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Postby bm_727 » Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:40 pm

What improves frame rates more, a faster processor or more RAM?
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby bm » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:08 am

It would be helpful to know your system stats first!
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby congo » Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:29 pm

a cpu
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby bm_727 » Fri Feb 06, 2004 2:11 pm

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Processor:   Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz
RAM:            256MB* DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
Hard Drive:  80GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive
Graphics:     Integrated Intel 3D AGP Graphics

*I might upgrade to 512

Hope This Helps-  :-X
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby swanny338 » Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:36 pm

in that case, more ram and a non intergrated graphics card, the P4 should be just fine, of course dont know if its 800FSB or 533FSB but either way it should be good enough
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby Silver1SWA » Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:47 pm

Yeah your processor is fine.  More RAM and a good video card would do the trick.
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby bm_727 » Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:29 pm

Cool thanks  :-X
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:51 pm

Yup, fine cpu, ram needs to be much improved..... ;)

512mb as a minimum and an FX5700 or better will bring you one hell of an improvement, no question.

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Re: Frame Rates

Postby congo » Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:23 am

Just saw your system specs bm_727.

Your RAM is starving, but as the other guys have said, you need
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby bm_727 » Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:06 pm

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Re: Frame Rates

Postby Black_Thunder » Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:38 am

My frame rate is about 15 and descents to 6 when there is bad weather. Is it my GeForce 4 ti 4200 that causes this terrible rates. Any suggestions???
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby Liam » Sun Feb 15, 2004 2:26 pm

Well it's not likely the Video card alone will take it that low in FPS.

What are your system specs?
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Hopefully soon with RAID 0! :D
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby Black_Thunder » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:06 am

PIV 2.66Ghz @533Mhz FSB---768Mb PC2700 RAM---Seagate 120GB--- GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP--- All other hardware isn't important for this problem.

Hope you can answer this question
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Re: Frame Rates

Postby congo » Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:46 am

My apologies bm_727,

I hope you don't mind me posting this in for Black Thunder.........

Black_Thunder,

My spec is AMD XP2600+ 333mhz FSB, 1024mb PC2700, (I checked while the sim is running and I have around half my ram still free), 80gig Seagate HDD, GeForce 4 Ti4200 8XAGP.

You see we have a similar spec.

The following screenshot was taken over Hong Kong in FS2004, 1152 x 864 x 32 resolution, 4Sx antialiasing on, anisotropic filtering off. Everything else pretty maxed out.

Here I was getting around 18 FPS despite the dense scenery and clouds with antialiasing.

I'd say you have room for improvement.

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Re: Frame Rates

Postby Black_Thunder » Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:29 am

Hi Thanks. I will try your settings imediatly. I was running on 1280*1024 32bit 3linear filter . Thanks for response
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