🚀 go-pugleaf

On 8/10/2004 6:49 AM Mike in Mystic brightened our day with:

>>I'm using a GA8-IPE1000-G, P4-3.0E/800/1m L2(HT), 2 x 512m PC3200+ at
>>DDR400 dual channel, PNY FX5900-128 (400 core 850 ram), TB Santa Cruz.
>>XP Pro, nv 61.77 and DX9.0c  all stock clocked
>>just one run thru timedemo demo1 got 34.8
>>in game settings are 1024x768 - High -
>>in advanced, all on except vsync and aniso (OFF).
>>McG.
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>I've got a P4-3.2HT/800/512kb L2 with an 875P chipset and ICH5R South Bridge
>that supports my 500 Gb SATA RAID 0 hard drive set up.  I have 4 x 512
>PC3200 at DDR400 dual channel.  The GPU is a Radeon 9800 XT 256 Mb.  I'm
>also using a 20" flat-screen monitor (Dell 2001FP) with a 16-ms response
>time (and I can happily report that even Doom3 doesn't suffer any response
>time issues with this monitor).
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>Anyway, I need to run the timedemo tonight, but using FRAPS I've been
>monitoring my fps and I've been able to run Ultra quality at 124x768 with no
>AA and get 65-70 fps.  All advanced are on except vsync.  I tried 4x AA and
>the fps dropped in the toilet to about 25.
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>After reading through those tweaks that you gave the link to McG, it looks
>like I might be able to boost the fps over 100 if I drop down to High
>quality, but I wonder if the compression will change the game's "feel"
>enough to make it noticeable.  I'm sure having 60+ fps is just fine, anyway.
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>I'll repost after I run the timedemo tonight.
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>Mike
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The Doom 3 engine is capped at 60 fps so you can't be getting 65-70 
fps.  It can occasionally show more than 60 fps but that's just an fps 
display counter anomaly.

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