Which Resolution Do You Use?
Hellbilly
A whole title out of pity... Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3931Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
A whole title out of pity... Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3931Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
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All thanks to my SiS card...oh happy days!
(get around 40 - 60 fp/s in this mode...anything in Open GL mode ill get < 15 fp/s...and for anything higher in Direct 3d mode ill get 15 - 22 fp/s)
I too have a GeForce 4 Ti 4400, but I also have a 2 ghz P4. I can probably put it at anything I want, but I'm too lazy and my monitor is too small. (17").
I've got a GeForce3 Ti 200, and I have great FPS. Not sure what it is off the top of my head, but it's never been choppy once.
BTW, I also have my brightness at the default level - my roommates think I'm crazy because they have theirs up all the way, which basically takes out all the darkness. I've gotten used to it being dark, I suppose, because I don't have any trouble.
Edit. new comp, 2.1ghz 512 ram, geforce 2 64 mb video card. think im good for 1280x960?
I love windowed mode, I can alt-tab all I want with no delay, and read chat and such in the corners around the HL window (1280X1024 desktop resolution), and there's no real FPS hit that I notice.
(to do it, just put -window in the NS shortcut command line. So it's something like hl.exe -game NS -window , and some other stuff. I think O_o)
And recently: 1280x960 on Radeon 9700 Pro *drool* 100 FPS!
I think 1600x1200 rocks and I'll never go back to 1024x768 :>
<b>EDIT:</b> Whoops I'm full of it. I run 40-100fps depending on the amount of junk on the screen. Oh well no biggie the Radeon 9700 Pro is arriving today <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This is due to the fact that cameras will record the motion blur no matter what speed, and when played back the video thus appears seamless. Computer games, however, do not have this motion blur effect because each frame is like a still image that is generated and displayed in rapid succession with successive still images. Without the motion blur effect of real life (you will see motion blurs in real life through your own eye because it has to compress however many infesitesimal moments into a single image), I guess that the 30 FPS limit doesn't hold as much water.
Please note that I read this ages ago and so I may have gotten details wrong, or the whole thing may be flat out wrong by itself. If someone is researching the subject, I would be interested to know what details might be found.
Looking Glass,
Firedrake
I could probably put out 100 fps with my Geforce2 TI if my monitor refreshed that fast (and turning off vsync doesn't make ANY sense to me -- regardless of how fast the eye can see, if the monitor can't draw it, why render it in the first place?)
Human Eye "Specs"
Motion blur at: 24 fps (NTSC Film)
Limit of optical capacity: 72 fps (which is why 75Hz is the "minimum refresh rate")
Perceptual ability: 200+fps (You'll react, but won't "see" it)
Resolution: 20000+ dpi, 7+ billion colours
- M4H
I got always over 70fps.
AMD AthlonXP 1800+, GeForce4Ti 4200..
One actual benefit to having a higher-than-30 framerate is that if the server lags, or your machine lags and your FPS takes a hit, you have some buffer before it drops to an unnacceptable level. In other words, if you get 60 FPS, you can take as much as a -30 FPS hit from lag or whatever, and still have at least 30 FPS.
Edit: I forgot to post my specs ... I run 1600x1200 on an athlon 1.1 w/ 512 RAM and a GeForce 2 GTS. Using the "timerefresh" console command, it reports anywhere from 70 to 112 FPS, depending on if there are particle systems in the area or not, etc. I'd say during actual play, the FPS varies between 30 and 60, but I'm guessing.
Visiontek GF3 64mb DDR Ram
512MB pc/2100 DDR Ram
k7 T-bird 1.4Ghz Clocked to 1.6
and a lovely -20 fps to boot <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
it sux0rs
I only have a 1.2Ghz Athlon, Geforce 2 GTS and a 19" monitor, my PC is unfrotunately cronically ill, it'll probably die soon. If I ever shut down the PC it just refuses to boot up again, I press the power button the power led turns on for 1-2 seconds then it just dies. Strangely enough if you press the power button a couple of hundred times it eventually boots up (Im serious, once took me 1 hour and 35 minutes for me to turn on the PC!!!)
I never turn off the PC unless it crashes to avoid having to try to get it on again, but sometimes it just dies after being on a couple of days. And then it's almost impossible to get started again. I'd buy a new PC but I'll see how long this piece of junk lasts. Cause it's still fast enough and mostly stable.
I figure it's probably the motherboards fault I've got an ASUS A7M266 and I've read about LOADS of others having the same problem with this board. It's **obscenity** I'll never buy an ASUS mother board again.
I only have a 1.2Ghz Athlon, Geforce 2 GTS and a 19" monitor, my PC is unfrotunately cronically ill, it'll probably die soon. If I ever shut down the PC it just refuses to boot up again, I press the power button the power led turns on for 1-2 seconds then it just dies. Strangely enough if you press the power button a couple of hundred times it eventually boots up (Im serious, once took me 1 hour and 35 minutes for me to turn on the PC!!!)
I never turn off the PC unless it crashes to avoid having to try to get it on again, but sometimes it just dies after being on a couple of days. And then it's almost impossible to get started again. I'd buy a new PC but I'll see how long this piece of junk lasts. Cause it's still fast enough and mostly stable.
I figure it's probably the motherboards fault I've got an ASUS A7M266 and I've read about LOADS of others having the same problem with this board. It's **obscenity** I'll never buy an ASUS mother board again.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I once had that problem before, solution for me was..
Open tower
Air compressor / air in a can will do fine
Blow out all the dust, and blamo! Running perfect.
Well I do have 3 4” exterior fans, and 1 2” exterior, point is it collects a lot of dust.
TNT 2
Max fps: approx. 45
Min fps: at least 5 (especially in a heavily barricaded marine base)
Talk about pain. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
*edit* Oh yeah because of my heavily out-dated system I am forced to play on a resolution of 800*600, otherwise it just wouldn?t be bearable... aahhh well but there still is christmas! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Open tower
Air compressor / air in a can will do fine
Blow out all the dust, and blamo! Running perfect.
Well I do have 3 4” exterior fans, and 1 2” exterior, point is it collects a lot of dust.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Perhaps I should try that... there are quite a considerable amount of dust in some places, especially close to the CPU one can hardly see the components under the dirt. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I run at 1024x768x32, 2xFSAA, 8xAnistropy, fps_max at 85. My monitor is 17", but 1024x768 is the highest resoulution I can go at 85hz. 60hz looks like crap and makes my eyes burn.
i play at 1024 x 768 x 32bit with trilinear activated but no anti-aliasing and no vertical synchronization and i don't let the frame rate limit of half-life be low enough to affect it. i don't know the frames per second i get coz i don't know how to display it. funny thing is that if you disable vsync in half-life games you notice a frame skipping type of effect. it's really annoying. i can't get rid of it. i thought it was the sound buffer being too big but that's not it. i never notice my frame rate suffer in NS except when lots or lerk gas is on screen or when i'm spectator flying through the void.
EDIT- flying through the void doesn't seem to be slow anymore. i really thought it was slow before though. i must be going crazy.
"fps_max" will set the max allowed framerate.