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karx11erx

2006-02-25, 10:25 pm

Superrat,

changing AGP speed usually affects frame rates only very minimally, if
at all, because it only determines the speed at which the gfx card can
access computer main memory to store and read textures from there. If
the gfx card's RAM is enough to hold all textures, it won't do that.

If your question is about frame rate in Descent 3: Did you check your
cmd line parameters for a -framecap parameter? Try '-framecap 0' or
'-framecap 999' to get rid of frame rate limiting by D3.

And do yourself a favor and by Windows XP. ;)

karx11erx

Superrat wrote:
quote:

> Someone please give me some help. I had 1800 mhz AMD XP based machne
> with a 64 meg nvidia geforce 2 video card with FPS at about 120. I put
> together an ABIT KV7, AMD XP 3000, NVidia FX 5500, 512 meg memory and
> only acheived a new frame rate of about 150 max. I tried another video
> card, NVIDIA 6600 GT and acheived the same results as the FX 5500. I
> even went so far to reformat and reload just to ensure the 6600 GT was
> on a fresh operating system but to no avail. I used 3D MARK to test
> the 5500 and the 6600 GT and achieved the results you would expect from
> each upgrade. I have used the "Secret time test" with framerate
> uncapped (999). Please help I am perplexed.


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