posted 03-28- 10:00 AM               

I was getting an averge of 50 fps at max resolution, no fog, max detail, clouds and all. The game looked like a movie!

However...

This weekend something changed. Now I'm getting only 40fps, and sometimes as few as 3fps (that's not a typo, 3fps). The only changes prior to the problem were the installation of a game called powerslide (a driving game), and the WWI planes.

I tried to search the handy dandy doc, and the board on how to clear my texture cache, but I can't find it. I dowloaded the latest drivers, and verified I had DirectX7a, but I still can't clear the problem.

In Glide mode, while in cockpit, I get 10 or less fps. Outside views are in the 40s. When I'm in direct 3d device mode, the fps don't get any better, but the colors cycle on all textures.

The big clues I think are that the ground textures seem to change rapidly when I bottleneck. An open field will become trees, then river, then runway. I think my texture cache got hosed at some point.

posted 03-28- 05:05 PM               

So far I can't tell that the Glide is really worth it. Its great on that card, but I can't tell that it out FPS'd by TNT.