What The Hell?

Porno_SmurfPorno_Smurf Join Date: 2003-01-24 Member: 12680Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Crappy FPS!</div> Ok, this is stranger then hell.. I had a TNT 2 Ultra 32meg card and I got me a geforce2 mx400 64meg card today. My old card got around 40-60fps, but this new one is only getting 15-30fps constantly, Wtf?

Here's are my system specs:
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~1002 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG, 2/28/2002
Total Physical Memory 320.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 182.64 MB
Total Virtual Memory 1.38 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.15 GB
Page File Space 1.07 GB
Name NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Adapter Type GeForce2 MX/MX 400, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Installed Drivers nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 6.13.10.4109
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  • ChargeCharge Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13144Members
    did it happen in all games? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Porno_SmurfPorno_Smurf Join Date: 2003-01-24 Member: 12680Members
    Happens in CS a little... NWN looks good and runs so much better... But NS just looks like crap and the FPS is just ****.. I've tried all those tweaks in the webbed topic, and they don't work.
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    Download the detonators 40, they rock...
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  • PaqPaq Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10876Members
    edited February 2003
    Which one you use?
    OpenGL
    Direct3D

    I use OpenGL and i have the same geforce2 mx 400 card. And i also have 1000 Mhz processor...
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  • GrendelGrendel All that is fear... Join Date: 2002-07-19 Member: 970Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Playtester
    You are running a hopelessly old set of drivers.

    Try one of the 31 series for improved performance. You'll actually get better performance than with the more recent 40+ drivers, as they are optimised for the GF4 range.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    To add to Gren's able response, I might suggest running the game with -32bpp <b>removed</b> from the NS shortcut as well, if you have it in there. Doing so will gain you quite a few frames, at a loss of some picture quality.
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  • ChargeCharge Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13144Members
    his driver version is 41.09 <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--Charge+Feb 18 2003, 11:33 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Charge @ Feb 18 2003, 11:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> his driver version is 41.09 <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Ehhhh, and? I believe Grendel was saying he should try reverting to slightly older, but more Gf2-optimized drivers...
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  • ChargeCharge Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13144Members
    41.09's suck anyways, no offense <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • eagleceaglec Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9948Members, Constellation
    41.09 was better than 40.xx because 40.xx had bugs that caused many BSOD's!
    I use 42.68 now which seems pretty good and gave me a couple more fps under laod but tbh I have got to say I am shocked at your choice of card. The TNT2u was the top of the range Second Generation card, the Geforce2MX was a gutted GeForce2 chip that barely outperformed the aging TNT2u and the MX400 was a late rebadge to shift some of the leftover parts <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
    I hope it was cheap because you could have had a Geforce4MX for under ?40uk and that would have been a real spead increase...

    Anyway you should still get a decent framerate out of this card so go to control panel, display, settings, advanced, GeForce, Performance and ten also check out the opengl settings. Right click on each setting and select 'what's this?' it will tell you how to set it for best performance.
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  • ChargeCharge Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13144Members
    What's this? = No help topic associated with this item.


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  • Porno_SmurfPorno_Smurf Join Date: 2003-01-24 Member: 12680Members
    I returned that card because that file to make it 64megs was taking 99% resources.. I got a radeon 7000 64megs.. Anyone know any tips for this card?
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  • eagleceaglec Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9948Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Charge+Feb 21 2003, 05:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Charge @ Feb 21 2003, 05:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What's this? = No help topic associated with this item.
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    Dunno what your looking at but every nvidia setting on my system has a vey usefull help topic associated with it.
    As for the Radion 7000. I've not has a lot of experence but best performance would be had by turning of 32bit colour, Vsync, Antialiasing, Trueform and antistropic filtering.
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