How Well Does Ns Perform On Your System?

the_draft · September 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">FPS?</div> I get mixed signals as to how well NS performs. I've read posts from people claiming their GF4 MX400 is getting them a solid 60+ fps, but my experience is the exact opposite. Rather than ask what's wrong (cause I really don't think anything is) I thought I'd poll the NS community and see how my everything stacks up. Please include your FPS during heavy action, light action and nothing but the level, your system specs, your resolution and whether you use AA or AF.

System:
Athlon 2100xp
Radeon 9500 Pro
512mb DDR266

HL resolution
1280x960
No AA or AF

FPS:
No action: 99 (max for HL)
Light action: 50-60
Heavy action: 30-40 (never seems to drop below 30, no matter how hectic things get.)

Also, I don't really see any sort of performance gain from dropping the res. It runs the same at 800x600 as it does at 1600x1200.

Ahnteis · September 2003

If you have no difference based on res, then your gfx card isn't the bottleneck. You may want to check the refresh rate fixes. Could also be slow memory, slow HDD, etc.

Thief · September 2003

Hell I get a steady 12 fps, about 8 in heavy action.

Phear, 550MHz 125mb sdram 64mb GF4 card

ownage.

Untitled · September 2003

99 fps on the loading screen!

Typhon · September 2003

Athlon 1GHz
384MB
GF4 Ti 4400

800x600

99 in readyroom
40-60 running around level
30ish in a firefight

FPS drops off pretty quick if I go to higher resolutions.

Malakai1 · September 2003

Uhh, the game should pretty much run at max fps despite any settings and any resolutions with any cpu/vid card better than 1ghz and a gf2. AKA a 1ghz athlon and a gf3.

Mine's maxed all the time at 1280x960 max AA and AF on a slightly overclocked 9500 pro and a 2.2ghz athlon barton (memory at 200mhz).

Cheez1 · September 2003

Radeon 9700p, athlon xp 2700 at 2.2ghz and 1gb of RAM gives me an almost constant 99fps. Even during heavy battles and in turret farms i still get 50+ fps.

I <3 my computer <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

ANeM · September 2003

Draft, I pretty much have the same computer as your, but I usually seem to get about 70-90. Action or not.
I think my best so far was 80fps in a 1200 wpoly area. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>
Worst I've had was 22fps in a 1000wpoly area with something like 60 buildings in my view...

Daedalus · September 2003

System:
XP 2500+
1024 megs DDR400
GeForce 4 Ti4800

I get a solid 60fps in any situation running 4x AA at 1280x960. I've never seen it drop below 60fps even in a crowded marine base while under attack.

sk84zer0 · September 2003

I get 100 fps with my,
AMD XP 2400
512mb DDR RAM
64 mb GeForce 4 MX 440

My fps has been getting pretty low lately though, i dunno why

CommunistWithAGun · September 2003

99Fps@1152x864x32@75Hz No combat 50-99 combat

1.3Ghz Duron
512SDR
GF4TI4200128 8x
Winxp Sp1
DX9.0a
Recent Detonators. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'>

Talesin · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (the draft @ Sep 24 2003, 06:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I get mixed signals as to how well NS performs. I've read posts from people claiming their GF4 MX400 is getting them a solid 60+ fps, but my experience is the exact opposite. Rather than ask what's wrong (cause I really don't think anything is) I thought I'd poll the NS community and see how my everything stacks up. Please include your FPS during heavy action, light action and nothing but the level, your system specs, your resolution and whether you use AA or AF.

System:
Athlon 2100xp
Radeon 9500 Pro
512mb DDR266

HL resolution
1280x960
No AA or AF

FPS:
No action: 99 (max for HL)
Light action: 50-60
Heavy action: 30-40 (never seems to drop below 30, no matter how hectic things get.)

Also, I don't really see any sort of performance gain from dropping the res. It runs the same at 800x600 as it does at 1600x1200.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
R9500 Pro
Athlon T-Bird 1.4GHz
1.5GB SDR

Your problem may be that TruForm is enabled. It's a big hit, and only gets bigger as action intensifies. In-game, in the console type 'ati_npatch 0' to turn it off. On my rig, I get a fairly solid 99fps at 1600x1200x32 so long as it's off. Dropped to around your estimates when I installed Steam, and didn't realize that it reset the defaults... and ati_npatch defaults to 1. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

kwitcherbitchin · September 2003

I have an Athlon XP 1800, 512mb ddr, and a GF2 Pro 64mb
My fps stays pretty consistently between 80 and 99 @ 1600x1200 res.

Confused · September 2003

running xp1600+
512 2100 ddr
win2k
radeon 8500 with origanal drivers (the one on teh cd that came with the card)
99 constant
80-90 with 5 or so player/ objects
70-80 in a base with 32 players in it(endgame)

if i used the dx9 dirvers i max out at 40 fps 20 in a base

uberbroke · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwitcherbitchin @ Sep 24 2003, 09:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I have an Athlon XP 1800, 512mb ddr, and a GF2 Pro 64mb
My fps stays pretty consistently between 80 and 99 @ 1600x1200 res.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
:O

You must have special POWARS

Stewie · September 2003

Duron 800Mhz, 256 SDRAM, Geforce 2MX400 64 MB ...

I can get anything from 20-70 FPS ... In heavy combat I get around 20 FPS, in a empty RR I can get 70 .. on average I get between 30-40 FPS

SkulkBait · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ub3rbr0k3 @ Sep 24 2003, 11:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kwitcherbitchin @ Sep 24 2003, 09:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I have an Athlon XP 1800, 512mb ddr, and a GF2 Pro 64mb
My fps stays pretty consistently between 80 and 99 @ 1600x1200 res. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
:O

You must have special POWARS </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
You call that special powers?

1.13ghz PIII
gf2<b>mx</b> 64MB
256MB <b>SDRAM</b>
Win98 (XP Bloat == evil)

1600x1200x32
60-99FPS

Majin · September 2003

P4 2.4
512 DDR pc 2100
GF 4 ti 4600
Win 2k pro

100 in RR
60-100 in game
50-80 in action

BentRing · September 2003

2.4 P4

Radeon 9700 (sadly my mobo agp only supports 4x)

Windows XP

@99fps most everywhere but in major turrets farms may drop to 70

Ots · September 2003

Athlon XP +2400
768 Megggg 333Mhz DDR
GF Ti 4200

99 - 100fps usually.
70 - 100fps considering how major turret/oc farms im in.

Only bottleneck i have is my dial up connection <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Palmaneen · September 2003

P4 2.0 Ghz, 512 DDR, Geforce 3 ti 200, Win XP Home. Around 30 fps at all times. (Pretty low for my system if you ask me. Any suggestions?)

Nil_IQ · September 2003

Oh yay, my performance isn't teh suck! It sounds about right based on what you guys have said.

Radeon 9700 pro (thanks Talesin <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> )
Athlon 1800+ (i.e, 1533mhz)
384mb Ram

99 in the Ready room
70-80 just running around
50-60ish in action
Lowest ever, about 35 (but then I haven't even had it a week yet)

With the same system on a Radeon 7000 I got

60-70 in the ready room
40-50 normally
High 30's-low 40's in action
Lowest ever 11 (in heavy action of course)

Talesin, looks like mine is slightly better, but slightly worse performance... bah, must be hax <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

*edit* Or perhaps the 1.5gig of ram <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> *edit*

How Well Does Ns Perform On Your System?

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