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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Nath[BDP] on March 14, 2002, 11:34:21 PM
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Since I installed 1.9 my FPS in MA has dropped by 20-40 fps, and goes down to 18 or less around many other planes. It is unplayable.
I have GF3, 384mb, P3 1ghz, DX8.1, 21.83 nvidia drivers.
Anyone else suffering from something similar?
thanks
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Pretty much counts me out too if this FR rate drop is the norm :(
566mhz cerleron 128 ram 32 meg ati card
getting 19 front view on the tarmak off line
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lost about 20-25fps in the MA as well. maybe it's from the new vox.
ack-ack
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I'd check amd make sure you've the latest drivers of course AND that your using a Directx Ver 8.1 or better. Had a squadie that was having frame freezes whenever he keyed up his mic. He got the latest Directx 8.1 ver and all is well now.
xBAT
P.S. You can prob also change how your CPU deals w/sound under Dx8.1, ie change the priority thing.
Other ideas..turn some Vid card features off perhaps...mess w/resolution... make sure your HD is defragged...IRQ conflicts blablabla... etc.
xBAT again
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Frame rates went from 55-70 to 20-40. There were also lots of freezes and warps _ some of which I attribute to the 430+ people online.
In past versions my frame rates have dropped and then crept back up as patches were added. I'm hoping squeakin' Betty and her constant "Airbase under attack" is chewing up some FR.
Can someone find the bunker she is sheltered in, and bomb it?
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Later on during the night I was able to use the vox OK without any stuttering or sound cutting in and out. It seemed when I turned up the Effects option in the voice setup, the stuttering and sound loss went away.
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Ack-Ack
479th FG - Riddle's Raiders
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I too have lost 30 to 40 FPS since 1.09. My FR now around 25-30 until get in smoke or around other planes then drops to 18-20. sometimes it takes a hit and drops to 5 (freeze time). My vid card is nividia 400 mx 64 meg and I have 256 ram.
Wizer: :confused:
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Very odd,..I have an ATI Radeon 8500. I see no difference at all in frame rate. Still getting about 70 or so at 1280x1024x32 resolution.
Maybe delete the video7.cfg file and reset the video parameters from scratch. I have palletized textures off and mip mapping enabled.
Just a thought.
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Baine,
I don't know if squeakin Betty eats much FR but you can shut her up by deleting/renaming warning and/or air raid in your sounds folder.
DJ229
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Thanks, blissfull silence once again.:D
Dl'd dx 8.1, but didn't get any change, frame rate still 40ish with big drops in massive furballs.:(
I'm hoping things will improve. If not, at least I now have an excuse to upgrade the video card.:rolleyes:
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Odd, but fact is ive read 20+ postings that Players lost 20 to 30 FPS since New release. :(
Something is up. :(
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Floss has posted that running AH voice *and* RW drops FPS considerably.
Any of you guys running both apps side by side?
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Not me, just AH voice. I was religious in using it when it was in beta also, and that caused no fr problem whatsoever.
My system
AMD 800
256 mb ram
Voodoo 3 16mb
rotten onboard via chip sound:mad: (I really do have to change that)
Directx 8.1
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Originally posted by Seeker
Floss has posted that running AH voice *and* RW drops FPS considerably.
Not quite, Seeker. What I said was that if you run the separate version of AHVoice, as you used to have to before the last update, as well as the integrated one, it will cause problems. I made the mistake of opening AHVoice before logging into AH and was receiving every word anybody said twice - really weird sounding! I was also experiencing extremely low frame-rates, as low as about 6 FPS when planes were attacking my Osty.... the fact I managed to get a kill while looking at a slide show was nothing short of miraculous! :p Anyway, once I realised that AHVoice no longer needed to be opened separately I closed it down, and my problems disappeared immediately! Frame-rates returned to normal, and I no longer heard people saying "HelloHellocancanyouyouhearhea rmeme" :)
I was using RW in the scenario yesterday without any problems, and could have used AHVoice (on the Range/Room channel) at the same time too, but didn't due to the warning we had received not to. :D
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ah, I stand corrected!
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Very odd,..I have an ATI Radeon 8500. I see no difference at all in frame rate. Still getting about 70 or so at 1280x1024x32 resolution.
Maybe delete the video7.cfg file and reset the video parameters from scratch. I have palletized textures off and mip mapping enabled.
Just a thought.
I gave that a try, but still have low FR. Thanks for the reply though. :)
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Flossy
Your kidding? AHV works in scenario?
I wish they would turn it on in H2H.
Me and some of my Squad mates like to practice Base attack tactics in there.
RW is ok. Nut AHV actually is more stable for me. You know?....disconnects and all.
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I've had a 30 to 50% drop in FR as well... Went from 35 - 45 and fairly stable to a base 23 to 25 which drops like a rock to the 8 to 10 range in smoke or multiple plane environments...
System:
P3 800
392 SDRAM
nVIDIA GeForce2 64Meg
SBLive 5.1 XGamer
have reloaded sound drivers, video drivers, tried new and older versions. Playing with different memory mangers now...
--> One note, am using a HBlair hand-me-down MOboard and processor which he was getting much higher frames with on a 32Meg card and less RAM. :(<--
I also have a Win2K Pro configuration using the same MO & Processor combo which produces poorer overall FRs and gives me a nasty little intermittent flash at the bottom of the screen in AH only. Have tried other online games without the problem. & BTW the newest nVIDIA drivers and WIN2K do not work with AH on my FE (get a green screen when loaded, have reset my video7.cfg file to every setting with no joy). It does work with the original drivers however.
Reading the comments previously posted, I am inclined to believe that the nVIDIA hardware/software might be suspect. Seems to be a recuring theme.
I think I will format C and reload 98SE and the bare necessities, then see what she does.
Hope this helps identify the problem. Any suggestions for me to try would be appreciated.
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I too am suffering the dreaded FPS drop! I believe it has more to do with 1.09 and AHVoice than any of the remedies I have seen here.
The reason I say that is that I have checked my fps on Warbirds and it's fine.
Yo HiTech is it the ISP you are using now??
CPU - AMD XP 1800 Overclocked to 1900
RAM - 512 OCZ PC2400
Video - Geforce3 Ti 200
Cable Modem
yadda yadda......... :-D
Hawkeye
The Original Flying Tigers
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This worked for me no warranties implied or expressed. If it doesn't work for you, or smoke starts pouring out of your machine that's your business not mine.
Here's what I saw before...
Specs 512M ram, AMD 1.8, Geforce 4 MX 440, and Soundblaster Audigy Sound Card. Running XP, with the Nvidia reference drivers that are certified from their site, as well as the latest Audigy drivers from the Soundblaster site.
I run in 1200 resolution 32 bit color.
AH ver 1.08 min 30 FPS about over a huge furball at a smoking field. 75 FPS (limited by monitor refresh rate) most of the time in average flying conditions.
AH ver 1.09 min 15 FPS max mid-40's FPS.
My solution...
I went to http://www.guru3d.com, I went into their drivers section and downloaded the 27.70 ver of the windows XP Detonator drivers, downloaded the Via 4.10b AGP driver for my motherboard, I manually turned off anti-aliasing by going into the control panel for the video card, and turned the sound acceleration down to half.
I made the first mistake in trouble shooting, by changing all of these things at once. Forgive me I was getting tired of the slide show every time I was flying near any field on fire.
The Result...
45 FPS per second in the absolute worst possible flying conditions. 30 + planes everything on fire (Rooks got all cranky that we vulched their field so they came over and egged our house) 75 FPS every other time I looked at the counter.
I didn't do any more testing than that. I was just happy to have fluid frame rates again. Hopefully, this may help some of you.