What shld i get?

[zverushka]

Hey guys.

I bought a new Geforce4 ti4600 a couple of weeks back..
SPECS OF MY SYSTEM
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1.2 Ghz AMD Athlon T-Bird
640 Megs SDR SDRAM
128 meg Geforce 4, Ti4600
21 Inch Monitor
80 meg 7200 RPM HD
A7A266 motherboard

Its an awesome card, but it runs not much better than my old ATI- radeon. I still get slow frame rates in OFP, and I get around 60 fps in half life. I've tried everything, so it's not software related. This christmas, I want to get a present for myself thats under 200 dollars. I'm either buying a CPU, or a mobo with ddr ram.

What shld I get that wld really speed up my frame rate??

[Harnu]

You should learn to spell, it really would help others when they read your posts.

What are your OFP setting at? Is your visibility very high? Or did you set your frames really low?

[USMC Sniper]

That's an amazing system, I don't think you need to upgrade anything. You are probably getting slowdowns since you are playing Half Life at the highest res possible, and playing OFP with everything to the max. I think enabling T&L will boost your performance, as well as DL'ing new drivers.

I noticed your processor is 1200 megahertz, it seems like a lot, but maybe getting a faster one will boost your performance by a little.

[Badgerboy]

You can't go wrong with a new motherboard. They are pretty cheap these days, and you can use the old one to build a server.

Couple of questions;

What size DIMM's (RAM) are you running?

What OS are you running, and how long has it been installed?

A good clean gaming system can give you a marked increase in performance.

[Badgerboy]

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60fps is nowhere near a slow down&#33; That&#39;s higher than what your TV runs at&#33;

OFP is a bugger though, it&#39;s a resource hog, andits picky about peoples setups.

[zverushka]

I play OFP at very low settings. I have 900 meter viewdistance, normal terrain, and 3.xx detail. I play HL at average settings, but even at the highest settings I shld be getting 100 fps with the card I have. Tvs get 30 fps, but you can&#39;t notice it, because the frames are fuzzed together, thats why yuo get a fuzzy image if you take a picture of a TV.

I have 2 256 meg cards, and one 128 meg one. Should I take out the 128 meg one> would that help anything?

I run Windows XP pro

I&#39;ve optimized my system in every way, still same performance, and I have an SQL server running, but that doesn&#39;t affect it, I once turned it off and got the same performance.

[Acidcrash]

well regarding Half-Life, 60 is the default max FPS if i remember right, all it requires is some editing of your config.cfg and you can gain the extra FPS.
but coming back to CPU, i used to have a 1.2 and i now have an XP2000 and imo it runs better.

[Col. Kurtz]

There is not point going for the RAM option unless you get 512mb DDR in my opinion.
An yes, the 60 fps in Half Life and Half Life games has nothing to do with your system, its set by defualt.

[zverushka]

I set it to 100 fps max, and I get 60 fps-70 fps fluctuationsIf I&#39;m getting a new CPU, then I&#39;m getting an XP 2100

[Hovmand]

You can easily get 99 fps in halflife, assuming you are running with a geforce card then you just need to turn vertical synch off in your nvidia menu thingie under opengl (you ofcourse need to be running HL in opengl).

And in the console type max_fps 100, or fps_max 100, one of those two, cant remember.

Edit: The absolute max fps in HL is 99.