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What are some of the advantages / disadvantages of XP with regards to D3?
(as I am also a 98SE'er)
Thanks.
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"karx11erx" <karx11erx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Superrat,
>
> changing AGP speed usually affects frame rates only very minimally, if
> at all, because it only determines the speed at which the gfx card can
> access computer main memory to store and read textures from there. If
> the gfx card's RAM is enough to hold all textures, it won't do that.
>
> If your question is about frame rate in Descent 3: Did you check your
> cmd line parameters for a -framecap parameter? Try '-framecap 0' or
> '-framecap 999' to get rid of frame rate limiting by D3.
>
> And do yourself a favor and by Windows XP. ;)
>
> karx11erx
>
> Superrat wrote:
> > 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.
>