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Title: Ah, fishpaste. Graphic card questions.
Post by: Blitzerland on September 01, 2004, 08:53:38 pm
I have an Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 card.

What frame rate should I expect from this?

Yeah, I know. Tis a sucky card. I just wanted to know whether or not I should be getting the low FPS that I am getting.

Oh, yeah, and would an ATI 9600 XT work with FSO?

Help! :confused:
Title: Ah, fishpaste. Graphic card questions.
Post by: StratComm on September 01, 2004, 09:04:02 pm
The recent ATI cards have driver issues and don't display specular at all, but otherwise it'd work fine.  And GeForce2 will result in low framerates, especially if you've got graphical goodies turned on.
Title: Ah, fishpaste. Graphic card questions.
Post by: Hippo on September 01, 2004, 09:06:07 pm
I had the same card on my p3 450... I averaged a solid 60FPS, only because w2k limited it to such... I had 320Mb ram, but 3 gigs of virtual ram set aside... Never had any problems..
Title: Ahhh
Post by: Blitzerland on September 01, 2004, 09:42:45 pm
I have 500-something ram.

Maybe I should let windows use a few more gigs of virtual ram, then, eh?

I'll try that. I manage about 50 FPS, until I look at a lot of ships, or a bunch of effects.
Title: Ah, fishpaste. Graphic card questions.
Post by: ChronoReverse on September 02, 2004, 01:35:27 am
Depends completely on the settings you use.

If you use plain vanilla with only HTL then you'll get great framerates.

If you turn on everything and use the new upgraded effects, models, backgrounds and textures, then you'll get great framerates until you look at something.  At which point it'll drop to a crawl.


The amount of RAM you have and the CPU you have effects this too of course
Title: Ah, fishpaste. Graphic card questions.
Post by: Hippo on September 02, 2004, 09:22:00 am
I was still hitting about 30 when facing something with everything turned on...