Frames Per Second

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:11 am

How many FPS should I be getting with a Radeon 9600 Saphire 256meg card?

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:04 am

On what?

That is WAY too broad of a question.

a 9600 will probably top out HL1 level graphics with about 70-90fps (depending on other factors)

You could run EQ2 "decent".

I need a more finite range in your question.

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:13 am

3.2 gig P IV
1 gig Atlas RAM
ASUS MB
ATI Radeon 9600 256 meg Saphire

SUSE 9.3 Linux

According to the system I am running about 342 FPS.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:51 am

I thought you meant what FPS you'd be getting on a specific game, or games.

342FPS on your desktop, idle, means dick to me :wink:

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:17 pm

Diekan wrote:3.2 gig P IV
1 gig Atlas RAM
ASUS MB
ATI Radeon 9600 256 meg Saphire

SUSE 9.3 Linux

According to the system I am running about 342 FPS.

Your dick must be >---< this big!

I imagine you must be using a 64" HD TV as your monitor so don't take this the wrong way if your monitor sucks.

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:29 pm

It might be the monitor... it's a cheap, generic brand. But I don't think the issue lies there.

By the way your girlfriend seems to like my dick :wink:

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:27 pm

FPS are meaningless when you don't actually have a clue what you're talking about

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:57 pm

Listen idiots. I ask a legit question and expect a legit reply. If you had a clue what you were talking about you'd answer the fucking question.

Unlike you I don't spend hours upon hours sitting alone in my room jacking off to my new issue of PC Magazine.

Post by **Martrae** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:14 pm

I have that exact same card and I don't have too many problems with games....other than a beta game that'll remain nameless.

What program are you using to calculate FPS?

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:19 pm

I use a very small program called glxgears, which is included in linux distros.

I don't do any gaming any more. And, I'm not having any problems... I'm just curious if anyone knows what the standard FPS is for THAT type of card. Basically, I'm just after if some FYI that I might be able to use to tweek my system to get more, or if I'm already set.

Some of our eggheads forget that not everyone masturbates to Alienware adds or reads PC Mag while sitting on the toilet.

Post by **Martrae** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:43 pm

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgea ... _Benchmark

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:48 pm

Diekan wrote:I use a very small program called glxgears, which is included in linux distros.

I don't do any gaming any more. And, I'm not having any problems... I'm just curious if anyone knows what the standard FPS is for THAT type of card. Basically, I'm just after if some FYI that I might be able to use to tweek my system to get more, or if I'm already set.

Some of our eggheads forget that not everyone masturbates to Alienware adds or reads PC Mag while sitting on the toilet.

everybody is pointing out that you're being stupid and not giving enough infos

you're asking teh equivalent of:

If I step on the gas pedal, how fast will my car go

vid cards aren't rated at a certain fps

you get FPS per game sorta thing

Post by **Gidan** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:11 am

glxgears really is a bad way to judge your vid card. On my 6800 glxgears will very by over 200FPS (full screen) depending on the day. You will also see different FPS on different games depending upon the game and whats going on in that game. You can try and look througt he results published on 3dmarks website for people with similar hardware. Your also going to see a slight loss in performance under linux, ATI sucks at linux drivers.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:03 am

Get another gig of ram as well.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:21 pm

Narrock wrote:Get another gig of ram as well.

feel free to show some of your usage of ram. don't care if it's via snmp, or just screen shots of your perf mon

there's not a lot out there right now that'll make use of more than 1 gb of ram

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:58 pm

Tikker wrote:
Narrock wrote:Get another gig of ram as well.

feel free to show some of your usage of ram. don't care if it's via snmp, or just screen shots of your perm mon

there's not a lot out there right now that'll make use of more than 1 gb of ram

I won't disagree with you there, but Battlefield 2 runs a HELL of a lot smoother, now that I have 2gb's of ram instead of 1. One gig would be fine for BF2 if it was like PC6000 ultra low latency.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:17 pm

I need 2gb for all the shitty programs designed for Windows that have memory leaks.

Without it I would need to restart my PC more often than the once every couple months that I am currently at.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:50 pm

I use a program to flush my memory after I run shit like EQ2 or anything memory intensive.

Fuck restarting...

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:54 pm

Its not that simple, there are some system critical processes from a couple different vendors that my machine has to run due to hardware uniqueness. NVidia, Logitech, and a few others. Shutting them down crashes my PC no matter how much I micro manage.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:00 pm

That sucks

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:36 pm

10sun wrote:I need 2gb for all the shitty programs designed for Windows that have memory leaks.

Without it I would need to restart my PC more often than the once every couple months that I am currently at.

that's a completely different situation, heh