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Wiley Wilson
Village Dweller
Joined: 27 Jul 2002
Posts: 15
Location: UK |
| Suggestions on how you could improve your FPS (quite long) |
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After reading on this group about so many people annoyed with low frame rates, I thought I would post my findings and experience with a view to maybe helping those with "decent" systems (1600Mhz+, Geforce 3+ card) who are stuggling to get over 10FPS. In light of reading this, you may save the month or so time it has taken me to get Morrowind playing like I always thought it should.
Original spec - 1200 AMD Thuderbird, 256MB RAM, GF2 GTS
Bought Morrowind
Upgraded RAM to 512MB
Over a period of a month tried combinations of Unofficial patch, unpatched and 1.1.060 patch.
Test - Standing with my back to the water in Seyda Neen with the dock to my left and looking into the village (between the 2 Census and Excise builings):
Result - Half draw distance, no shadows, near AI, pixel shading off, music off, averaged 8 FPS
Conclusion - RAM made insignificant difference (marginally faster load times), but "unofficial" patch made a noticeable difference (about 3 FPS)
Gutted
Sick of lack of performance, on 27th July, I upgraded to 1800XP, new motherboard, Hercules 8500LE graphics card. After 5 nights of reformatting and trying about 10 different combinations (with many combinations, Morrowind would crash to desktop constantly) of chipset drivers, graphics card drivers and various morrowind patch releases , - not an hour ago
- VICTORY -
Test - as above
Result - Full detail, 1/2 shadows, near AI, pixel shading off, Unofficial patch - 17 FPS, 1.1.060 - 17 FPS, 1.2.0722 19 FPS
Conclusion - Frame rates have more than doubled, AND I've doubled the draw distance AND I've got 1/2 shadows. Note that the latest patch is 2 FPS quicker on average and with pixel shading on, FPS dropped by 3 FPS.
To round up, (with the exception of your system specs) drivers seem to be key - stops crashes and boosts performance. Get a good system configuration and the rest should fall into place
Now please, do not get me wrong - I'm not posting this to "show off", I was sooooo disappointed with the performance of this game that I'd watched throughout it's development that I was determined to get it working well. Especially since I feel the game is worth it and with the mod support it has, will keep me going for a long time to come.
Good luck - feedback welcome. |
Fri Aug 02, 2002 7:51 pm |
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BearishSun
City Guard
Joined: 02 Jun 2002
Posts: 145
Location: Here, there, everywhere |
Lol, you wasted a lot of money, only thing you needed to upgrade was ur graphic card. I have Athlon 1400 Thunderbird, 256 RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4600, and running on WinXP and I get 23-30 FPS in balmora ALL maxed out, all turned on, 18 - 25 FPS if raining |
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Fri Aug 02, 2002 8:11 pm |
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Mephisto
Leader of the Senate
Joined: 05 May 2002
Posts: 300
Location: Holland |
I'm going to upgrade to Athlon 1800/512mb ddr ram/GF4ti4200 128mb. My old p120/32mb EDO ram/Stealth2+Voodoo1 isnt really top-notch anymore. |
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Fri Aug 02, 2002 10:00 pm |
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sauron38
Rara Avis
Joined: 14 Jan 2002
Posts: 4396
Location: Winnipeg's Sanctum Sanctorum |
quote:
Originally posted by Mephisto
I'm going to upgrade to Athlon 1800/512mb ddr ram/GF4ti4200 128mb. My old p120/32mb EDO ram/Stealth2+Voodoo1 isnt really top-notch anymore.
Godspeed... 
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Make good choices. |
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Fri Aug 02, 2002 10:01 pm |
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Wiley Wilson
Village Dweller
Joined: 27 Jul 2002
Posts: 15
Location: UK |
Normally, Bearish I'd agree. I certainly conceed that the GF4 4600 is a mighty card - albeit at a steep price! (in the UK anyway). Fortunately I purchased the hercules on ebay at a knockdown bid and the CPU/mobo at a computer fair. Combined with putting the kit together myself and flogging my old Gfx card, mobo and CPU - I'm very happy wihh the cost of my upgrade!
Cheers |
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Fri Aug 02, 2002 10:21 pm |
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shockzero
Village Dweller
Joined: 08 Jul 2002
Posts: 9
Location: Pennsylvania,USA |
he needed the cpu and ram upgrade as well...if not ..a geforce 4 ti4600 would just have been bottlenecked
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Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:55 pm |
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