what kind of fps should I expect?

[dpopiz]

I'm going to be buildinga new comp for my friend and he hardly ever plays any 3d games, but he's sorta hooked on jedi outcast now. I've never seen it, so do you have an idea of what framerate he'd get in JO with an athlon xp1800+, 256mb of ddr, and the integrated prosavage graphics in the via km266? he'd be perfectly happy if he got 30fps at 640x480.

 

[BFG10K]

he'd be perfectly happy if he got 30fps at 640x480.

I think that system should be able to manage that.

 

[dpopiz]

do you have an idea of a number?

 

[AdamDuritz99]

Can he(you) really not spare just another 100 and get a radeon 8500 64mb card. It'll be worth it!!!

peace
sean

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: AdamDuritz99
Can he(you) really not spare just another 100 and get a radeon 8500 64mb card. It'll be worth it!!!

peace
sean

Thats not necessarily true. If he's happy with 30 fps (which I too think the mentioned system will be able to pull off) then what is the point of spending an extra 100 dollars?

 

[Bignate603]

because he may want to play that on a game one year from now.

 

[dpopiz]

he really just prctically never plays games...he doesn't need anything fast, but I would like to give him an estimate of the fps to compare to his current crap system

 

[Yvo]

Does your friend even know how much 30fps is?

Basically the moment the scene gets intensive, which I know it does... Jedi Outcast has its moments, it will go to a 15fps. The human eye, if I remember Biology correctly, will follow up to 45-50fps correctly. So I would say that 45fps is a good sweet spot.

I am not too familiar with the KM266 because when I ever I build an integrated system I use nforce based motherboards and they can handle 45fps easily at 640x480

Yvo

 

[CrazySaint]

Yeah, an nForce 420-based board with 2 sticks of RAM will perform on par with a gF2MX400, which should be plenty. Otherwise, for about $60 he could get a Radeon 7500 from Newegg which will pump out over 100FPS at 1024x768.