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by **JimS** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 5:36 pm

I have an NEC, with Windows98, 64 RAM, 450 MHz AMDK-6 3Dprocessor, with DirectX6.1a.

I'm only getting 2 frames per second. Does that seem right? Would getting a newer version of DirectX make a real difference?

Thanks,

Jim

by **solo** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 8:07 pm

the most important thing in your case is how much video ram u have? if u r less than 32 mb and running at max resolution, i dont think upgrading directx will make an enormous diffrence.

with my older machine i used to reduce resolution and widow colors to 16 bit, which helped.

by **solo** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 7:09 am

to find out about how much video ram.
try

Start--->settings--->control panel--->diplay--->settings------->advanced--->adapter

u could also try turning off 'smooth texture' in fms in the meantime.

by **sanjay** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 11:29 am

I doubt the low FPS is because your machine is slow.

There are a number of issues with the graphics of FMS based on your exact graphic card/direct x/driver combination.

I get 2 FPS when running under win2k or winxp but +30fps running on the same hardware under win98.

On the home page is a link to a development version which allows you to tweak some of the graphics options of FMS. Its worth giving it a try. Also there are debug versions of FMS that seem to work better on some machines.

In my case the debug version sort of fixed the FPS problem but the graphics rendering deteriorated.

The development version did not help me.

Try these versions before and after upgrading direct x. Also check for newer drivers for your graphics card.

Good luck

by **JimS** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 8:09 pm

by **solo** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 6:47 am

yes ...u have 2 mb video ram. unfortunatly i dont think changing your software eg directx, drivers or debug versions will help.....but u could try them.....sorry

by **mattb** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 7:00 am

Is it possible the video card is not hardware accelerated?

-Matt Bailey

by **sanjay** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 9:51 am

also try running the dxdiag utility and tweak the hardware accelaration options there. This will at least tell you if the hardware acceleration options are working for your card.

by **JimS** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 9:39 pm

I changed the graphics setting and got it up to 8-22 fps. Much better. I really don't care too much about the graphics, so I can live with that. I'll try some more tweaking.

Jim

by **solo** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 7:17 am

"I changed the graphics setting and got it up to 8-22 fps." [I]

can u please elaborate? did change smooth texture, fog etc or something in windows. it could help others in future. thanks.

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