wtf my game is capped at 30fps?

[Dr.Scurveh]

i just formatted my computer a few days ago and the game runs like **** now.. it seems it wont go above 30 fps unless i look right at the floor...

i have a geforce6800 gt BFG.. 1 gig ram amd 3200+ cant figure out wtf is going on.. same settings as before i formatted my computer..? i remember i downloaded some small program before that was supposed 'to make it more choppy' but i cant remember what it was and i think it was from this forum..

[Sniper_13]

might be up to the patch, suggest just wait for the new patch or reinstall BF2

[pilvlp]

How do you check your FPS in game?

[ptegan]

How do you check your FPS in game?

In the console screen :

Console.showfps 1/0 (When enabled shows your current Frames Per Second (FPS) in the top left corner of the screen)
Console.showstats 1/0 (When enabled shows a range of system performance information)

[claevade]

You probably got a 6800 GT, it's a well known problem, mess around with the drivers and pray is the best solution.

[LT.INSTG8R]

Did you remember to reinstall the Chipset Drivers?

[Gunny Highway]

It could be because you have V-sync enabled and your gfx card can't produce enough FPS equal to that of your Hz of monitor of your gaming resolution.

V-sync or vertical syncronization, syncronizes the frames that the vid card produces with the refresh rate (Hz) so if you have your monitor at 60Hz FPS will not go higher than 60. Running at higher Hz is often the preferbaly fix rather than just disabling v-sync, that is if you can produce enough FPS.

This means that if you get 200FPS and run 60Hz with v-sync disabled, your FPS counter might show 200FPS but your monitor can't render at 200Hz and this can cause tearing of frames so you get cuts in images and it looks bad. This happens more if FPS produced is higher than the Hz of monitor.

Here is why you could get 30FPS if V-sync enabled:
If you can't render 60FPS because of system limitations but only only FPS below 60 and v-sync tries to sync it, v-sync will try to fit it into 1/2 of Hz next, so in case of 60Hz/2 = 30 FPS. So if you run at 100Hz it will try at 50Hz next if the FPS is below 100 and so on.

So in short if you get FPS below the Hz of your monitor all the time, the benifits of V-sync aren't that great and can be disabled and tearing i minimal.

If you get FPS above your Hz mostly 1) raise the Hz to the highest possible the monitor support at your gaming resolution and 2) enable v-sync to get rid of tearing, as tearing is more frequent if FPS > Hz.

Either way run at highest Hz, if you have LCD you can't get the high Hz like on a CRT so v-sync will limit more on those and that is also a factor to consider when disabling. On a LCD the Hz doesn't limit the FPS that the monitor can render the response rate does, but v-sync will still limit according to Hz. To get the theoretical FPS a LCD can render you take 1000/response time, e.g. 1000/16ms=~60FPS, so the lower response time equals more FPS on a LCD in theory.

OT: Hi LT.INSTG8R, saw your response in the modded driver thread on second read yesterday :hi:

[Sniper_13]

at least u have 30 fps i have 15 :)

[LT.INSTG8R]

Well to me it sounds like the AGP drivers are missing but thats just me....

Hey Gunny nice seein ya again:hi:

[TheInvisibleMan]

In the console screen :

Console.showfps 1/0 (When enabled shows your current Frames Per Second (FPS) in the top left corner of the screen)
Console.showstats 1/0 (When enabled shows a range of system performance information)

Um, these don't work at all...

I believe what you are thinking is the 'renderer.drawfps 1' command for the FPS display...

[Dr.Scurveh]

YEA i have a 6800gt.. and i have my latest MOBO Drivers and latest nvidia graphics drivers.. also i am playing with Vsync on.. but come on 30 fps? really lame

[Bathazar]

turn off Vsync...

[DrunkenPirate]

What actual forceware version?

[Dr.Scurveh]

my nvidia motherboard drivers say they are version 5.1 and my graphics card driver is 77.72

[DrunkenPirate]

Latest NForce version is 6.66 afaik.

Also, these are the latest NVidia GFX drivers:
NVidia Forceware 77.56 WHQL drivers for Windows 2000/XP 32bit
NVidia Forceware 77.56 WHQL drivers for Windows 2000/XP 64bit