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Article #172050Re: 39 FPS on UT 2003 with Radeon 9700 !
From: Jules Augley
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:33
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:33
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"Johnny5" <know...@knowhere.com> wrote in message news:LyqX9.31408$vd6.6193979@news3.news.adelphia.net... > I would check and make sure you don't have some cheesy program running at > startup sucking up all your cpu cycles. I have seen some programs put the > cpu in 100% utilization......Not good. Also disable any antivirus program > you have when you play games. > "LL Deja" <lld...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:c4d04f8b.0301212001.303ccd2b@posting.google.com... > > I just got my Radeon 9700 (non-pro) and expected to be able to fly in > > Unreal Tournament 2003, but in DM-Antalus with 8 bots and the > > following settings (1024x768 32bit and most of the bells and whistles > > turned on to High), I am getting an average of 39 FPS. Is this > > normal? I am using all the default settings that came with the driver > > installation. > > > > I have the driver date 12/18/2002 (not sure what driver version) from > > the ATI website. > > > > I have Athlon 1800+, 512MB, and Epox 8KHA+. My CPU might not be top > > of the line, but 39 FPS just plain sucks. Any help would be > > appreciated. I have also found my Unreal Tournament (non-2003) > > framerate to have not improved much either at 1024x768. > > If you are running the benchmarks in the UT2003/Benchmark folder then that is about right. I have 9700 pro on XP2400+ and I get just over 41fps at the same settings. If it is not the benchmark exe then I know nothing. Jules
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.hostname.nl!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "Jules Augley" <aug...@HOMEbtinternet.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati,alt.games.unreal.tournament2003,alt.games.unreal Subject: Re: 39 FPS on UT 2003 with Radeon 9700 ! Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Lines: 32 Message-ID: <b0lohc$fkt$1@knossos.btinternet.com> References: <c4d04f8b.0301212001.303ccd2b@posting.google.com> <LyqX9.31408$vd6.6193979@news3.news.adelphia.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-1-135-174.in-addr.btopenworld.com X-Trace: knossos.btinternet.com 1043228013 16029 213.1.135.174 (22 Jan 2003 09:33:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-co...@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:33:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit