ET Game Performance

(Migraine) #1

Im having some pretty crappy performance with Et…

For example, on the rail gun map, i spend most of my time at 10-12 fps in gunfights. A demo ive recorded of that map (5 mins of gameplay) gets a timedemo score of 17 fps. 640x480 or 1600x1200 makes no difference whatsoever to my FPS.

Current Rig:

Athlon 1000Mhz overclocked to 1333Mhz
FSB: 133Mhz
768MB 133Mhz SDRAM (Hunk megs set to 256)
Asus Geforce FX 5600.

Ideas anyone?

p.s. I just trieg turning atmospheric effects off… 0.5fps increase :banghead:

(DG) #2

if fps doesnt change when you increase res, its all limited by your cpu (not too surprising given your puc is much older than your gfx). 17fps is pretty bad for a 1.33ghz cpu though! what sort of benchmark scores you get?

(senator) #3

Try installing the latest drivers or tweaking the config.

I have a Duron 1GHz, GeForce 2 TI, running at 1024x768 with most details set to low I can play quite decently.

(Domipheus) #4

k, i think there is something wrong with your comp setup, for example my setup is:

Athlon 1Ghz @ 1.3 GHz
FSB 100MHz
512MB SDRAM (hunk set to default)
Abit Siluro Geforce FX 5200

and on medium/high settings @ 800*600, i get at least 40 fps.

maybe you have loads of programs runing in the background?

(Migraine) #5

IRC, E-Mail, Motherboard monitor…

Little things basicly. yeah, they take a few cycles, but no where near 20-30 fps worth!

It could be some whacky motherboard setting or something…

p.s. ive tried different drivers (Nvidia + Asus), and this is my 2nd windows 2000 install.

(SCDS_reyalP) #6

I got a big improvement from going to 16 bit color and low res (800x600). Nothing else made a big difference. Well, turning foliage and fog off both did, but those are cheat protected.

That is with a gf2 ti (which is not much different from a gf4 mx).

(Migraine) #7

well, smeg.

Turned the PC off last night, now this morning it wont even switch on.
well, it does for 3-4 seconds, then switches off again.

That motherboard+ram+CPU upgrade is looking more and more tempting :eek2:

(Juan) #8

Try setting your FSB back to 100 I had exactly the same problem on an Intel BX chipset @133 with RTCW gfx settings made no difference and it underperformed. Mainly because the AGP bus was out of spec I think.

Domi doesn’t have the same problem because he’s at 100FSB I suspect that is the reason.

(Migraine) #9

Ive finally caved in and bought an Athlon 2500+, DDR ram and nforce2 mobo. Arriving tomorrow.

If that doesnt fix it, ill go dynamite myself :slight_smile:

([=O=]SMYLER) #10

You’ll have to change your name when you get that beastie, Migraine will not be fitting, do something like HappyHead for you will be a happy chappy :clap: .