how to own ut2k3 (fps wise)

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:06 am

There's always something bigger and better around the corner.... just a matter of how long you're willing to wait Razz

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:59 am

Dragon why are you fucked ram wise?

(man that sounds dirty Wink

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i have the same memory and amount of memory. what's so bad about it?

UO Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 524 Location: Atlanta

Well, if you look at my other specs, that's really the bottleneck of my PC. I could load maps and textures et al and take some strain off of my CPU if I had a nicer set of RAM. The PCs at Dragon*Con for example, had 1g each, and they ran NICE. The CPUs were only 2.4, at 1024x768, all details up and on, with FX5900's, they ran really nice..... but I'll go into that later Wink

Anyway, my RAM is really the choke point on my PC, and unfortunately, I'm fucked because I have an 850e Intel board, so I can't get DDR or any other kind of RAM.... Crying or Very sad

Ultimate Fanboy Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 508

plz watch the language... Shocked

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:08 pm

we have kids here

/me pulls out blowed up doll of the Lindbergh baby (or is it a doll?)

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:41 pm

yatta, yatta, i'll agree Wink

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:14 am

There's always something bigger and better around the corner.... just a matter of how long you're willing to wait Razz

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:29 am

Here's the interview with Mr. Sweeney on 64 bit tech.

I guess the important bit is: "We expect to support 32-bit and 64-bit clients and servers for gameplay, but might require 64-bit for content creation, because of the significant requirements of our new content development tools."

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:43 am

dude yah that's about time for a new computer Wink

a pII 400

i shouldent talk though i still have a AMD k6 333 that i use for my mp3 server Wink

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 1:05 pm

Yeah, but this is my ONLY computer....I plan on using this computer for basically the same thing once I get a new one. I'll keep it mostly to run my old games that wont run on Win XP.

Later Smile

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:03 am

Sorry, bad habit... Embarassed

I'll work on it Wink

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Sorry, bad habit... Embarassed

I'll work on it Wink

Novice Spammer Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 75

this was the biggest problem with your old rig
I have a amd athlon xp 1600+, 256 ddr(had 512, stick fried) geforce2mx400 and I can still get playable fps on most maps, default and custom

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:07 pm

i have a state of the fart dell xpt 750 r x86 family chipset intel original mobo with 256 sc pc 100 ram dual stick and a p3 750 mghz with l2 on die cache with a geforce ti 4200 128 mb ddr

time to upgrade Very Happy

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Damn...wist I had that kind of FPS...It does run fine most of the time, but it chugs on some maps(especially CTF-APVerII_DemoMap)...

Benchmark results:

Flyby:130.236938
Botmatch:47.054092

Here's my PC specs:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512 MB DDR RAM
Integrated nForce for sound that has problems with UEngine1 games(and Halo)
Radeon 9600 XT(mem OC'd to 666 MHz)

As much as I'd like to upgrade the processor, which is problably the bottleneck of my 1 1/2 year-old Compaq which my stepdad bought Sad

, he won't let me. Guess that in the next 2-3 years, I'll convince him to BUILD a PC FROM SCRATCH & possibly buy a better PC for the same amount of money as some crappy pre-built one. This worries me about the fact that, although I get HL2 for free, will it run well? Ah hell, just have to manage.

Comparison to a U-Engine Tweaking article:

I think I got around 70 FPS in Magma sometime ago, and that was with high world detail, dynamic lighting & some other options I don't remember, in addition to High Quality settings for D3D. Pretty impressive, considering the writer of the article had a better PC than I did...