Hey All! I recently have been loading up some older games to see how they run on my new video card. I purchased an X800pro. I have not overclocked it and is running at standard 470/450 clock speeds.
Now to my problem. I run UT2004 in onslaught and I can't get more than an average of 20-25fps with 31 bots+me. No matter what I do. Also at times it will drop fps down to 10-15fps if in a large open area.
However if I run 1 bot + me I can get 80-100 fps constant. I have played around with tweak guides and am now running d3d9dx.dll instead of the standard driver. It seemed to increase by about 5-10 fps. I also played around with all other video settings.
The strangest thing is that if I run at 640x480, lowest detail, low fog etc etc it still doesn't improve as soon as the 31 bots are loaded! I get the exact same fps!! According to ati catalyst center I am not running aa or af at all with direct 3d or open gl settings. The first thing I thought of was aa/af was full but even then it should run reasonably smooth.
Obviously there is a bottle neck! However that being said, with my old 9800pro card I didn't have this problem, in fact I never noticed low fps ever!!
Here are my system specs:
p4 3.0 using p4p800
2x512mb memory (how do I know what speed my ram is? I think I have 3200 but not sure)
sapphire x800pro running temp of 48 degrees max load with cat 4.9 *with ut2004 accorting to atitool
Now I realize that the p4 isn't as fast as some amd chips out there but I don't have any low fps in any other game. Even doom 3 with 1280x1024 with aa/af I get 48 fps with timedemo 1.
I would appreciate any advice or ideas you all might have. I do not post much to this forum however I do feel you are all the most knowledgable when it comes to performance problems with pc's.
Thanks,
Mike
update - I didn't realize my brother had purchased a x800pro and softmodded it to x800xtpe. However I have now corrected that and put everything to normal. Updated benchscores as well.
Now to my problem. I run UT2004 in onslaught and I can't get more than an average of 20-25fps with 31 bots+me. No matter what I do. Also at times it will drop fps down to 10-15fps if in a large open area.
However if I run 1 bot + me I can get 80-100 fps constant. I have played around with tweak guides and am now running d3d9dx.dll instead of the standard driver. It seemed to increase by about 5-10 fps. I also played around with all other video settings.
The strangest thing is that if I run at 640x480, lowest detail, low fog etc etc it still doesn't improve as soon as the 31 bots are loaded! I get the exact same fps!! According to ati catalyst center I am not running aa or af at all with direct 3d or open gl settings. The first thing I thought of was aa/af was full but even then it should run reasonably smooth.
Obviously there is a bottle neck! However that being said, with my old 9800pro card I didn't have this problem, in fact I never noticed low fps ever!!
Here are my system specs:
p4 3.0 using p4p800
2x512mb memory (how do I know what speed my ram is? I think I have 3200 but not sure)
sapphire x800pro running temp of 48 degrees max load with cat 4.9 *with ut2004 accorting to atitool
Now I realize that the p4 isn't as fast as some amd chips out there but I don't have any low fps in any other game. Even doom 3 with 1280x1024 with aa/af I get 48 fps with timedemo 1.
I would appreciate any advice or ideas you all might have. I do not post much to this forum however I do feel you are all the most knowledgable when it comes to performance problems with pc's.
Thanks,
Mike
update - I didn't realize my brother had purchased a x800pro and softmodded it to x800xtpe. However I have now corrected that and put everything to normal. Updated benchscores as well.
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