1280x1024 vs. 800x600 vs. 640x480 -- WTF!?

acgreen · 01-17-2002, 12:42 AM

Okay, the gayest thing just happened to me. I usually play in 800x600x32, and I decided to try the highest resolution that my system could handle, which is 1280x1024x32. Anyway, so I change the resolution, and I noticed a huge difference in frame rates. It was faster! I was thinking, WTF man, this isn't supposed to happen. Anyway, so I switched to 640x480 to see what happened, and still, 1280x1024 was faster. Weird huh? It's cool for me. Anyway, here are my system specs:

1.2 Gigahertz AMD Athlon Thunderbird
1024 MB PC-133 RAM
60 Gigabyte 7200RPM HD

suckers...

AC

Ohgr · 01-17-2002, 12:46 AM

yeah what graphics card do you have. If its a good one then I'd expect that to happen, some cards ( GF3 cards ) are bottlenecked at 800x600, they were designed for higher res graphics

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acgreen · 01-17-2002, 12:47 AM

One very important piece of information... GeForce2 GTS 32mb DDR

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[ReFo] T.Olsen · 01-17-2002, 12:48 AM

WTF!!!

thats good for you (SUCKER YOURSELF :-))

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LimiT · 01-17-2002, 12:51 AM

hrmm..gotta try that :P

Ohgr · 01-17-2002, 12:53 AM

hhmmm wouldn't have expected that...oh well lucky you

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Sandman · 01-17-2002, 01:27 AM

That's a shitload of RAM, my friend.

divisionbell77 · 01-17-2002, 01:32 AM

The only real question is why you were NOT running it at higher than 800x600x32 int he first place.

poseyj · 01-17-2002, 01:36 AM

hey acgreen, i noticed ur in the northern california area, wanna go to a lan on friday, were gonna be doin allied assault full. heh just thought id ask

Naarkotix · 01-17-2002, 01:41 AM

u lucky bastard u

Inforit · 01-17-2002, 01:48 AM

Yes, I have a GF3 and I get the same results. I play at 1280x1024 at 32bit. Taking the resolution down to 1024x768 does not do anything to the frames or makes the frames go down.

Yeah there is definetly a bottleneck and its the card but the CPU.
I have a 1ghz cpu.

I guess thats good news for the card that it can handle alot more.

acgreen · 01-17-2002, 01:58 AM

Poseyj, heck yeah I'd like to have a LAN party. Where is it? I'm by Sacramento, so I hope it's near there...

Thanks,

AC

poseyj · 01-17-2002, 05:08 AM

acgreen: ahh sacramento, the lan is more up in northern california, in Chico, 95926.
its kinda near redding. doh thought u were more north.

acgreen · 01-17-2002, 05:16 AM

Aright man, thanks anyway.

AC

8827Echo · 01-17-2002, 05:22 AM

Damn, I got the exact same card as ya acgreen.

I outta try that sometime...

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