Well, I'm posting my setup too...
System - Windows XP SP2/Kubuntu 6.06 LTS 32bit
CPU - AMD64 Athlon 3200+ (~2100 MHz absolute freq.)
RAM - 1024 MB DDR-SDRAM
GPU - XFX GeForce 7600 GT XXX-edition, 256 MB DDR2 memory - no idea about frequencies
Launcher Video settings: 1280x1024@32bit, OpenGL, Trilinear text. depth, 16xAF, general settings High, Use large textures on.
GPU settings for 3.6.9 official exe:
AA - 8xS
AF - Application controlled (16xAF set in Launcher)
Image quality set to highest possible
VSync On
Forces trilinear mipmapping
Uniform surface texture Enabled (dunno about exact translation - my control panel is Finnish)
Extension limit - disabled
Hardware acceleration - one display
Trilinear optimization - disabled
Anisothropic mip filtering otimization - disabled
Anisothropic sample optimization - disabled
Gamma Correction anti-aliasing - enabled
Transparency Antialiasing - Supersampling
Triple buffer - enabled
Negative LOD Level - Clamp
Launcher flags:
GFX - All
on except Disable Scale to Window
Game Speed - All
onHUD - All
on except analog ballistic ammo gauge, 'cause I don't need it for the time being.
Gameplay - All
on except features for TBP and WCSaga are off when I play standard FS campaigns.
Audio - Preload mission game sounds
Multi - All
offTroubleshoot - All
offExperimental - Ese specular alpha for env mapping
on, others off.
Custom flags: -ambient_factor 18 -no_emissive_light -spec_exp 16.7 -spec_point 0.6 -spec_static 0.9 -spec_tube 1 -fov 0.7
Max FPS: 120 (hardware limits to 60 but the game counter shows up to 120)
Average FPS - above hundred. Ie. almost always up to what my TFT screen can do - 60 Hz only...
Minimum FPS - sometimes, on huge explosion fest, FPS can briefly drop to 30-40, but it's always very much playable.
On Linux side, I can boost Anti-Aliasing up to 16x level, but then the general FPS drops to 50-70 when anything but empty sky is visible. <20 FPS when something big explodes, so I only use that to take kick ass screenshots for background etc.
By the way, may I suggest a suitable mission for estimating the minimum FPS on certain settings?
Axem's Just Another Day: Electric Boogaloo's huge Disco Inferno mission "Well Duh", where Alpha one and Not Derek Smart clash.
It gives me absolute down peak FPS of ~10 when Not Derek Smart ruins the Disco Show. Most of the time even that stays above 20 FPS though. Screenie attached.
Dropping Anti-Aliasing down to "only" 4x gives me practically monitor-limited FPS on almost every situation.
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