the framerates that you see. You really want Vsync turned on.
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Originally posted by SlapShot
Sounds like you don't have Vsync on. What is your monitor's refresh rate. If you set Vsync on, your won't get any more than what the refresh rate will handle.
My monitor is 100Mhz and that is the max FPS I get. If I turn Vsync off, I can get the framerates that you see. You really want Vsync turned on.
Slapshot is there any particular reason to use Vsync in the on position, I run my monitor at 120 refresh rate, is this bad?
my Vsync is turned off , btw
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Originally posted by Skuzzy....
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Well 2late, in AH you may want to enable v-synch. Even though your monitor is running at 120Hz scan rates, it is possible for frame spikes to occur in software which could burst past that point causing lost video data perceived as micro-warps and such.
For quake style games it does not matter if you lose a bit of video data due to the nature of these types of games.
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I run with it on...most folks I know run with it on to prevent loss of data and "tearing"....just a thought...you can do a search for Vsynch and find a ton of good info on it.
Regards...:aok
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Most have VSync enabled....it's best to have it on.
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Originally posted by TequilaChaser
Slapshot is there any particular reason to use Vsync in the on position, I run my monitor at 120 refresh rate, is this bad?
my Vsync is turned off , btw
120Hhz is an excellent refresh rate !!! Turn Vsync on and the max you will get is 120 FPS ... no real need for more than that ... :D
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Re-enabled vsynch on mine as I believe it was leading to lost data. Shame, was nice looking straight up and seeing 540fps lol.