I am getting around 28-40 fps on Half-Life 2 even though I have the following system specs:
AMD 4800+ Dual core 64 bit cpu
Dual Geforce 7800 GTX 512 mb SLI
Asus SL8N SLI motherboard
2 GB PC3200 ram (ultra low latency)
SoundBlaster X-Fi sound card
Nforce 4 chipset.
Here is the real kicker. When I set the resolution to 1600 X 1200 with X4 anti-aliasing and X16 anisotopric filtering I get somewhere between 28-40 fps (which frankly is too low for a system like this). BUT WHEN I THEN TURN THE RESOLUTION DOWN TO 640 X 480 WITH ANTI-ALIASING AND ANISTROPIC FILTERING TURNED OFF AND EVERY OTHER GRAPHICS SETTING TO LOW, I STILL GET 28-40 FPS!
In other words, drastically reducing the graphics setting has no impact whatsoever on frame rates.
I have the latest video card drivers, sound card drivers, motherboard drivers, direct X drivers, etc.. I even reformatted my computer with a fresh install of Windows Xp and installed all the latest drivers on top of this fresh installation, and there was no change! I can't figure out why this is happening. Doom 3 seems to run ok (60 fps with everything turned up to the max).
AMD 4800+ Dual core 64 bit cpu
Dual Geforce 7800 GTX 512 mb SLI
Asus SL8N SLI motherboard
2 GB PC3200 ram (ultra low latency)
SoundBlaster X-Fi sound card
Nforce 4 chipset.
Here is the real kicker. When I set the resolution to 1600 X 1200 with X4 anti-aliasing and X16 anisotopric filtering I get somewhere between 28-40 fps (which frankly is too low for a system like this). BUT WHEN I THEN TURN THE RESOLUTION DOWN TO 640 X 480 WITH ANTI-ALIASING AND ANISTROPIC FILTERING TURNED OFF AND EVERY OTHER GRAPHICS SETTING TO LOW, I STILL GET 28-40 FPS!
In other words, drastically reducing the graphics setting has no impact whatsoever on frame rates.
I have the latest video card drivers, sound card drivers, motherboard drivers, direct X drivers, etc.. I even reformatted my computer with a fresh install of Windows Xp and installed all the latest drivers on top of this fresh installation, and there was no change! I can't figure out why this is happening. Doom 3 seems to run ok (60 fps with everything turned up to the max).