Anyone notice an occasional loss of FPS on Geforce with 21.83 drivers?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 12:42 am

I don't know if this is a driver issue, or an issue with my GF3 Ti-200 but every once in a while I suddenly lose a LOT of fps - I can feel DoD chugging and I'll use cl_showfps 1 to check the fps and sure enough, I'm dipping down to 35 fps half the time.

Now normally I NEVER see it dip below 72 (my fps cap).

When this a happens, only thing that fixes it is to reboot. Then it's fine for a few days until it happens again.

Anyone seen this or have any clues?

P3-1000, Win2K, 512Mb, SB Live, Visiontek GF3 Ti-200, NVidia XP v21.83 driver (latest official driver)

RaT · Post by **RaT** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 1:01 am

no problem here so far!! don't play half-life mods no more so i don't know about DoD. but running Q3 and all the mods i play everythings smooth. Only game that has some slowdown issues is AvsP2.

amd t-bird 1.1ghz
512mb
geforce3 ti200 (default)

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 1:11 am

It's not a game issue - it's the card or the drivers or something interfering with them. Once it happens, it affects all games: HL, Q3, RTCW

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 1:28 am

Hey FP where can i find DoD at? I've got like beta 1.1 or something that older than old... And i'm sure they've updated it since then... It was fun when i played it a few months ago.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 7:38 am

http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com/

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 12:00 pm

What is this: cl_showfps thing? Does it show your PFS while you play?

I may be interested in as to how to use this. I would like to know how many FPS I get in a few games.

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 12:51 pm

Yes it shows your FPS in the upper right (I think) in HL and its mods.

Quake 3 and Quake 3 engine games generally use /cg_drawfps 1.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 2:50 pm

So, it's only avaliable in certain games?

Any idea if you can use it in Red Faction? (most CPU intense game I have right now)..

MAC · Post by **MAC** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 5:32 pm

FP,

I'm using the 21.83 Nvidia drivers with my Creative Labs Annihilator Pro and haven't experienced this problem. Currently, I'm only playing games based on the Q3 engine (Q3, Team Arena, & RTCW)

Celeron 533@800
Windows 98SE

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Dec 02, 2001 6:46 pm

It SEEMS to have gone away once I used the setting in the OpenGL display settings to force 16 bit color.

I'll have to try going back to the 21.81 driver and see what happens.

I think it may be a desktop color depth issue. I've had some drivers in the past that had a problem in games if I ran the desktop at 32 bit color, but I won't reduce it - I use photoshop.