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Title: -fps reliability
Post by: JarC on June 06, 2004, 10:17:14 am

Exactly how reliable is this? I've seen mention of a hardcoded limit of 120, yet I am regularly seeing fps of 200+ being reported by the game....?

No, I do not have such a monster system, it is just that in certain situations, the reported fps just skyrockets and with the supposed hardlimit of 120 I am beginning to heavily doubt the correctness of whatever fps is reported...

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: Lightspeed on June 06, 2004, 10:20:58 am

Thats odd. It flickers around sometimes (the FPS number) but seems to work for me otherwise.

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: RandomTiger on June 06, 2004, 10:46:58 am

Have you got vsync on or off?

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: JarC on June 06, 2004, 11:37:18 am

off ofcourse, drops like a brick if I turn it on, without any visible improvements (don't suffer from tearing in the first place)

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: RandomTiger on June 06, 2004, 03:05:07 pm

I see tearing when I turn it off on my GF4.
What gfx card do you have?

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: taylor on June 06, 2004, 11:56:32 pm

Perhaps a dumb question but... are you using the command line option that turns the FPS cap off?

Also you said "certain situations", so what are they?

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: JarC on June 07, 2004, 01:54:04 am

the card is a GFX5200U, the situations I see this happening is after turning away from something that caused a massive drop in fps (see LS's thread, think it is related somehow...), when whatever caused the slowdown is out of screen, for a moment the fps skyrockets to sometimes 200+ but mostly to 150-180 (which is totally NOT to be expected from my low-end PII460Mhz...

nope, not using the option turning of fps capping (didn't know there was one)

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: Kazan on June 07, 2004, 09:19:12 am

i've never seen screen tearing when vsync is turned off - of course here's the histroy of my Video Cards

Pre-3D Accell: ATI Mach
Early-3D Acell: ATI Mach + Voodoo
Mid-3D Acell: ATI 3D Rage II
Now: ATI Radeon


hmm, i never see tearing because I DONT BUY CRAP CARDS :D

[sorry couldn't resist that free shot at nVidia]

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: Bobboau on June 07, 2004, 10:28:26 am

I have a 9800 and I can see tearing, it has nothing to do with the card and everything to do with the card being part way through flipping the back buffer when the monitor decides it's time to show the front buffer.

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: Kazan on June 07, 2004, 03:42:48 pm

that's a synchrate thing

i guess i just have a better monitor [i DO have a Mitsubishi Diamondtron 21"]

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: Taristin on June 07, 2004, 04:15:02 pm

Mmm. Mitsubishi...

Title: -fps reliability
Post by: Viper1000 on June 07, 2004, 04:43:10 pm

I have a 9800XT and no tearing ever.....