An effective way to reduce the appearence of "chugging&

Nacho_Man

Hi all, I recently purchased a MSI G4TI4400 and the thing runs great. But I found a certain amount of "chugging" ingame. It wasnt from bad FPS, it was actually from skipping from like 80 FPS to 60 FPS. I decided to experiment a little and tried setting my maxfps as 60. You would not believe what this does. My framerates stay steady at 60 FPS and there is no sign of chugging due to framerate drops. Just thought I would share this with the rest of ya.

goneaway · 08-17-2002, 01:01 PM

wow. cool:

=[DOA]=Meat Grinder · 08-18-2002, 08:17 PM

If your fps is dropping every second then you need to empty the slot next to video card. It works. Sure the fps changes as you move around. But stare at a wall and they should stay fairly constant. Mine was in the 90's dropping to 70's or more. My sound card was next to my video card. Now I have smooth movement. You wanna keep your fps high if possible.

=[DOA]=BallBuster · **Hey Nacho Man -** 08-18-2002, 09:22 PM

Yes...

The vid card is in an AGP slot. The slot next to it is 1 of 5 PCI slots

The 1st PCI slot shares the same IRQ as the AGP slot
This causes problems in some XP machines when
you are playing Medal Of Honor

I had the same "Stutter" on my new Dell box as
MeatGrinder did - mine was not as bad

The problem cleared up 100% on both machines when
the slot next to the vid card (AGP) was cleared out

Once the 'puter was rebooted, XP re-assigned IRQs
and in both cases the vid card was on its own IRQ
where as before it was sharing an IRQ with the 1st PCI slot

Even though shared IRQs in XP are not a problem this was
a problem for this game - no other problems were encountered

Yup... ripleys believe it or not

=[DOA]=BallBuster

snipeymagoo · 08-18-2002, 09:25 PM

english plze? lol

Nacho_Man · 08-18-2002, 10:08 PM

Yeah, I understand where you are coming from, both the DOA guys, but Im talking about getting 80's when Im walking around, then as firefights begin its drops down to the 60s, and this gives the appearence of chugging. when I set the maxFPS to 60, it doesnt chug at this point, and looks exactly the same when I had my FPS at 80 or 90. I have only one PCI slot taken up, and that is the bottom one. Also, your eye can only see at 25-30 fps, so basically anything above like 40 is non-distiguishable.

=[DOA]=Meat Grinder · 08-19-2002, 07:17 AM

Ok, I'm willing to try this. Tell me how to do it.

Nacho_Man · 08-19-2002, 09:08 PM

heres how you do it, you go into the console and type com_maxfps 60, or whatever framerate you want to cap it out at, depending on the graphics card. If you were to want to keep it this way, you would have to enter this in the target box in your MOHAA shortcut, otherwise you need to enter it every time you play.

[NBK] G.I. Jerk · 08-19-2002, 09:10 PM

You can cfg it too

Slinky2397 · 08-19-2002, 09:10 PM

MSI.......ERYAH!@!U@*(!&U!!! I hate MSI. MSI made my Gf2, it is real bad! mad: mad: mad:

[NBK] G.I. Jerk · 08-19-2002, 09:19 PM

MSI,.... Asus.... the real Nvidia....

I never compared them side by side so I draw no conclusions except for price.

In my mind a chipset is a chipset.....

I had a voodoo3 2k 16M... it got mohaa going but barely (800x600 low to med on athlon 750 w/448 ram...30 FPS at best)...then I got a TNT2 32M card.... same FPS but I could got Med-High on some settings....Now with a MSI (heh heh) GF4 Ti4200 I can do ANYTHING on ANY setting (high to MAX) up to 1280x1224 (my monitor's maximum) and never fall below the magical mumber for fluidness to the human eye... IE: 24-30 FPS except under EXTREEM conditions....(not the norm).

MSI made me happy.... IU dont give a rats ass WHO soldered the GF4 chip to the board. Same shit different pile....

Nacho_Man · 08-19-2002, 10:39 PM

This MSI is really working well for me. I went to Toms hardware, and looked at the benchmarks and saw that it was towards the top of the list, and the fact that it has a monster software bundle and that I got it for less than 200 bucks retail, Id say that isnt bad biggrin: