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Halflife performance and others - help!
Hi All.
I bought my 32meg G400 today, trading it in for an ASUS 16 meg tnt.
As I'm a gamer at heart, the first thing i did was boot up halflife and see what it had to offer me. To be honest I got a better picture with the old tnt. The view was all jerky like when i turned vsync on on my tnt. So, I tried out tribes. EEEEk! My god what is going on here, its like the original version of tribes with opengl only sooo much worse.... wierd textures, the hand held's go black, the framerate lags like nothing else.... I try quake2 - mmmmmmm nice 90+fps @1024x768 but not mmm enuff to get over the other problems. I try avp - mmmm again, much better than the other.
However I play halflife and tribes much more than the others, so the others dont really count.
Now tribes I know about, its a problem with them, not the card.
However in halflife, things start to get really wierd:
1) In opengl i get wierd purple splodges and crap on the walls, plus strange flickerings here and there
2) In Direct3d, no splodges, a _very_ slight increase in framerate but _no_ decals show up at all - a big minus for d3d, am using ogl.
3)in both modes - vsync is on, no matter what i do it is stuck, all registry editing does nothing, the tweak program they give us does nothing, nothing works at all and i still get fairly average framerates, all jerky like - i dont mind the texture rip it smoothes out the pictures. Maybe i should increase my monitor refresh? This is driving me up the wall....
4) The strangest of all - there is almost NO difference in framerate running at 640x480 to running at 1280x1064!!!!! Both res's are all jerky...
I am seriously considering returning the card to the dodgy asian computer store i got it from and swappping it for a dv770 with a trusty tnt in it....
Any pointers anyone to convince me to keep this card?
I bought my 32meg G400 today, trading it in for an ASUS 16 meg tnt.
As I'm a gamer at heart, the first thing i did was boot up halflife and see what it had to offer me. To be honest I got a better picture with the old tnt. The view was all jerky like when i turned vsync on on my tnt. So, I tried out tribes. EEEEk! My god what is going on here, its like the original version of tribes with opengl only sooo much worse.... wierd textures, the hand held's go black, the framerate lags like nothing else.... I try quake2 - mmmmmmm nice 90+fps @1024x768 but not mmm enuff to get over the other problems. I try avp - mmmm again, much better than the other.
However I play halflife and tribes much more than the others, so the others dont really count.
Now tribes I know about, its a problem with them, not the card.
However in halflife, things start to get really wierd:
1) In opengl i get wierd purple splodges and crap on the walls, plus strange flickerings here and there
2) In Direct3d, no splodges, a _very_ slight increase in framerate but _no_ decals show up at all - a big minus for d3d, am using ogl.
3)in both modes - vsync is on, no matter what i do it is stuck, all registry editing does nothing, the tweak program they give us does nothing, nothing works at all and i still get fairly average framerates, all jerky like - i dont mind the texture rip it smoothes out the pictures. Maybe i should increase my monitor refresh? This is driving me up the wall....
4) The strangest of all - there is almost NO difference in framerate running at 640x480 to running at 1280x1064!!!!! Both res's are all jerky...
I am seriously considering returning the card to the dodgy asian computer store i got it from and swappping it for a dv770 with a trusty tnt in it....
Any pointers anyone to convince me to keep this card?
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