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Counter strike.

Dec 28, 2003 3:45AM PST

When playing cs, my fps are about 40-60... I was just wondering what I could do to up my fps. I have a Radeon 9600 pro 128mb. I was using a geforce2 400 before I got the radeon, and the fps were running the same. I thought with buying a card thats alot better, my fps would go up.. But it seems to be the same as the old gefoce... My pc specs are: P4 2.0ghz, 512 ddr ram.. 80gb hdd... IE6.. Windows XP Home.. Xaser lll case.


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Re:Counter strike. Ponder this.
Dec 28, 2003 5:08AM PST

Let's say your refresh rate is 60 Hz. Your FPS could top out at 60. There's little reason to push the Hz and FPS much past 70... But if you get into a room of rabid gamers, you'll soon be trying for 120 FPS.

Bob

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Re:Re:Counter strike. Ponder this.
Dec 28, 2003 6:18AM PST

Well, my refresh rate is at 85 hz... But my FPS are at 40-60... Before they were at 71 and hardly moved.

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Think about...
Dec 28, 2003 8:22AM PST

85 Hz is interesting. Well beyond human perceptions and in some designs, high refresh rates reduces the amount of time a CPU has to get data into a video card. Try moving that back one notch.

You should find a gamer's forum since they tend to work this a lot. The usual items are selection of driver versions for the video card. Some are faster than others.

Bob

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Re:Counter strike.
Dec 28, 2003 8:55AM PST

Some other things to consider.

* Movies run at roughly 24fps
* Your TV runs at 30fps
* The human visual pathways saturate at about 72fps meaning you can't tell any difference between 72fps and 500fps and anyone who says otherwise is full of crap because it's not possible with the current human anatomy
* Higher end video cards rarely improve the framerates, they just allow you to keep higher frame rates at higher detail levels and resolutions
* Your "problem" is likely with the inefficiencies of the P4 and the fact that rather than making an efficient running chip Intel has decided to try and push things like SSE and SSE2. Trouble is, not many games (and almost certainly not Counter-Strike) make use of these technologies so they don't do you a hell of a lot of good
* A framerate of 40-60fps is pretty damn good -- better than TV quality animation. Don't obsess over meaningless figures. I know insecure males like to have a pissing contest to see who has the bigger... system... but framerates really mean very little once you get past 30fps, and you could easily get by with as little as 24fps and still have movie quality animation. So long as you're not getting any stuttering or dropped frames, **JUST ENJOY THE FRIGGEN GAME**!

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Re:Re:Counter strike.
Dec 29, 2003 10:25PM PST

how do you even mesure FPS?

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Re:Re:Re:Counter strike.
Dec 29, 2003 10:45PM PST

It's a debugging feature built into almost every game. It's primarily meant for the developers to figure out what aspects of the game need the most tweaking for speed, but some people have to use it as a means for a pissing contest to see who's is bigger.

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Re:Re:Re:Counter strike.
Dec 30, 2003 5:17AM PST

I'm not a gamer but I suspect it has a lot to do with the game/prog your using.

If you go to
www.passmark.com

Load their prog and run the 3d test it will give a read out in fps for "their test".

It's a nice number but all I ever used it for was tweaking or checking new drivers to see if I was going forward or backwards.