Re: How to unlock frame rate from refresh rate?

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From: goPostal
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:54

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"Vis" <darrend43removethis--Bit@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> You could try the ogl renderer from
>
> http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/
>
> here is an atari forum thread that may be of use
>
> http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=458091&highlight=cpuspeed
>
> An old TrufF thread that i used in the past
> http://www.truff.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2508
>
> About 2/3 of the way down are some good setting that cured problems with 
> my ati 4870
>
> http://www.wiki4games.com/index.php?title=Unreal_Tournament
>
> Also if you have an Intel with speedstep or AMD was running cool and 
> quiete disable it as UT determins game speed at boot if your cpu then 
> throttles up because you gameing it all runs to fast.
>
> AMD has a driver for its athlon X 2 that load balances the 2 cores that 
> may also help.
>
> Of corse i may be talking out of my behind  :-)
>
> TTFN
>
> Vis
>
>

Nope you are right on. It's also caused by towers having power management 
enabled also (like the shut-monitor-down-at 30-minutes stuff). It also 
throttles the cpu speed down. I had a rig for the kids that I had to disable 
all that stuff on.

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