I get around 20-30 FPS in Enemy Territory with a 6800gt

Post by **eepberries** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:14 am

My system specs:

Athlon 64 3800+
1gig ram
gigabyte Geforce 6800gt
Windows XP (32 bit)

I run Enemy Territory in 860x740 with minimum graphics settings. When indoors, my FPS is fine for the most part. But whenever I go outside, I usually get around 20-30 fps. This doesn't make sense. I can play Half-Life 2 on max settings at 1024x768 and get an awesome framerate, but I can't even get a mildly decent framerate in Enemy Territory with graphisc quality set very low? I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers.

Help :icon23:

Post by **Kills On Site** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:28 am

What about other OpenGL games, RTCW, Doom 3, Quake 3 and 4 etc? You might have a OpenGL problem, or a problem within ET. I would recommend reinstalling, maybe even redownloading and reinstalling, see if it renders anything different.

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:32 pm

Try updating your chipset drivers, 4-in-1s if you've got a VIA board.

Post by **eepberries** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:38 pm

My motherboard and video card drivers are already up to date.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:44 pm

Remove all .cfg files in your enemy territory folders, therefore resetting all the game settings to default.

Load the game, do not change anything except turning on the framerate counter, and see how it runs.

You should also address KOS' suggestion and mention your results here.

Post by **eepberries** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:55 pm

Removing the .cfg files didn't change anything. Reinstalling ET didn't change anything. I get a great framerate in Quake 3, it's always at like 90. Quake 4 runs okay in single player when I turn some of the settings down, not so hot in multiplayer with settings near minimal.

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:01 pm

90? I hope you have maxFPS on...?

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:45 pm

Bloody right, if not then it should be 200-300+

Post by **eepberries** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:08 am

Well, I'm assuming it's on since I haven't disabled it.

I have an ASRock motherboard. Is this bad?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:58 am

riddla wrote:Ask soapboy, he's the Asrock expert.

p.s. asrock sucks ass.

Far from an asrock expert.. and they suck for anything but web surfing..

Id almost blame the north bridge before the video card. simply because its an asrock..

Post by **DiscoDave** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:11 pm

asrock are fine..

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:43 pm

I've had nothing but bad experiences with their products.

Post by **GODLIKE** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:42 pm

Like KillsOnSite said: What is your performance like in other OpenGL games (if you have any)? Maybe you have a driver=type issue with openGL..

What quality settings are you using for the app in the NVIDIA driver ? You may have a different application profile set for Quake 3, given that you're getting very different results.

Post by **I cant spell u** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:25 pm

I had this problem with Quake 3 when I first installed it, I just reset my pc and it worked fine.If you just installed it reset your pc.

Post by **Wolfhound** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:37 am

Do you play with V-Sync enabled? if so enable in drivers triple buffering option

Post by **JooKed** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:59 am

Hmmmm.. If I remember correctly, I had a similar problem. I fixed it by uninstalling the game and playing something else. During the times I could play it, it was so-so. Like you, I was able to play indoors pretty normally. Maybe it could be a sound issue?
I tried to play the Timeshift demo, but aparantly I keep experiencing this werid sound bug. My fps will drop from an obvious high number to something a Geforce 4mx would experience. This is all on 640x detail low. Its really werid since if I were to look in another direction, my fps would go back to normal. I played like half of the short demo looking North-west.