Video card trouble.

[dooms33ker]

I have asked in another thread about how a video card affects performance yet am still pretty stumped about it. I have a geforce 8800m gts and a T9300 2.5ghz cpu.

For the most part I have no issues running my res at 1400x900 but in some key areas of games (for example a few stages in smash bros with 4 players and the intro to wind waker as well as the forsaken fortress) run better in native resolution. sometimes its a difference of ~2 fps and sometimes its as much as 30 (when the frame limiter is turned off in smash bros I can get 80fps in some stages in native)

Does anyone have any tips for me to run games at 1400x900 without having the frame rate dips cause by the gpu? Im not referring to drops caused by the cpu, those are evident by task manager reporting the cpu to be at 95-100%. Im talking about getting 45 out of 50 fps and my cpu utilization being only 70%.

Any help from the devs?

[gcp111]

You can reduce the load on the video card by reducing things like AF (Anisotropic Filtering) and AA (Antialiasing) of course. Other than that I don't know, the 8800M GTS should be able to handle a decent resolution with no AA/AF.

[dooms33ker]

(06-14-2009, 03:04 PM)gcp111 Wrote: You can reduce the load on the video card by reducing things like AF (Anisotropic Filtering) and AA (Antialiasing) of course. Other than that I don't know, the 8800M GTS should be able to handle a decent resolution with no AA/AF.

I have no AA on only x4 AF.

It kind of sucks that I have to lower the resolution to native in a few areas in games like the forsaken fortress in Windwaker (there is a difference of 3-4 fps between 1400x900 and native.)

I am using the latest SVN by the way.

[Veeeight]

Should buy Radeon