GeForce 3 Giving Shi??y FPS!

I bought a GeForce3 64mb DDR to replace my old 8mb TNT2 Riva....But once i installed it with the newest drivers, my FPS is EXACTLY the same! Now, i dont know alot about all this tweaking and whatnot but i do know that with a $350 card i should be getting a smooth 70+ FPS! Do you think it is my outdated motherboard drviers? Last updates 99 sometime, when i bought the comp..And does this anti-aliasing make my fps better or worse? Any ideas here guys? I have a 655Mhz Pentium3 with 128MB RAM....And i play CS at 640*480 and get anywhere from 18-40 fps....please help. Thanx

Probably the first thing you should try is increasing the resolution of your games. I'm no GeForce expert, but I know the GeForce three does not really show a great deal of improvement in FPS when compared to older cards at low resolution. Where it shines is at high resolutions.

First thing, be sure you have the latest drivers from Nvidia. Your PC specs shouldn't hurt it that badly... ofcourse a faster motherboard and processor wouldn't hurt, but my friend runs it on a PIII 550 and it runs fine. Also, just FYI Anti-Aliasing smoothes the jagged lines in games... it also drops frame-rates to some degree. You're better off disableing it when you play first person shooters, due to the speed of most of those game, you really won't tell a differance. Make sure you don't have a lot of programs running in the background, I don't care how fast the Gforce3 is, if your CPU is being used by other applications, your framerate will take a hit. Do a ctrl-alt-delete and end as many tasks as you can before starting the game up, try to leave only explorer and systray running. That should help... and for great justice, raise that resolution... You've got an awesome video card 1024x768 should be no problem... atleast 800x600. And btw it's going to be a little while before games come out that'll really utilize the technology found on that card, so be patient.

you say you get 18 to 40 FPS in Counter Strike? what mode are you running CS in? OpenGL, Direct3D, or Software? have you tried switching modes? with the GeForce 3 you'd want to be running OpenGL mode. i have a k6 III 450, 256 mgs ram and a TNT2 ULTRA and i get 25 to 50 in 800x600 in OpenGL. when i switch to Direct3D or Software mode my frames drop quite a bit.

also remember DirectX and Directdraw are limited to 60 hz to prevent monitor damage. you can override this in dxdiag.exe under msoverride. the modern monitors hande 120 so don't go over 80 unless if your sure your monitor can handle it

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also remember DirectX and Directdraw are limited to 60 hz to prevent monitor damage. you can override this in dxdiag.exe under msoverride. the modern monitors hande 120 so don't go over 80 unless if your sure your monitor can handle it

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When you change your resolution like you're saying here do you need to put it in as '85hz' for example or will '85' do?

And also should this number match what your adapter is at or does it matter?

Thanks! (yeah I'm a newbie hehe)

PZ

Use a higher resolution.
I run most of my games at 1600X1200 on a G3 card and my framerates usually stay around 28 to 30. And that's at 32 bit color depth. If I play at 1028X768X32 I easily hit 70+.

Did you uninstall the card the right way ?
And installed a "Standard vga pci graphics card"
After that installed the new card , if not ?
Do it all over ........
you could have old nv.dll left on your hd
There are many ways to do this
you could install standard pci go into safe mode and delete all nv.dll´s quit and install the new one´s, i recommend www.nvidia.com detonator drivers
Disable v-sync in you open gl and d3d
In halflife use open GL and check your .cfg
is the max fps set to 74 or ? well look into it put it at 99 or something
Good Luck .

I know a little about Geforce cards, so here's my schpill on it... Gefore cards are actually made for higher resolutions. What that means to you is if you use it on the low resolutions, it's going ot play like every other decent card. Why? Because it isn't made for that. Fact is, those things are made to run at around 1024x768. You should try it out. It definately isn't going to be any slower. I'll probably be 'more better.'

You must have to see the velocity of your AGP port it's 4x or 2X, the 4X it's more faster than 2X, and the clock speed of the AGP it's very important for the performance of the Video Cards, this video card G3DDR memory are very good on high resolution like 1280x1024 or more. Right Driver (It's a ASUS Video card install Asus Drivers, it's a Elsa Card install Elsa Drivers, etc.), and install the latest DirectX drivers for better performance.

That's All you need. I have a Geforce 2 GTS and Pentium III Processor on Soyo Main Board with 512 MB on Memory and it's really fast with the Popular games like Quake III Arena(Team Arena runs very fast), Soldier of Fortune, Unreal Tournament. etc. remember the patches of each games, it's very important for run properly with your new card. Bye.

Well im going to solve ur problem now! Go into the CS console and type "fps_modem 100" and this will set ur fps max to 100 which is the most u can get out of the HL engine!