FPS Improvement needed

[HailtheGoat]

Well, I've done some searching and haven't been able to find anything to help tweak my BF or card settings to get better FPS. So I'm coming to you guys for some assistance. Whenever I play a game of BF with more than 14 people I start getting a slideshow. I finally found the command to see your FPS (fps 1) and mine was in single digits in bigger games.
Offline by myself I get 100, add in some bots for co-op and it drops back down to single digits.

I've tried everything from lowering BF down to 800x600 16 and all details on the lowest settings, nothing works.

Can anyone provide me a link or tell me where to go to get some much needed improvement on my frames, it almost makes me sick at times.

I just reloaded my machine and here are my specs.

AMD 2100+
GeForce Ti 4600 using the 44.03 drivers (anything higher and UT runs poorly)
1Gb of RAM
Win XP home all uneeded services turned off.
AA and AF are turned off, image quality is set to best performance.


I've read that the newer NVidia drivers (53.03) improve the frames but I don't want to sacrifice UT.

Any help you can give would be great.

:bow: :bow: :bow:

[-F7]

Wow that's not good for that system. You should be getting 50+ FPS.

Stick with the 44.03 drivers.

Here's a few things you can try:

In Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > GeForce 4 ti4600 TAB

Performance Quality > Set to Performance

Also, make sure D3D and OpenGL are using NO Anti-Aliasing. If you feel you need it, don't use anything higher than 2x. However with FPS going into the single-digits, I recommend using NO Anti-Aliasing.

Turn off Anisotropic Filtering.
Turn off VSync.


In you BIOS, set your AGP Aperture to 128. Chances are, it's set at 64. Another thing you can do in BIOS is to turn OFF sideband addressing. GeForce's have 2 modes of addressing; sideband and 4GB sideband. However unlike other cards, they cannot use both at the same time. Turning off sideband addressing will enable 4GB addressing.

You didn't mention it, but what speed AGP are you running at? I would assume 4x, but check just to be sure. Check in BIOS too.

Let me know how it works. :)

[HailtheGoat]

I tried everything except the BIOS settings you mentioned.
I'll give that a whirl and let you know.

And yes, I am running it at 4x.

[Phanataz]

Add these lines to this file: ...\BF1942\Mods\bf1942\Settings\VideoDefault.con

renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1
renderer.useTrilinearFiltering 0

See if that helps.

[HailtheGoat]

Ok, I found the culprit. It wasn't the video settings at all! It was the sound.
I found an article on the web that says BF is very harsh on the sound, so you need to

Go to start ---> run
type in dxdiag
Click on the sound tab
adjust the hardware accelerator

I set it to none the first time and sounds were just horrible, but FPS were WAY up. Then I tried standard and found the happy medium. Sounds weren't bad and when I loaded up a 64 player co-op game on my machine I was still getting between 30-40 FPS. I think that's awesome considering the bots were using the CPU as well!
I jumped on a 40 player server and had no frame troubles at all somewhere between 50-60!!!!!!!

So if anyone else gets a slideshow in big battles try that out and see if it works for you too.

I think it's safe to assume all is well now. I appreciate the help you gave.

[Phanataz]

On a map like bocage, the screen jerks. Not very smooth at all. But if I hit alt-tab to the desktop, and alt-tab back into the game, the screen smooths out after a few seconds and stays that way. I guess something in-game reinitializes when I do that.

I found that turning the acceleration down helps me, but only when I set it to none. I could have lived with the sound quality in-game, but the voices were like they were talking really fast.

[-F7]

cool goat :)