Frame Rate

MA_Zak33 · Post by **MA_Zak33** » 21 Jul 2005 15:27

Anyone wanna share their FPS with us?

Get Team Speak Overlay running...activate the FPS on it, so it sohws in the corner.

Run Black Death from the Tracks, at your favoured settings, and see what it dips to as the IL-2's run along the road, and the AJ-2 cassettes explode.

It's not scientific, but its a good test! Just note the lowest number.

Very easy to do too.

Post by **MA_Hat** » 21 Jul 2005 15:35

or alternatively..

just type fps START SHOW in the game console

(bring up the Game Console using shift + tab)

I dont have any tracks called Black Death or anything like that.. I must have deleted all the stock ones that came with the game at some time or other

MA_Zak33 · Post by **MA_Zak33** » 21 Jul 2005 15:39

ahaaa.....didnt know about shop fps. Nice one

Pick another track Hat, with lots of bangs and crashes.

Run it....twice, and see lowest.

then drop graphic setting IN GAME to the lowest so it looks like a water colour painting

run again.

Post results here.

MA_Clingy · Post by **MA_Clingy** » 21 Jul 2005 21:51

800x600x32

My Normal Settings - Object and details excellent/perfect, others medium/high > 48avg 62max 16min

At Perfect - 45avg 64max 15min

At Lowest - 56avg 63mac 28min

Then just for a test at 1600x1200x32 at perfect settings 26avg 59max 12min

Post by **MA_Hat** » 21 Jul 2005 22:40

can some1 mail me that track?

MA_Luke · Post by **MA_Luke** » 21 Jul 2005 22:47

Jesus I need a new CPU...

On my normal settings - 1024x768, max everything, 2xaa (Worked fine pre-4.0) - AVG 16 fps

On cartoon settings - 800x600, very low everything, no aa - AVG 28 fps.

So its not pixel-pushing power, its definitely CPU/RAM that's my problem

Sent you the track Hat - squadron email addy

Post by **MA_Hat** » 22 Jul 2005 01:07

Luke.. for some reason emails from you to my squadron email addy dont get here.... others do, yet yours dont . You sure you got the correct addy for me there in your address book?

MA_Luke · Post by **MA_Luke** » 22 Jul 2005 08:07

hat(at)ma-squadron.co.uk

Weird.

Post by **MA_Hat** » 22 Jul 2005 08:54

most strange indeed.

MA_Zak33 · Post by **MA_Zak33** » 22 Jul 2005 10:37

MA_Luke wrote:Jesus I need a new CPU...

On my normal settings - 1024x768, max everything, 2xaa (Worked fine pre-4.0) - AVG 16 fps

On cartoon settings - 800x600, very low everything, no aa - AVG 28 fps.

So its not pixel-pushing power, its definitely CPU/RAM that's my problem

/Zak walks up to the penalty spot

he shoots....
HE SCORES!!!!!!!

It IS CPU now..not vid card

UNDER CLOCK your CPU's and THEN you'll see struggle....
I knocked mine to Althon 1400 speeds
My X800Pro struggled even at 640x480 in water colour mode......BECAUSE its the CPU not the vid card that effects frame rate at the mo.

Just wanted Hat to know that maybe his card is not the major trouble

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 22 Jul 2005 18:43

SO anyone reckon if I upgrade my XP2200 I might squeeze a bit more life out of my Ti4200..?

MA_Dak · Post by **MA_Dak** » 22 Jul 2005 19:10

MA_DanglyBob wrote:SO anyone reckon if I upgrade my XP2200 I might squeeze a bit more life out of my Ti4200..?

Ive an XP2000 on a Epox 8K3A Mobo, whats the max i could run on that anyone know?

PE_Kras · Post by **PE_Kras** » 22 Jul 2005 21:58

The Black Death Track

Avg FPS is 44

in-game settings are on highest but not on perfect mode
1200x900 32bit
Sound on highest settings also, except Hardware exceleration (1 notch down).

Trig · Post by **Trig** » 23 Jul 2005 01:03

MA_Dak wrote:
MA_DanglyBob wrote:SO anyone reckon if I upgrade my XP2200 I might squeeze a bit more life out of my Ti4200..?

Ive an XP2000 on a Epox 8K3A Mobo, whats the max i could run on that anyone know?

Not a bad board, I had one of them back in the day, find out what core revision your chip is and then do a search in the OC database n see what other people have gotten out of them, should give u a rough idea...

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 23 Jul 2005 20:29

Blackdeatth trk

avg fps 26

lowers to as much as 10-15 with lots of explosions.....

run in 1024 res with normal gfx settings.
Looks like I ought to be trying 800x600....

Edit/ Doesn't seem to make any difference. Screen res or 32/16 bit.

Post by **MA_Hat** » 23 Jul 2005 20:44

can someone mail me the blackdeath track please?

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 23 Jul 2005 22:03

YGM

Just a couple of points.. My largest dip is when the LA5 collides with the LW plane.
And it's not cassettes used on the road traffic, it's parafrags...

Trig · Post by **Trig** » 24 Jul 2005 05:35

someone send it to me as wel plz

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 24 Jul 2005 10:25

Here you go....

http://www.rob.sansom1.btinternet.co.uk ... Death.ntrk

MA_Zak33 · Post by **MA_Zak33** » 24 Jul 2005 12:35

Bob....you see my point too as well now

ITS NOT THE VID CARDS!!!!

Its the CPU power now.

Rias has a Rad9000 and its fine and dandy..BECAUSE she has an XP2600 with 1gig of ram in it.

XP2100 and 2000 were often the old palomino core and were pretty un-clockable

dunno about 2200 tho.

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 24 Jul 2005 17:41

OK, so I might not see too much improvement with my new aquisition then.....

Best I look out for XP3000 as well then, should fit in my KD7 board OK......

MA_Luke · Post by **MA_Luke** » 24 Jul 2005 20:15

AFAIK XP2200 was exclusively Pally core, 2400+ are guaranteed Thoroughbred so, unless you're unlucky enough to get a Tbred 'A' core (Very few manufactured - much more likely to get a Tbred 'B'; much better clockers) you should be able to clock it well.

XP 1700-2100 can be one of Pally, Tbred A or B so it depends on the age of the chip - Anything older than 2 1/2 years (Made 2002 and before) is a Pally, anything aged between 2 1/2 and 2 years ago could be a Tbred A and anything made between beginning of 2003 and now is likely to be Tbred B and a good overclocker.

Not sure what chip your board can take up to Dak - no info on it on the Epox site, though it is a KT333 chipset so can probably take any XP chip except the 400 fsb Barton's - if not at stock then probably with a bios flash.

SmoothNuts · Post by **SmoothNuts** » 24 Jul 2005 20:24

MA_DanglyBob wrote:OK, so I might not see too much improvement with my new aquisition then.....

Best I look out for XP3000 as well then, should fit in my KD7 board OK......

Thats a 128Mb 9800pro bob? What are you upgrading from?

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 24 Jul 2005 21:36

Ti4200....

MA_Thorn · Post by **MA_Thorn** » 25 Jul 2005 01:28

That's a 9800pro?

Got overkill heatsink?

SmoothNuts · Post by **SmoothNuts** » 25 Jul 2005 07:06

You should see a very nice increase in speed and graphical quality i would think bob, with that upgrade, but why the hell does it have such a hooge heatsink?

MA_Zak33 · Post by **MA_Zak33** » 25 Jul 2005 07:38

to keep it quiet. 9800 pro's are relatively easy to cool silently with a sink that size.

9800 Pro is one of the best cards ever made. Period. So should be nice eye candy upgrade.

But the frame rate is still controlled by the CPU on most mid range PC's in IL2 at the mo.

Luke's right about those CPU's. I guess Dak's is a Palamino, so not overclockable.

But its quite a fast cpu anyway.

MA_Tumble · Post by **MA_Tumble** » 25 Jul 2005 08:17

MA_DanglyBob wrote: And it's not cassettes used on the road traffic, it's parafrags...

Ahem... AO-10s actually.... parafrags aren't a loadout option on the IL2

:bob:

SmoothNuts · Post by **SmoothNuts** » 25 Jul 2005 15:35

MA_Zak33 wrote:to keep it quiet. 9800 pro's are relatively easy to cool silently with a sink that size.

9800 Pro is one of the best cards ever made. Period. So should be nice eye candy upgrade.

But the frame rate is still controlled by the CPU on most mid range PC's in IL2 at the mo.

Luke's right about those CPU's. I guess Dak's is a Palamino, so not overclockable.

But its quite a fast cpu anyway.

Mine is silent, but it dosn't take up two expansion slots though!

Trig · Post by **Trig** » 25 Jul 2005 15:44

My 9800Pro's silent as well, and it doesnt take up ANY slots....

Takes up some shelf space tho

shoit · Post by **shoit** » 25 Jul 2005 19:14

I'd love to test my A64 setup with GT6800 but none of my tracks will play, they just seem to freeze at the outset?! Is this a bug to thwart my superior frame rate or just a problem with meh pc?

Kev

MA_Dak · Post by **MA_Dak** » 26 Jul 2005 00:58

Bitten bullet got this coming from Mav

http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs. ... Video+Card

Trig · Post by **Trig** » 26 Jul 2005 10:00

PE_Kras · Post by **PE_Kras** » 26 Jul 2005 12:50

Just tried in perfect mode...looks amazing and the FPS was an average of 35.
In perfect mode the difference between highest and lowest seems more stable.

in Excellent mode i can get AVG of 45, minimum hitting 8FPS and highst hitting 90FPS. so not so sturdy. but thats the settings ill stick to.

MA_DanglyBob · Post by **MA_DanglyBob** » 28 Jul 2005 19:10

My 9800 pros arrived, just going to fit it....

Hope I'm not dissapointed

MA_Clingy · Post by **MA_Clingy** » 29 Jul 2005 23:37

shoit wrote:I'd love to test my A64 setup with GT6800 but none of my tracks will play, they just seem to freeze at the outset?! Is this a bug to thwart my superior frame rate or just a problem with meh pc?

Kev

I'm running A64 3000+ and 6800GT

shoit · Post by **shoit** » 21 Aug 2005 15:59

Solved that problem! Seemed to be something of a problem with my install! What graphics settings do you run (AAxAF?)

Kev