lousy fps

[Tonto]

i've got an amd 450 and a v770 32meg vidcard im only getin about 20-30 fps flyin in 190 lookin foward this drops to 9-10 over a field in a furball and fluctuates by 1/2 sometimes just flyin normal,i've got dx7a
and all background programs are turned off
i believe i should be getin better than this if anyone has any sugetions please let me know

[MANDOBLE]

Now I have a K7 and have no fps issues, but previously I had a K6 400 and 2 Voodoo2 SLI conf.
With the K6 I got 19-24 fps in "lousy" furballs near the ground, but fps drop below 10 in any furball is just over an airfield or with a single P38 in front of me.
The fps in frontal view of 190 during normal flight was 35-40.

[Westy]

PII 333mhz, 192mb ram and a V770 Ultra: FPS is high 20's to almost 40 depending on where I am and what I am flying around.
 I shut off ground clutter (sheep, trees and rocks) as soon as I log on to save FPS when low and near the ground. I regain at least 5fps if my PC doesn't have to render them. Shut off the ground clutter with a CTRL C to help.

 -Westy


[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 05-03-2000).]

[bloom25]

Tonto, if you have a k6-2 or k6-3, that's about the best that is possible.  The FPU (floating-point) performance of those processors is markedly inferior to even a Pentium PRO.  The K7 has a superb floating point unit (about 33% better than a PIII) and as such performs well in AH.

Your only solution is to try drivers until you find the one that performs best.  You can also add RAM to your system.  (If you have more than 64MB this won't make much of a difference though.)

For more info, check out the AH FAQ file.  There's a section in there about how to optimize your system.



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