Gettin High Fps
<div class="IPBDescription">Will turning Vsync off help?</div> Lo, i have a geforce 4 grphcs card and i get FPS of around 60-70, i was told to turn vsync off but i dont fully trust thaty person (me wonderin whether it will kill my PC) so, is it safe to turn it off and wot does it do in the first place? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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where? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
vsync makes your frames always draw while the monitor is physically drawing downwards, in games 100 years ago, where twelve fps was common, it was neccessarry to make sure the game was being rendered to the screen while the screen was half done drawing the last frame, resulting in horrible shearing and epilepsy =/
nowadays it might make your game look a little nicer, but it caps your fps to the refresh rate. if your fps is always 60 no matter what, then likely youve got a more powerful comptuer but its being capped to a refresh rate of 60.
turn it off or increase refresh rate and your fps will go up.
for me with 30 to 55 fps, it doesnt do jack turning it off.
Click PROPERTIES. Click SETTINGS.
Click ADVANCED and there's an option in there
for V-Sync. I think the options are: ALWAYS OFF | APPLICATION PERFERENCE | ON
ATI users like myself will have the option to play with
V-Sync in OPENGL and DIRECT3D. (See the relatice tabs in ADVANCED)
Back in voodoo1 and 2 days, when you'd top out quake 1 at about 30fps at 640x480, it was always a good idea to turn vsync off, so that way you'd get a faster framerate.
But with a Geforce 4, your 70fps is fine. All VSync will do is make the picture quality much worse.
What VSync does is normally when its on, the video card will only go as fast as the monitor refresh rate, hence the Sync part. This ensures visual fidelity. Turning it off however, causes the video card to not hold back anything, and it just goes as fast as it can. This however causes unsync-ing of the monitor, which is the visual tearing and etc. you see.
In my opinion, its just not worth it at all on modern hardware to turn vsync off. But of course, that's just my opinion...
Considering that you build faster and the jp regen faster, why's it not worth it? If someone has a monitor with a refresh rate of 75 Hz, they build 25% slower.
My monitor is set to a refresh rate of 100 anyway <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> but it's still turned off.
Or more specifically, taking advantage of an exploit...
my refreshrate seems to be 60 hertz (going higher to 70 and whatnot makes my screen size smaller with large black borders)
I get 48-58 FPS; in combat it sometimes drops to around 30
My PCI texture memory is at 31 mb, should I increase that?
propterties ->
settings ->
advanced ->
geforce 2 MX/MX 400 tab ->
click "additional properties" if it's available, if not then the menu is already open
on the left there should be a little tree menu of some sort.
Expand this tree as much as possible so everything is visible.
Click open GL settings
Look for "vertical sync" and a dropdown menu
you can change it from there.