Sttopid Fps

s3xy_korean_bois3xy_korean_boi Join Date: 2003-05-21 Member: 16551Members
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hmmm if get new ram will that make any difference to my loading time, or fps ?
system specs
penitum 3 .667mhz
win 200
128 mb ram
32 mb tnt 2
onboard sound card

everything is tweaked i overclocked my card

but will getting ram make any difference ? i might be getting 256mb more on sun
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  • GargamelGargamel Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11773Members
    I have Duron 1200MHz, but 512MB RAM.
    Your system definetely needs RAM.
    256MB are minimum!
    But I dont think this will help much with fps. It can help your System not accessing the HardDisk that much, loading time should be better.
    I didnt understand how many MHz your pentium (3?) has.
    If you need FPS, you need better than old TNT2!
    I have GeForce2Ti and still sometimes dropped fps...
    If you keep this computer for more than 1-2 years, go buy 1x256MB Ram.
    Good Luck.
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  • Soylent_greenSoylent_green Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11220Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    667 MHz p3? 66 MHz sdram then(with a multiplier of 10)? Well, I would say memory and/or processor speed is probably your bottle neck even though the tnt2 card isn't exactly stupendously fast... Adding more memory won't do much for you in Half-life unless you are running lots of programs and services in the background. To test if your graphics card is the bottle neck you can try increasing the resolution slightly and see if it drastically affects your framerate and if your framerate is stable when standing still(do not run as a server on a lan when testing, then you will use much more CPU and memory resources than when playing on another server.). If the above are not true then you are bound by something else.

    If your graphics card is the bottle neck, try lowering the resolution, running in 16-bit colour mode if you aren't allready, try using r_dynamic 0(does not turn of all dynamic lights, only the phasegates dynamic light on world polygons). Don't bother touching gl_texturemode , you can make things extremely ugly and you gain almost no performance.

    Since you are running windows 2000 some extra memory might be useful anyway, even though it might not help with HL...
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  • sickboysickboy Join Date: 2003-09-13 Member: 20804Members, Constellation
    edited September 2003
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    128 mb ram
    32 mb tnt 2<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Upgrade anything and everything you can afford. I'd start with the vid card, then memory, then processor.
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  • RokiyoRokiyo A.K.A. .::FeX::. Revenge Join Date: 2002-10-10 Member: 1471Members, Constellation
    If you're going to upgrade your video card then I'd suggest doing some research before you buy.

    First off, as it stands right now it looks like ATI Radeon is the way to go if you want HL2 to look good and play well (With the current drivers ATI performs much better across the board, but ESPECIALLY well when running in DX9 mode. Valve is planning to force even the latest nVidia cards to run in dx8.1 mode in order to keep the fps comparable between the cards, which means you miss out on a bunch of really cool shiny features).

    However that out of the way, in most other cases you find nVidia and ATI cards performing comparabily with each other, so you're money isn't wasted either way. The big difference to note however is that nVidia cards aren't very CPU dependant, while the Radeons definately are. What this means is that if you're going to buy a Radeon, make sure you buy a good enough CPU to keep up with it.

    In many benchmark comparisons on the Radeon 9800 Pro cards you see that with a 3.0 ghz cpu the Radeon card performs better than the latest nVidia FX card on the same CPU, and yet with a 2.0Ghz CPU the Radeon gets blown out of the water by the same nVidia card also on a 2.0Ghz CPU...

    Each Radeon card seems to have it's own bottom limit in your main CPU clock before frames start to fall. Pick a price range, find a Radeon card in that range and then look around to find the kind of CPU power you'll need to support that card. Then compare it to a Geforce card of a similar price range and see what kind of CPU you could get away with there.

    I'd suggest visiting <a href='http://www.extremetech.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.extremetech.com/</a> and seeing what advice they have to offer. They have plenty of options for the guy wanting advice on a cost-effective machine that can hold it's own on the latest games.
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