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jvelite
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Joined: 04 May 2002
Posts: 19
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| Tips for faster framerates, etc. |
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Let me start out by saying that this may only apply to some of you out there. (DirectX developers).
My system specs:
AMD Athlon 800
ASUS A7V133 Motherboard
Sound Blaster Live VALUE
Geforce 3 Ti 200 (it's 200 right? )
512MB Ram
As you can see it's not the best system and it's not the worst. It's just about in the middle I would imagine.
OK, now that that's over I can go on with my findings. I had a lot of little problems which included (fast pink/black/green flickering when saving/zoning, soso framerates, and sound pops). They were acceptable and disappointing at the same time.
I decided to take it upon myself and check out some of my DirectX settings via DXDIAG. This can be found in the control panel as well as the start->run dialog with DXDIAG as the filename. The only problem is that this application might be for people who installed the DirectX SDK, can't remember.
After looking through the settings I noticed that most of the DirectX components (Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectShow, etc) were in DEBUG MODE! Since I'm a developer, debug mode is neccessary.
I switched them from debug mode to RETAIL MODE. I then started up morrowind. The first thing I noticed was that it loaded a heck of a lot quicker. Then the framerates immediately improved! I also noticed the flickering problem I had was exterminated!
My problems have been solved!
Hope this helps and thanks for listening!
- J |
Mon May 06, 2002 1:36 pm |
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