Best Performance in Elite Force with G400

[fox]

I'm just wondering if anyone can suggest the best config settings to get the smoothest performance from Elite Force?

I've set the display to 800x600 and have put most colour depth settings that I can find to 16-bit but it still runs very jerky, espescially when compared to Quake III! I think Online HM's are much smoother so maybe it's just the AI running at a huge overhead?

Cheers

Jeff

System:

K6-III/450 with 64MB RAM
G400 32MB DH
SB Live 1024 Value
15GB HDD, 48xCD
Hayes Accura 56k Modem (Ext)
Win 98SE
PD 6.xx beta drivers
I've not installed TurboGL as I've been told that it doesn't give all that significant a speed boost.

[Joel]

I see two things. One I would put another 64MB of memory in that machine. No only will it help in some games but overall system performance too. The second thing is that we all know that the AMD CPUs, especially the K6 and below, do not perform well in Quake based games. It's because of it's FPU and the fact that Quake based games are written to specificaly take advantage of the Intel FPU.

I would also stay away from the TGL with the version 6.x drivers. It work better with the 5.x drivers.

As far as config settings go, I haven't played around much with them yet.

Joel

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 06 October 2000).]

[fox]

I managed to get another 10-15fps by disabling SB16 emulation in hardware manager.

I now get a pretty playable 40+fps most of the time but I notice when the on-screen action goes down I can get up to 100 fps.

I agree about needing another 64MB RAM. Whenever I can afford it

Cheers

Jeff

[antdude]

Originally posted by fox:
I managed to get another 10-15fps by disabling SB16 emulation in hardware manager.
Jeff

I didn't know this was possible! I wonder if that can affect my Pentium III 600 Mhz. Anyone else tried this yet? I am at work right now .