FPS in Quake on new CPU
This is a discussion about FPS in Quake on new CPU in the Windows Hardware category; I just bought an Athlon 800 and Abit KA7 MB. But when I run Q3 in 640x480, fastest setting with all game options turned off, I only get 63 FPS. Is this good, or sound to low? BTW, I have a Creative Blaster TNT 16MB video card and 196MB of RAM.
I just bought an Athlon 800 and Abit KA7 MB.
But when I run Q3 in 640x480, fastest setting with all game options turned off, I only get 63 FPS. Is this good, or sound to low?
BTW, I have a Creative Blaster TNT 16MB video card and 196MB of RAM.
TIA
But when I run Q3 in 640x480, fastest setting with all game options turned off, I only get 63 FPS. Is this good, or sound to low?
BTW, I have a Creative Blaster TNT 16MB video card and 196MB of RAM.
TIA
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That FPS score is decent but not great. You should aim for around the 90s+ fps scores though. You should consider upgrading your video card if you want more FPS. Nvidia DDR based cards are excellent for OpenGL games.
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Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard
Dual Intel Pentium III 850
512 MEGS of ECC RAM
Sound Blaster Live!
Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card
GeForce 2 GTS 64MB
IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive
Western Digital 20.5GB Hard Drive
Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB)
Roland Sound Canvis SC-55
3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card
Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32
Pioneer DVD-ROM
Sony GDM-F500R Monitor
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I would love to upgrade, but the new CPU and MB, broke my bank for a couple of months. I was just looking at sites like anandtech and sharkyextreme. And their review of the Athlon 800 with a TNT2, they were getting 88 FPS. Is the TNT2 that much better than the TNT? I thought I would at least be able to get 75 FPS.
The TNT2 is ALOT better than the TNT1. 640X480 is not really much of a test for a video card since your testing the cpu + vid card. Run benchmarks at 1024X768 and compare to TNT2. You will notice a HUGE difference in performance.
