How do you increase framerates in a game?

[TheAvenger]

I play HL and TFC and CS.
I have a geforce2 GTS 32mb
Running windows ME
I just upgraded from my old comp. that had a 4mb onboard. lol so I was never interested before.
I now get 72fps in TFC and it just tops out it spikes lower but never comes above that by even 0.1.... don't mean to be greedy I'm just curious... would overclocking the vidcard do it or is there another way?

thx

 

[BFG10K]

What CPU do you have?

 

[TheAvenger]

p3 750 not overclocked

 

[stultus]

Check out this thread right next to yours. Basically, disabling V-sync and using the fps_max command will increase your framerate. But IMHO v-sync off looks very crappy. I'm more interested in figuring out how to get my monitor to refresh at a faster rate in-game so I can have a higer FPS with V-sync on. Can this be done?

 

[nitrousninja]

HL caps the framerate at 72 by default but you can uncap it. Check planethalflife.com for the console command. Good luck!

 

[PliotronX]

It's fps_max xx I believe.

 

[Renob]

anyone know how to increase your refresh rate I have my HL frame rate set to 100 but it stops at 85 that my refresh rate and it wont go any higher at 1024 res.

 

[Shagga]

What is your monitor refresh rate set to? Sounds like 85 to me

 

[TheAvenger]

ok i reset it to 100 by, like stated above, fps_max 100. Now I get in the 90's sometimes a hundred in the next couple of weeks I will be overclocking and then we'll see what it can reallly do

thanks for the help

 

[Delusion2001]

how about a better video card?

 

[TheAvenger]

LOL; sorry I can't afford the GeForce3. In my dreams....

 

[BFG10K]

The fastest framerates with your system will be achieved at 640 x 480 x 32. Try that setting and then work your way up from there.