10FPS less after using WinXP Pro with my GF2 MX....... why???

[heng1028]

why??

 

[afireinsideme]

that's the price of stabilty........this is very common. Most games go down, some remain the same, and some get like 2 fps better. What game are you talking about?

 

[Brian48]

Get use to it. What did you expect? WinXP is a completely different OS. On the whole, OpenGL should run slightly faster under the NT kernel. Direct X 7 based games would most likely run slower while games based out of Direct X 8 would probably stay the same or slightly faster in some cases.

 

[heng1028]

i was playing CS

i used to get 72 fps and now i only get 60fps

 

[vss1980]

Now you see, this isn't a problem with Win XP being slower (if anything there is hardly a difference in Half-Life/CS).

The display refresh rate in games in Windows 2000/XP drops down to 60Hz sometimes no matter what the normal 2D desktop setting is. As V-Sync is enabled on your graphics card driver, that also limits the frame-rate to 60 fps. Also, the reason it stopped at 72 fps in Win9x/ME was that Half-Life also limits the frame-rate in the game.
More than likely your computer can do much better.

To get around the problem download NVmax to turn off Vsync and download the nvidia Win2K/XP refresh rate fix utility.
Turning VSync off will allow the frame rate to work independently of the refresh rate (which may cause some screen tearing - faster, but some people dont like it) while the refresh rate fix will allow you to set a different refresh rate in 3D games.