Performance and FPS

[Mr.Chupon]

Hey everyone,

First of all here are my cpu specs:

Celeron 2.0ghz
1.00 gb of ram
Radeon 9800 pro
Syncmaster 955mb monitor

What really help get high fps is it cpu speed or graph card? Because I tryed to play dod whit a fx5200 whit the same spec and I got about 30 fps at 1024*1028, and now I play whit a radeon 9800 and I get 30 fps at the same resolution, could someone explain becuase im kind of lost...


Now when I try to play halflife2 whit everything low and 640*380(or something like that) at the level outside the museum where u fight striders I get 10 fps whit the radeon and the fx.

Now can someone explain how is it possible to get 87 fps like the benchmark they did that that site : http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281&p=8

And if I get myself a pentium 4 3.0 ghz would that get my fps up to the 70-80.

 

[OmegaX]

Your graphics card is great, you RAM is great. It must be your CPU, even though you still should be getting higher fps then that. Just get that 3.0Ghz and it should work fine.

 

[bosox188]

The graphics card is fine, 9800 pro is really good, fx5200 is a very bad card, forget about it. The gig of ram is perfect. The processor is very, very bad. That's what's holding you back, it's bottlenecking your whole system. Upgrade to the Pentium 4 and you'll be fine.

 

[Asus]

My friend also gets low FPS in DoD but everyother game is great with his 9800pro. Not really sure what's up.

I guess I would try using driver cleaner software and then reinstall the newest ATI drivers.

 

[Alan Freeman]

The graphics card is fine, 9800 pro is really good, fx5200 is a very bad card, forget about it. The gig of ram is perfect. The processor is very, very bad. That's what's holding you back, it's bottlenecking your whole system. Upgrade to the Pentium 4 and you'll be fine.

what he said, i had the same specs you have now and when i changed my cpu i got 95.3 on vst.

 

[Ti133700N]

Your should upgrade your CPU but Asus also has a very good point with the driver cleaner. You said you tried with a FX (nvidia) and with a 9800 (ATI). The correct way of isntalling new drivers is this:

1. Download the new drivers
2. Download driver cleaner http://www.drivercleaner.net/
3. Install driver cleaner
4. Uninstall your video drivers
5. reboot in safe mode
6. Don't install something, skip any install process that popup
7. Uninstall the "temp video drivers"
8. Run driver cleaner
9. Clean all the cab files, nvidia drivers and ATI drivers
10. Delete any temp folder that could contain drivers files
11. Reboot
12. Install the new drivers
13. Reboot

Play HL2

 

[Mr.Chupon]

I went the easy way, I just reformated

 

[nofx]

You should still properly clean your drive and stuff if you want the most out of your card.

 

[Washuu]

Celeron's are horrible for gaming, they have low cache, and other things that draw it down. I would definately think that would be a major bottleneck.

 

[CastleBravo]

Celerons are pretty awful processors. Don't let the clock speed fool you, a P4 2.0 would be a much better performer.