Poor Gaming performance

[drslump]

hi all!

I just received my P. and the first impressions are very bad
I can not get more than 30fps on games like Op.Flashpoint or RTCW. In RTCW is sometimes unplayable 'cos of the slowdowns when there is a couple of ligths.

I'm sure it's not because of a hardware fault but maybe I'm using very wrong settings.

I run an Athlon XP 1.6 (1.4ghz), 512Mb PC133 ram, retail Parhelia 128mb at a resolution for gamming of 1024x768x32.
I don't have activated AA by default.

Could be this lack of FPS due to my "slow" system RAM?

thks.

[jkakaley]

I've never experienced system RAM speed making much of a difference in performance, but I though you had to have DDR Ram to run an Athlon XP.

[Fenrir(AVA)]

I have not had any slow downs on my system however I do have a monstrous system. Only slow I do have is with SOF2 using 32-bit textures thats all.

[jchung]

When I play HL:TFC, and there are more than 1 light source (e.g. two rockets fired and lighting up the walls), then my game slows down to around 30fps too. I play at 1024x768 w/ 16x FAA and AF. Without hte lightsources, I'm usually in the 70-90fps range. My system is a Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6 Ghz), 768MB DDR SDRAM, Parhelia (Retail).

Joo

[Sinistral]

- In America's Army, the framerate never drops below 40 on all the stages with 1024x768*32. And the same performance with 800x600*32 with 16xFAA (which makes it look A LOT better, no jaggies at all).

System:
Abit KR7A
AMD XP 1800+
256Meg DDR
Retail Parhelia

Your ram may be a cause of it. And seeing that you do have an AMD XP. Buying a stick of 512 DDR is very cheap now (although the prices are on the rise again ) . -

[Spidey DiG]

How do u get the framerate to show up in American's Army? Thx in advance.

[GT98]

I haven't had any problems with RTCW with the limited testing I have done with it. Tell you the truth it runs better then the R8500 I had in before with the res set to 1280x1024

[GT98]

I just put operation Flashpoint back on my Computer...It seems to run fine. Only problem I have is that I can't enable hardware T&L and the W-buffer in the game. Otherwise the performance is fine.

[Jediphx]

Hmm I also thought that DDR memory was required for an athlon XP

[OMnkyPnts]

I don't think it is required (as many motherboards without DDR ram have BIOS updates to enable the boards to use an XP), but PC133 greatly bottlenecks a system with an Athlon XP.

[Technoid]

Athlon XP is not geared to take advantage of membandwith like the PIV!!!

on a PIV DDR or SDRAM make a huge diff!

[jkakaley]

The AthlonXP I think has FSB of 266MHZ which means you need a RAM running at 266MHZ or higher which means that 133 will be a bottleneck for your system.

[trk2]

Originally posted by jkakaley
The AthlonXP I think has FSB of 266MHZ which means you need a RAM running at 266MHZ or higher which means that 133 will be a bottleneck for your system.

This is not quite true. The original thunderbird athlon also had bus speeds of 266. The only difference with the AthlonXP is the die shrink, the inclusion of a thermal diode and the addition of SSE. However, your memory will bottleneck your system around 5-10% unless your running a synthetic memory benchmark. That being said there is something else wrong with your system other then the memory. Check dxdiag to see if agp texturing is enabled. Also check powerstip to see what agp multiplier your currently running (the difference between 2x and 4x is negligible, but if your 1x you have a problem).

Unless you have some very specific motherboards that support both sdr and ddr, like some ecs boards or the a7a266, ddr ram is not an option for you.

[Goc]

Palomino core also has better prediction logic and superior pipeline... That's why Morgan core is able to perform almost as good as a standard T-bird with only 1/4 of cache...