i just got a new Sapphire Radeon 9600XT installed it run et at 1024*768 and i get 30 fps at railgun 
wtf
my sys spec are:
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
512 DDR Ram
4x AGP motherboard
Windows XP SP1
Display drivers 7.94
I phoned the shop and they said my processor is to slow but i dont think thats true.
Try running at a lower detail (not res)⌠I have a 9600 (2500+ cpu, 8x agp), and Iâm able to pull 43 fps everywhere on railgun, unless iâm caught in an airstrike storm. Also, in the Display control panel, try changing the OpenGL settings to âperformance.â (note: this option and others are all accessed by clicking the advanced button)
Have you installed the correct motherboard drivers? Itâs really important, especially for VIA chipsets.
Hmm, seems a trifle slowâŚ
On Linux x86
2400XP 266FSB
512Mb DDR
4x AGP
GeFarce 3ti200
1024x768 all detail turned on at 32bpp.
Its hitting the 90fps limiter most of the time and dropping to around 40 minimum when thereâs loads of AS etc being rendered.
It could well be that your CPU isnât able to shovel as much data as your Radeon can process.
You could get a 2400XP for about ĂÂŁ50 and youâd be flying!
this sounds like a driver issueâŚ
i had an athlon 1333 with a gf 4400 ti,
and had around 80 fps on railgun.
get some drivers for your motherboard young chaps!
Change this setting in your config.
r_ati_fsaa_samples â0â //set it to 0 for performance
c-ya
i just got a new Sapphire Radeon 9600XT installed it run et at 1024*768 and i get 30 fps at railgun wtf
my sys spec are:
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
512 DDR Ram
4x AGP motherboard
Windows XP SP1
Display drivers 7.94I phoned the shop and they said my processor is to slow but i dont think thats true.
Display Drivers 7.94??
Do you mean CATALYSTâ⢠3.8??
Yep your CPU is a big bottleneck, what did you have before this 9600XT.
If it was an nvidia card of some description then I would advice a re-install.
How old is your XP installation, any more than 9 months and I would re-install, this is not important on a 3GHz 512 ddr400 9800XT machine, but yours will show a good increase in speed.
Create minimum 2 partitions C and D. Install all relevant motherboard drivers, place all personal docs and the like to D drive, changing any pointers like My Documents. Ghost the finalized C windows installation onto D drive.
Any time need to re-install C, BAM (futurama) 10 mins later fresh new XP.
SH
yeah i have catalist 3.8
i had a Geforce 2 MX 400 before that
i reinstalled windows XP
and my cpu and my RAM speed are the bottleneck i found out after some extencive research and phoning :(.
i have 2 partitions 1 full of warez drivers and documents and the other full of games and more warez :).
thanks for your help all, but i think its time for a totaly new pc.
generally, try a low and a high resolution, if fps stays roughly the same between 800x600 and 1024x768 then cpu is bottleneck, if it changes significantly then its probably video card.
can be worth turning on low detail sky / fastsky; turning off particles (explosion effects) and maybe atmospheric effects (rain/snow) and see what that does - they dont really effect visual quality all that much and can really cut down on the fps drops when theyre hurting the most.
If youâre upgrading CPU etc, you may or may not be able to chuck a âXPâ cpu into that motherboard, maybe more likely you will need a new one and possibly new ram. should be able to get one of the cut-down nforce2âs (unless you want the good Soundstorm sound chip or SATA, RAID etc) for about ĂÂŁ50 (when cheaper in USD$) online, a good AMD XP for not much more and a 512mb stick for about the same.
yeah im going for asus a7n8x deluxe with 1 gig or ram and amd 2800+ and a radeon 9800 pro (i get 40% discout so why not?) 
