T-4600 frame rates

[Gonz0]

I have a Xp2000, 512 ram, and ti4600 sith Audigy sound card.  I play the game at 1600 x 1200 and used to get frame rates over 75 and consistent furballing ro not.  Now, for some reason, I am barely getting 55 and when in furball will bounce dramatically.  What has happened?  I have made no changes to drivers or updated hardware in anyway.  Did AH change something?  Any help would be appreciated.  Ohhh...and my benchmark scores haven't fluctuated.  Seems to be within AH.

Gonz

[Gonz0]

My game settings are at 1600x1200 32 bit with mip mapping checked and disable paletized tectures unchecked.  Unlimited frame rate checked.  My benchmark scores are as follows:  5290 with 1600x1200, 32 bit, 4x samples, compressed with z-buffer at 24 bit.  Same specs at 1280x1024 scores 7144.  I thought these were decent scores but they don't seem to transfer to AH well.  Any help would be appreciated.

Gonz0

[Gonz0]

And...using Direct X  8.1 and running 40.72 drivers that were installed as a windows XP update.  Monitor is ViewSonic that runs at 1024 x 768 and 32 bit at 100 mhz.  This is all I can think of for useful information.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Gonz0

[Dingbat]

Get rid of the Det 40 drivers first of all, use the 30.82.  Second, Run the game at your desktop resolution.  third 55 FPS is plenty.  unless you drop below 30, should you really worry about anything.

[Gonz0]

It is not only the drop in FR but the constant fluctuations causing problems.  Where do I find the older drivers and must I uninstall the 40. drivers first?  And what correlation does the monitor resolution have with the game resolution?  Doesnt AH overide monitor settings?   Thank you for your help.

Gonz0

[Wizer]

Gonzo, I believe your problem is with the 40.72 drivers.  I downloaded the 40.72 drivers and took a hit on my frame rate.  I just went back to the previous drivers  30.82  and got my 75 frame rate back.   just "roll-back" to your old drivers and you will be okay.

[Gonz0]

Just to make sure I don't screw something up...how exactly would you recommend "rolling back" the drivers?

Gonz0

[Gonz0]

I rolled them back through the control panel...however....when I rolled to previous driver I got driver 2.9.4.2...how old is this thing?   Will search Nvidia for the other dirver but if you could advise about this driver version it would be appreciated.

gonz0

[Gonz0]

Just thought I would let you know that with the 3082 drivers with the above configs  the 3d benchmark scores are 4275 and 6390 respectively.  Almost 1000 points lower than using the 40 drivers.  Then why in the hell do the 3082 drivers work better in AH???????????????????????????????

A confused Gonz0

[Starbird]

I think the 40.xx drivers turn on bilinear filtering by default. That will slow down your framerates a bit.

If the radio text in AH looks a bit hard to read, then its on.

I think you need to turn off the 'sharpen textures' checkbox in the drvier settings to turn off the filtering.

I havn't found any problems with the 40.72's yet. They have some neat features.

[FOGOLD]

Watch it with drivers. I would strongly reccomend uninstalling 40 drivers first. See  how to do this at:

http://www.technologyvault.co.uk/geforce/faq


Make sure everything is cleared out then go back to the 30.* drivers.  Lephturn will keep you right on this!

Also don't update drivers right away. Let them stew for a while before trying them if your system is working ok.

Good luck.

[Apar]

There is a special Detonator driver removal program on the nVidea site, use it to completely remove the old driver before you install the new one.

[Corrs]

I can't offer any tech tips, but might be able to cure your pain. Check out the FR's on my system

[bloodstain]

 OMG! what are you running?

[Dingbat]

probably a trident