Counter-Strike/Q3 FPS PROBLEM

[DerkMan]

Ok guys,

i just got the new visiontek ti200 (thank you best buy )

yet i seem to be getting a low fps. With my old gforce 2 i was able to get a constant 99 fps. and with this new video card with at least 4 people on screen i drop to about 80 and on other maps can dip to an astonishing 45!!!. So this means no 2x fsaa. I really need help considering i did all the little things. Turned up fps_max and diabled vsync. I was hoping someone else would know if there may be something else i could try. Cause i know a bunch of you guys bought this video card and are maybe having the same problem as me. So if you can help in anyway, or have any ideas please post thanks

DerkMan

 

[rabsi]

hmm whit you'r v-sync off you should get higer frame rates ...
but they arent syn. whit you'r screen ....so the qualitie will be wurse than it is whit low frame rates
so don't turn it off

 

[Shack70]

You seem to have done everything right, so just one question. Did you upgraded the drivers after you installed the card??

 

[DerkMan]

yesum, i even tried another pair of older drivers but to no avail

 

[namatoki]

I had a similar problem after I installed the new XP drivers. Are you using D3D or OpenGL? The new XP drivers work much better in OpenGL. I was getting around 150 fps in Team Fortress Classic after switching to OpenGL from D3D. Hope that helps.

 

[wakka15]

I'm having a similar problem, any ideas?

 

[wakka15]

*BUMP*

Ok, more info. This drop in my framerate happened all of a sudden. I left home for a few hours, came back, and went from my usual 60 fps in Counterstrike (openGL at highest res) to 33 fps. Nothing I've done has fixed this problem. I've reseated the video card, gotten the newest drivers, tried older ones (21.83 to be specific). Nothing. Running XP as well. Unsure what the problem is... any ideas?

 

[Shack70]

Ok, I got an idea. It's a long shot, but here goes. XP reserves 20% of it's bandwith for some reason. Here is a way to turn that off:

How to get that 20% back!

try that. It may not be the video card, but your connection speed. If XP is limiting your bandwith, you may get lower framerates.

Like I said a longshot!

 

[mikework]

bandwidth has no bearing on the frames per second (eventho i would make sure your QoS is setup to reserve 0% in WinXP, really great tip!)
thing you need to look at is the actual driver thats installed (if you install 21.83 or whatever the det rev is, make sure that it lists that as being the actual driver thats loaded). all versions of NT dont like to install 'older' versions of drivers, once 'newer' versions are installed. youll point to the .inf that you want, but NT wont install that...it will think that your meaning to use the newest version and go ahead and reload that anyways. I could write a novel on how to get around this, depending on the hardware it can be a serious pain to load the correct driver, but atleast with nvidia drivers if you goto the properties of the display adapter it will tell you what version is running...so that parts easy. if it is the exact driver that you want, set the driver 100% back to defaults and start setting it back up from scratch. turn off the anti aliasing, vsync, make sure that everythings enabled like side band and 2x/4x agp ect, all that good stuff.

also, the very best way to test video card performance in a specific game is to make a test case (like a demo) then run that, get a baseline fps, make changes, run that demo again and see what numbers you get. simply watching that fps meter go up and down durning gameplay wont give you much...

hope this helps