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The Shiznit
5th January 2004, 12:52
You may remember that I went off on one about fps and CoD a while back -this was remedied by a new graphics card. I ended up with a Radeon 9800 128Mb NP. I get a nice 100fps most of the time UNTIL it gets busy and lots of nades and smg's kick off.
On a busy night on our server my fps can drop down to 12?

Anyone have any ideas? Ive tried everything and cant make it stay constant?

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All help appreciated. (If its a match situation with on 5v5 or 9v9 etc. its fine.) oh and my board is only AGPx4 and not x8.
its a PIV2.8
512Mb RAM
AGP Saphire Radeon 9800 Atlantis
with a dot matrix printer.
Red Plague
5th January 2004, 13:34
You will find it very hard to keep a good high rate when all hell breaks loose as the machine has lots to render. I get 130fps usually and it can drop to about 20 depending on how messy it gets.

What speed is your RAM?

What have you done with your old graphics cards?

Remember - you are only as fast as your slowest component.
The Shiznit
5th January 2004, 14:44
Ram is PC133

Old card is an Nvidia FX5200 and its stopping paper blowing off my desk at the moment!

It does go up and down, I can live with it if it happens to others - especially if im looking down the barrel of an smg at the time !

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JonnyThunder
5th January 2004, 14:45
What have you faffed with in graphics settings? Have you looked at the GFX card control panel to see what you can tinker with?
The Shiznit
5th January 2004, 14:47
Well, ive overclocked the bugger to 9800 Pro speeds now - so Im going to let it rip this evening and see what happens!
Red Plague
5th January 2004, 15:29
PC133?????

YOU ARE ONLY AS FAST AS YOUR SLOWEST COMPONENT!

The fact you are runnign a x8 graphics card in a x4 board needs sorted as you have spent so much on the card.

My advice is, if you have the cash. new mobo / ram , and perhaps a CPU if u can push it (proividing u don't already have a decent CPU).

Recommended rig (preferably a Shuttle for LANing goodness)-

Abit NF7
512 PC3500 RAM (400) - note 2 x 256Mb paired if you are happy with 512, if you really want a gig go for 2 x 512Mb paired, nForce dual channel is very good.

You can chuck as much GPU power are you want at the game, it will still choke due to RAM & mobo.

If you arn't doing anything with the FX5200, I wouldn't mind taking it of your hands for a small fee, building a second PC for LAN sharing.

Step (thanks Jodo) into my office....
Jodo
5th January 2004, 15:42
Set? You mean "step"?