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Topic: What PC Update!
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Hawk
JAG
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posted 10-08- 10:12 AM
   
Well I bought a new rig. My buddy at Best Buy showed me a Micron Millennia 3000 that had been returned and gave me a hell of a deal.
PIII800
128, 133
30 gig hd
cd burner
dvd
TNT riva 2 (got to go)Geforce or Radeon next
mb (who knows)
I fell in love instantly with the case (huge) and the cooling (lots of fans and air ducts)Ok now heres the prob. I got 32fps in sdoe sitting in the B-17, in 1024 (zoomed back all the way) with my PII-300 voodoo 3000 rig, and now only get 10 more fps in 1024, same scene, with the new rig. Whats up with that? ------------------
Hawk
http://rcwarbirds.com/
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Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 10-08- 10:17 AM
Spanky here..
SDOE loves glide. The reason for the low FPS is that tnt2. I wouldn't even consider a radeon, ATI cards are always bad for driver problems. Stick with at least a geforce or voodoo. If you play ALOT of SDOE then go voodoo. IP: Logged |
goth
Pilot
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posted 10-08- 11:10 AM
Sounds like a great system.
I'm jealous!
I'm not a guru, but I'll take a stab at some things to check o your FPS problem. 1) Is the video on the board, or on a card? On board video usually shares your ram, rather than having dedicated ram. 2) If the card is AGP,are your bios settings right? Your AGP aperature shouldn't be more than 1/2 the total system ram. 3) Be sure you have the latest drivers for your video card, chipset, video bios, and system bios. The Detonator drivers are very good usually, and I picked up a few fps when I updated them on my old TNT1. 4) Check to be sure how many colors your system is running in. 5) Be sure there aren't background programs running, like virus protection programs. 6) If you are altering the fog settings in SDOE, don't push it back too far. I was really pissed when I got my Athlon and the FPS sucked. Then Tailslide gently reminded me that setting the fog ALL THE WAY BACK might be unreasonable. It spead way up when I brought the fog back in. Just some suggestions. Congrats on the new machine. IP: Logged |
Whirlwind
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posted 10-08- 02:47 PM
Most of my friends who buy off the shelf computers usually have the ritual of using fdisk to delete all the partitions, repartitioning, and then reinstalling everything just because about 1GB of the space on the HD usually turns out to be AOL, Happy Computing for Idiots tutorials, and other garbage. In your case, you might want to do it just because it is a return system.Anyways, the background programs usually eat FPS, especially the virus checker, which normally scans every piece of data that moves on the system. IP: Logged |
Hawk
JAG
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posted 10-08- 03:03 PM
Ok, I did go in and uncheck everything that loads except systray so when I three finger it there is only systray and explorer showing.The vid card has it's own agp slot but the sound (creative) is on board. There was something awhile back about the color settings, I am running high color, 16bit at the moment, should I be using something else for sdoe? I am sure this 800 is capable of much more and some tinkering is in order. Thanks for the replys guys. [This message has been edited by Hawk (edited 10-08-2000).] IP: Logged |
Razer
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posted 10-08- 03:10 PM
the reason you get lower FPS on TNt is the card is more of a CPU based card. It needs more CPU power to run, where 3dfx does most of it's stuff on the video card itself , so less cpu is needed. just in case you was wondering.  nice puter, though i like to build mine since that way i know what is going in. IP: Logged |
Mirthain
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posted 10-08- 10:15 PM
But the TNT2 is optimized for P2400's, so that isn't the problem here.. I believe it is the difference between glide and D3D.... you could drop that Voodoo back in and perhaps get some good performance out of it in this new rig till you get a really fast card.....
I agree with the ATI stuff mentioned above.... they take a long time to sort out problems in their drivers... so I would be sceptical of the new chipset for awhile....
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Hawk
JAG
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posted 10-09- 12:03 AM
Hehe been thinkin about droppin in my old voodoo 2 sli.Jag, I tried to move this topic to the "off topic" forum but can't, could you please, thanks. [This message has been edited by Hawk (edited 10-09-2000).] IP: Logged | |
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