cpu or video card bottleneck

[JonnyBlaze]

can someone remind me whats the bottleneck when the fps stays the same from 640x480 to 1280x960 resolutions?

i forget which way it works.

thanks

JB

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
can someone remind me whats the bottleneck when the fps stays the same from 640x480 to 1280x960 resolutions?

i forget which way it works.

thanks

JB

It means that you are very cpu limited.

 

[selfbuilt]

Either that, or you have vsync turned on and you are maxing out at the refresh rate limit of your monitor (I presume you aren't refering to your system specs, which are hardly limited in any sense of the word .

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i was doing benchmarks in q3 comparing to the new p4 3.2 review. some reason my system doset get over 260fps doing the same demo. iv tried changing every setting and nothing gets it higher.

somethings wrong somewhere.

not that 260 is low or anything, but hyey are getting over 400fps. im using a1.32 of q3, but that should reduce the rates by that much.

JBLaze


edit: im running the new 3.5 ati drivers. maybe ill try the 3.4's and see what happens.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

went back to the 3.4's

score went up to 277fps.

must be a q3 setting somewhere.

anyone got any ideas?

JB

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
went back to the 3.4's

score went up to 277fps.

must be a q3 setting somewhere.

anyone got any ideas?

JB

What do you get in 3DMark 2k1 and 2k3? For all you who will flame me for reccomending this... its just to see if the problem is with Quake3 or something else...

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i get over 20k in 3dmark 01 and over 6k in 03 so im pretty sure its q3.

JB

 

[BenSkywalker]

Disable sound.

 

[BoomAM]

Set the maximum fps for quake 3 to something like 1000.

 

[Peter]

And then what? Your monitor isn't showing any more than 85 or 100 frames per second anyhow.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

it was set to 0, so i itred 1000 anyways. still 266.6

JB

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Originally posted by: Peter
And then what? Your monitor isn't showing any more than 85 or 100 frames per second anyhow.

nah, even with vsync im getting 160 in 800x600