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Article #89414Re: FPS Help
From: Superrat
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:42
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:42
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Descentman wrote: > "Superrat" <mikeabentley61@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:1130917103.643566.160700@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Someone please give me some help. I had 1800 mhz AMD XP based machne > > with a 64 meg nvidia geforce 2 video card with FPS at about 120. I put > > together an ABIT KV7, AMD XP 3000, NVidia FX 5500, 512 meg memory and > > only acheived a new frame rate of about 150 max. I tried another video > > card, NVIDIA 6600 GT and acheived the same results as the FX 5500. I > > even went so far to reformat and reload just to ensure the 6600 GT was > > on a fresh operating system but to no avail. I used 3D MARK to test > > the 5500 and the 6600 GT and achieved the results you would expect from > > each upgrade. I have used the "Secret time test" with framerate > > uncapped (999). Please help I am perplexed. > > > > This may be a dumb answer to a good question (sorry if so - BTW) > But is there an option to set the AGP in BIOS to it's full 8X? Or a MB > driver from Abit for that? > I'm not too familiar with Abit's MB's, or XP for that matter, but I've been > trying for years to get more frames on this ol' clunker to no avail. > > There have been some Descent / XP issues and fixes. Moon will help! > He knows everything! hehehehe > (seriously you'll find the answer here - we'll get 'er fixed - don't > dispair) > > Hey Moon! Haaallllpppp ! > > D Thanks Descentman, I had checked already for the 8X in the BIOS. I am using WIN98.
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