Re: 39 FPS on UT 2003 with Radeon 9700 !

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From: Johnny5
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:07

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I would check and make sure you don't have some cheesy program running at
startup sucking up all your cpu cycles. I have seen some programs put the
cpu in 100% utilization......Not good. Also disable any antivirus program
you have when you play games.
"LL Deja" <lld...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I just got my Radeon 9700 (non-pro) and expected to be able to fly in
> Unreal Tournament 2003, but in DM-Antalus with 8 bots and the
> following settings (1024x768 32bit and most of the bells and whistles
> turned on to High), I am getting an average of 39 FPS.  Is this
> normal?  I am using all the default settings that came with the driver
> installation.
>
> I have the driver date 12/18/2002 (not sure what driver version) from
> the ATI website.
>
> I have Athlon 1800+, 512MB, and Epox 8KHA+.  My CPU might not be top
> of the line, but 39 FPS just plain sucks.  Any help would be
> appreciated.  I have also found my Unreal Tournament (non-2003)
> framerate to have not improved much either at 1024x768.

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