xp is caping my fps at 60 per second

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My frames per second is capped out at 60 and i know my
hardware can achive higher. I have an amd athalon at
1866 mhz and a gf4 ti 4600 with 256 ram, and a slower
system will run get 15 more fps on the same game. The
slower system being a pentium 866 mhz with a gf2 and 64
mbs of ram. thanks for any help
 
The game is called ricochet (half life mod, like counter
strike) i'm not sure what drivers they are, but i know
they're up to date, i know other xp users have the same
problem
 
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My frames per second is capped out at 60 and i know my
hardware can achive higher. I have an amd athalon at
1866 mhz and a gf4 ti 4600 with 256 ram, and a slower
system will run get 15 more fps on the same game. The
slower system being a pentium 866 mhz with a gf2 and 64
mbs of ram. thanks for any help
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Are you using nvidia's drivers? If so, right click on
Click to expand...
desktop and select properties from menu. Click the
settings tab, select advanced at lower right of window.
Select the tab with your video card name. If your using
the 44.03 drivers a side window pops open, click the +
sign beside your video card name,then click the
performance and quality plus sign, then click the + sign
beside direct 3d settings. You will see a refresh rate
override setting, highlight it and a window will pop up
letting you set the refresh rates for different
resolutions. Change the refresh rate to the maximum
supported by your monitor at that resolution. Click the
apply button at the bottom of the page. Your ready to
play! IMPORTANT- Don't set the refresh rate higher than
what your monitor supports at that resolution. It's
possible to damage the monitor if you do. Hope this
helps.
 
You can achieve framrates higher than your refresh rate by disabling
vertical sync. You can do this in the NVidia control panel for OpenGL games.
For Direct3D games the method is probably application-specific. However, you
can increase the refresh rate for games (thus increasing the frame rate cap)
by using the refresh rate overide tab in the NVidia control panel.

However, note that people can't significantly distinguish between framerates
that are greater than 60 fps, so you are getting the full experience out of
your game already.
 
I keep finding little things that improve my performance.... The latest?

I increased my AGP aperture setting in BIOS from a
never-before-even-looked-at setting of 16MB, to 128MB.

I obtained an additional 25FPS in both Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmarks,
and 3Dmark's free test.

I tried 256MB, too, but only averaged 3 more FPS over 128MB setting.... so I
put it back to 128MB.

You should experiment your AGP Aperture settings... start low, and
incrementally increase, taking time to benchmark your game results.

You might be pleasantly surprised by your efforts.

Here's a link showing a test of the aperture settings, among other things...
although my results were more dramatic than theirs. perhaps yours will too.

Good luck,
-Lawrence in Seattle
 
Where are thos settings located on startup?
Lawrence said:
I keep finding little things that improve my performance.... The latest?

I increased my AGP aperture setting in BIOS from a
never-before-even-looked-at setting of 16MB, to 128MB.

I obtained an additional 25FPS in both Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmarks,
and 3Dmark's free test.

I tried 256MB, too, but only averaged 3 more FPS over 128MB setting.... so I
put it back to 128MB.

You should experiment your AGP Aperture settings... start low, and
incrementally increase, taking time to benchmark your game results.

You might be pleasantly surprised by your efforts.

Here's a link showing a test of the aperture settings, among other things...
although my results were more dramatic than theirs. perhaps yours will too.

Good luck,
-Lawrence in Seattle
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The settings are in available in BIOS.

I have AMI BIOS, so I tap the Delete key when rebooting to bring up the
setting screen. Then I go to ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.

If you've got a different BIOS, then yours will be similar, but different
(of course).

If you've never been in there before.... be very careful, and specific about
what you change. Don't try changing a ton of things all at once. While it
is very safe to edit most of the settings, if you happen to set something
wrong, your system may not boot until you reset to defaults, and start over.

You should be able to safely set Aperture size, though. I just want to
emphasize caution about other changes.

If you don't mind, do a test before and after, and post your results.

Good luck tweaking,
-Lawrence in Seattle
 
The settings are in available in BIOS.

I have AMI BIOS, so I tap the Delete key when rebooting to bring up the
setting screen. Then I go to ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES.

If you've got a different BIOS, then yours will be similar, but different
(of course).

If you've never been in there before.... be very careful, and specific about
what you change. Don't try changing a ton of things all at once. While it
is very safe to edit most of the settings, if you happen to set something
wrong, your system may not boot until you reset to defaults, and start over.

You should be able to safely set Aperture size, though. I just want to
emphasize caution about other changes.

If you don't mind, do a test before and after, and post your results.

Good luck tweaking,
-Lawrence in Seattle
 
well my bios is different from urs, i had agp somethig set to 64, i had an
option to change it to 265, i done that, no visual difference.
 
Did you mean 256? Instead of 265....
I think that's too much.... there were more links that showed stats for
various settings 64, 128, 256, in some cases, 256 did nothing.
Seems like 128 was the sweet spot. But since you have such a powerhouse
card, with 256MB of RAM on it... you might not notice as much of a gain as I
did, with my 64MB card.

I did find another cool tweak today, though.... but it only works if your
motherboard has a VIA chipset.
Here's the link - in case you do, too.
http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#INT "Memory Interleave Enabler
for VIA Chipsets"
Works great. I got a 9% gain improvement on my benchmarks, just by using
the tool. That's not a lot, but it's still a plus.

Don't bother running it, if you don't use the VIA chipset. Maybe there's a
similar tool for what you do use. You could scan Google.

Good gaming to ya!
-L
 
im not really sure what chipset i got or anything about my motherboard, as
far as bios settings i got only 2 options 64 or 256, i dont know y, btw my
BIOS is updated, and i got geforce4 from msi with 128 or ddr ram and model
is 4800 ti se with 8X agp suport, but my Mother Board doestn support 8X agp
(thats sucks), thanks for ur help anyway. I personaly think that all the
problems i have is motherboard related, next time ill get me a gaming
machine, not a dell.
 
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