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Slow Frame Rates but a fast sytem?
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Posted by: shannonlujan
Hi all, glad I found this site, I hope it will be helpful.
Just finished some upgrades on my new Dell. It was a gift so obviously it came with sub-par hardware.
Here are my stats:
2.4ghz Intel Celeron
768 MB RAM
80 GB HD
ATI Radeon 9200 VGA
Integrated sound
Despite my system specs I'm still getting low frame rates during some game situations and during benchmark tests (www.glexcess.com)
My screensaver even lags. I'm using the one that came with my video card, its a chrome disk floating above a lake in the mountains, I can't get above 20 fps on 1024x768. On the openGL benchmark all of frame rates stay above 30 (most of them above 60 or more) except another water scene. An ocean and a sun sparkling above it. getting like 20 FPS.
During Battlefield 1942 in 30 or less player games on good servers with all the graphics turned up I can usually keep above 20 in intense combat. 30-60 players and I start dipping to below 10fps, especially in combat.
Wheres my weakpoint? Other people with weaker system have gotten much better benchmarks than my system. I am shutting down all programs like I am suppose to and turning my card on "performance mode" but still no good.
Also, what should my virtual memory be set at? Windows is controlling it right now and I'm not sure if I trust Mr. Gates autopilot.
Posted by: zorg
Your ram seems to be fine I wouldnt fiddle with the virutal ram unless you needed to, to be honest, my trust in celeron machine arent that good, also your card should run games, but wont allow you amazing framerates. Still it deos seem as if you are being slaped around a bit. Try setting windows to options to allow for best performance rather than best look. Also make sure you ahve the latest catalyst drivers and the latest Directx. I would personally with your system probably run games on medium settings rather than high. Try to see what framerates you get in something like Quake3, if you are still lagging under the 125fps mark something might be a bit weird.
Posted by: shannonlujan
I''ve got the latest drivers and DX9.0. I'll turn my settings down to medium and change windows option to "ugly" mode and I'll see what happens. Thanks.
Posted by: Zendu
Out of curiosity, press cntrl+alt+delete and see what your running in the background (of cource before you turn anything off, alot of that crap is important, blah blah, dont mess with what you dont know, blah blah)
Posted by: shannonlujan
I used to "end task" anything that is not a system or network program except for Explorer and Task Manager.
Now I use EndItAll (the first one for win98)
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