Pacific Fighers perfomance increase

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I must say, I never thought that I would get to where I got such great
framerates with my system running PF on pretty much the highest settings.

First, I gained a lot by using the pci latency tweak program discussed here
earlier.

I then, disabled AA in the 9800 Pro 3d options. I really gained fps by doing
this. This running in 1280x960 resolution.
After disabling AA and running some flights, I increased resolution to
1600x1200. I didn't drop one, not one, fps by increasing the resolution. No
need for AA now.

So, my Pacific Fighters has now gone from stuttering in traffic, to no
stuttering. Framerates used to be - on the carrier, mid 20's, in flight from
inside cockpit 60's, and outside cocpit in flight 70's, to mid 30's to mid
40's on carrier, depending on position of plane - to mid upper 60's to mid
70's in cockpit, to mid to upper 90's outside cockpit.

System:
Athlon XP 2800+ overclocked to 3200+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce 2 mb
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb
1 gig of pc 3200 ddr ram.
Audigy2 ZS soundcard.



Hope this might help others who are having low frame rate/stuttering
problems also.


--
Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the way
of the man that's doing it."

 

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"Don Burnette" <d.burnette@clothes.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I must say, I never thought that I would get to where I got such great
> framerates with my system running PF on pretty much the highest settings.
>
> First, I gained a lot by using the pci latency tweak program discussed
> here earlier.
>
> I then, disabled AA in the 9800 Pro 3d options. I really gained fps by
> doing this. This running in 1280x960 resolution.
> After disabling AA and running some flights, I increased resolution to
> 1600x1200. I didn't drop one, not one, fps by increasing the resolution.
> No need for AA now.
>

LOL - maybe not for your old tired eyes - call me particular, but I cannot
f***ing STAND not using at least 4xFSAA! I Bail on the Anisotropic to
offset things a bit. Strong 30s in-cockpit through TheBlackDeath with
Forest=2, Water=3. P4 3.2GHz w/ HT, 1GB RAM, GeForce 6800GT 256 Audigy
soundcard.

> So, my Pacific Fighters has now gone from stuttering in traffic, to no
> stuttering. Framerates used to be - on the carrier, mid 20's, in flight
> from inside cockpit 60's, and outside cocpit in flight 70's, to mid 30's
> to mid 40's on carrier, depending on position of plane - to mid upper 60's
> to mid 70's in cockpit, to mid to upper 90's outside cockpit.
>
> System:
> Athlon XP 2800+ overclocked to 3200+
> Asus A7N8X Deluxe Nforce 2 mb
> ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb
> 1 gig of pc 3200 ddr ram.
> Audigy2 ZS soundcard.
>
>
>
> Hope this might help others who are having low frame rate/stuttering
> problems also.
>
>
> --
> Don Burnette
>

To each their own. I prefer visual perfection over performance - up to a
point. Just finished up a DCG 39 mission, BnZ-ing a bunch of Poles from
Angel 5+. Fun!

 

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:48 -0600, Don Burnette wrote:

>First, I gained a lot by using the pci latency tweak program discussed here
>earlier.

Don - did you tweak just the video card - or other devices as well?

Adamski.

 

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Adamski wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:48 -0600, Don Burnette wrote:
>
>> First, I gained a lot by using the pci latency tweak program
>> discussed here earlier.
>
> Don - did you tweak just the video card - or other devices as well?
>
> Adamski.


Just the video card. My others were aready at 32.



--
Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the
way of the man that's doing it."

 

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Don Burnette wrote:

> Adamski wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:48 -0600, Don Burnette wrote:
>>
>>> First, I gained a lot by using the pci latency tweak program
>>> discussed here earlier.
>>
>> Don - did you tweak just the video card - or other devices as well?
>>
>> Adamski.
>
>
> Just the video card. My others were aready at 32.
>
>
>

That should tell us something Don. Sounds to me like your 9800P isnt the
bottleneck. Once you upgrade your mobo/cpu lets test again and see if you
are still able to switch between max res and <max without a FR drop.

Mitch
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Mitch_A wrote:
> Don Burnette wrote:
>
>> Adamski wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:46:48 -0600, Don Burnette wrote:
>>>
>>>> First, I gained a lot by using the pci latency tweak program
>>>> discussed here earlier.
>>>
>>> Don - did you tweak just the video card - or other devices as well?
>>>
>>> Adamski.
>>
>>
>> Just the video card. My others were aready at 32.
>>
>>
>>
>
> That should tell us something Don. Sounds to me like your 9800P isnt
> the bottleneck. Once you upgrade your mobo/cpu lets test again and
> see if you are still able to switch between max res and <max without
> a FR drop.
>
> Mitch


Will do. I am going out of town this weekend, I plan on ordering the
components this week, and putting it together the following weekend.
Will be interesting.



--
Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the
way of the man that's doing it."