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speaking of "Overclocking", ATI control center gives the obtion of enabling Overdrive but it also warns you of enabling such obtion, I wonder what could possibly happen? and has it happened to anyone before and is it better enabling?
speaking of "Overclocking", ATI control center gives the obtion of enabling Overdrive but it also warns you of enabling such obtion, I wonder what could possibly happen? and has it happened to anyone before and is it better enabling?
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for ATI users who have possible driver side problem, if the standard ATI drivers didnt work
try Omega drivers
it fixed lots of gaming problems and even perforemce boost for some other games, i still didnt test the latest built(based on 7.1) but this driver works on my system
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Overclocking
A while back a needed more performance out of my comp.
I baught a Zaleman Resorator Water cooler.
Be warned only do this if you built your own computer or can afford the risks of doing it wrong. You have to place a bracket under your motherboard so maybe not a job for a newbie builder.
I removed the cooler off my graphics card and cpu and replaced both with a water block each. ***The resorator holds 2 litres of water and makes no noise at all.
I also added graphics RAM heatsinks that came with the resorator and blue tacked a case fan to the graphics card so it blewdown the length of the card towards the rear case fan. The performance figures are 20- 30Mhz below the instability figures.
Performance increase
AMD 64fx 51 CPU from 2.2Ghz ***- 2.3.Ghz
Nvidia 6800GT 256MB ***
GPU 400 - 435Mhz ***Ram ***
Graphics Ram 1Ghz - 1120Ghz
Can Overclocking your card possibly damage your GPU card or the motherboard? is there danger to it?
Yes, it can.
I have found ArmA responds very well to overclocking my way old video card (raedon 9600xt).
Those improvements hardly look worth the cost and effortOriginally Posted by (CG Man @ Feb. 17 2007,12:32)
CPU : 100Mhz improvement on a 2.2Ghz CPU
GPU : 35Mhz improvement
VRAM : 120Mhz improvement
I guess some people just have too much time and money
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Yep it can, but sensible overclocking can help you squeeze out those last frames you need for the game to run smooth
Like i suggested, google up about overclocking
But if you're having issues with your card, such as heat related issues, its very dangerous to overclock your card.
You could try underclocking if you think the card is overheating or something...
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Its very important that the page file is not fragmented. To make sure your page file is not fragmented I recommend moving the page file to a different partition, then defragment the old partition that used to host the page file, then move the page file back again. And its very important that you do not let windows manage the page file size. Set the size about 1.5 gigs both minimum and maximum size
I have a "low" system spec
Athlon 3200+
1 Go RAM
6600 GT 128 Mo
I have done a lot of test with the ingame setting and the Nvidia control panel setting.
My conclusion is that the shadow system and the vegetation impacts mainly the framerate.
Trees (object low) + Shadow (low) + Shading (low) = poor framerate
Desert + Shadow + Shading = ok
Trees + No shadow + Shading = ok
I desactivated the shadow. I can set other setting in low and normal
Terrain -> normal (vis 1000m)
Object -> normal
Texture -> low (video memory limitation)
Shading -> very low
PostProcessing -> low
AA -> normal (this setting doesn't impact so much my framerate 2 or 3 fps diff)
Anisio -> low (same as the AA)
Shadow -> off
An interesting feature for "low spec" would be an optimization of the shadow for vegetation (no shadow for little foliage, simple shadows for trees).
The second setting which impact mainly the framerate is the post processing high setting. Keep it low.
PS : There is some weird things in the Nvidia tweak guide linked on page one. The optimizations (more performance, less quality) like anisiotropic filtering is set to off ?? I have better perf with 'on' setting.
Well the most influencial settings appear to change depending on which graphics card you have. I think ATI cards tend to have more shaders, therefore shading detail + "bush lag" doesnt seem to have as much lag as with some nvidia cards.
It also depends on the shader model used (2.0 or 3.0) and also some cards have little effect with post process on high (i only lose approx 2 FPS from turning it on high)
And Anistropic Filtering should be set on Application controlled, or "Off unless application specifies" therefore you can turn it on and off using ArmA
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