stratocasted
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Arg! I am a PC-gamer all the way. I love the level of controll you get with a keyboard (esdf baby, screw wasd) and I adore my five button trackball. Blasting krauts and aliens and assorted baddies still makes my toes curl & spawning dozens of extra enemies to test my metal is a favorite passtime. For some reason, many of my post-q3 engine games are running very poorly, and I want some suggestions to speed them up.
Pentium 4 @ 2.8 Ghz
One gig of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Soundblaster Audigy 2
200/2200 average Pagefile Used
200/2400 average Commit Charge
approx 20 free Gigs of Hard disk space
My graphics card is an oldie, but I got a fair frame rate in half life two, even with high anti alaising settings. Doom three ran like a dream in High mode, but would stutter in Ultra. I'm talking about 1024x768 res too. Now, for whatever reason, my average fps is terrible no matter what game I try. The old numbers reflect a high graphic setting and my new averages are with medium or low settings. for example, bilinear filtering, zero anti alaising, low quality shaders, shadows, post-process effects, et cetera.
I'm not exactly sure what I've done to my poor box that makes it suffer so. I have all my firmware & drivers & directx & all that good stuff up to date. I am really looking forward to Bethesda's Oblivion and I know if I can't run Fable and Fear and Far Cry well, Oblivion will get about one frame per second. Before I rush out and buy a new graphix card, and short of a complete system overhaul and reformatting, what steps can I take to at least diagnose the problem?
Is there a benchmarking program out there that gives a more detailed or accurate picture of my overall system-performance than Task Manager? I really have no clue why these games are running so poorly. I overclocked my graphics card using a program called RivaTuner, but got scared & set it back to the factory default. That was after the games started behaving poorly, and overclocking it had no effect on the performance of those games one way or another, though now I'm concerned I may have damaged my card. (?)
I've defraged and cleaned the dust off my mobo. I even picked the gunk off the vent to let the poor thing breathe easier. Where should I go, what should I do, woe is me, and so on. ANY advice is welcome.
:chef:
Pentium 4 @ 2.8 Ghz
One gig of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Soundblaster Audigy 2
200/2200 average Pagefile Used
200/2400 average Commit Charge
approx 20 free Gigs of Hard disk space
My graphics card is an oldie, but I got a fair frame rate in half life two, even with high anti alaising settings. Doom three ran like a dream in High mode, but would stutter in Ultra. I'm talking about 1024x768 res too. Now, for whatever reason, my average fps is terrible no matter what game I try. The old numbers reflect a high graphic setting and my new averages are with medium or low settings. for example, bilinear filtering, zero anti alaising, low quality shaders, shadows, post-process effects, et cetera.
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ye olde average fps crappy new avrg
Doom-3 [30] [15]
Half Life 2 [25] [10]
Unreal 2 [35] [15]
Earned in Blood [20] [5]
Chaos Theory [25] [15]
Thief 3 [30] [20]
Black & White 2 [25] [5]
F.E.A.R [30] [9]
Fable [20] [8]
Dungeon Siege 2 [35] [9]
Far-Cry [30] [12]
Max Payne 2 [30] [15]
I'm not exactly sure what I've done to my poor box that makes it suffer so. I have all my firmware & drivers & directx & all that good stuff up to date. I am really looking forward to Bethesda's Oblivion and I know if I can't run Fable and Fear and Far Cry well, Oblivion will get about one frame per second. Before I rush out and buy a new graphix card, and short of a complete system overhaul and reformatting, what steps can I take to at least diagnose the problem?
Is there a benchmarking program out there that gives a more detailed or accurate picture of my overall system-performance than Task Manager? I really have no clue why these games are running so poorly. I overclocked my graphics card using a program called RivaTuner, but got scared & set it back to the factory default. That was after the games started behaving poorly, and overclocking it had no effect on the performance of those games one way or another, though now I'm concerned I may have damaged my card. (?)
I've defraged and cleaned the dust off my mobo. I even picked the gunk off the vent to let the poor thing breathe easier. Where should I go, what should I do, woe is me, and so on. ANY advice is welcome.
:chef: