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Sunbird Huy
Caldari Shadow's Hunters Prismatic Refraction
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:00:00 -
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Ok, the interval thingie definitely makes difference in EVE for me.
If I set to default, the FPS sticks to 60FPS, and causes almost no heat. On the other hand, it drives me mad in belts, and anywhere else, where I get those choking effects as if Incredible Hulk was squeezing my GPU. Read: LAGG.
If I set to intermediate, oh baby now we're talking business. My dear FPS rockets to it's good ol' 150+, anywhere in space and station. No lagg whatsoever and no sign of slowdowns, or for that matter, mr. Incredible Hulk has probably run out of steam... It does make my poor ol' fan work like a slave in a Syracusan quarries...
So my question is. How to manually set my FPS to some 100 or so FPS, that should bring some balance to heat/lagg. Any advice is welcome.
P.S. No, you can't have my stuff, as I'm here to stay and wait for CCP to make EVE without any need for petitions and whines. So...Geriatric park with cable internet, here I come. :P
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Blane Xero
Amarr The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:04:00 -
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Raise your monitor refresh rate to the highest possible?.
All Vsnc does (Or Interval One) is Pins it to your refresh rate (or the nearest divisible). I've never seen a game that lets you actually set the refresh rate manually at anything other than VSync. ______________________________________________ Haruhiist since December 2008
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Lork Niffle
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:06:00 -
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Should be an option in your driver software to manually limit the max framerat you can acheive.
Or get a CRT which can go right up to 120Hz na dset it to 100Hz
Or fix the problem in the belts, could be an outdated driver a p2p progrma a problem in your game files, clear the cache.
give us more info ------------------------------------- Read my bio ingame for tips on how to live and not be called nasty names by me. |
Taedrin
Gallente Golden Mechanization Protectorate
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:18:00 -
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The issue is that interval one is the same as vsynch. Vsynch delays a frame update until your monitor has finished drawing the previous frame. This means that if your graphics card is too slow and takes more time to render the frame than it takes your monitor to draw the frame, your graphics card will wait for the next frame to be drawn before updating the screen. This means that for most situations, your frame rate will be either 60FPS (one frame for every screen "refresh"), 30FPS (one frame for every two screen "refreshes"), 15 FPS (one frame every 3 screen "refreshes"), etc etc...
The reason why interval immediate seems to cut down on lag considerably is that your GPU will "present" the frame as soon as it is rendered, even if the monitor is still drawing the previous frame. This will lead to a graphical artifact called "tearing", as the to top half of the screen might be the old frame while the bottom half might be the new frame. Please note that this is for CRT monitors. LCD monitors update the screen differently so the graphical artifacts might be the same, or might be different.
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Daelorn
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Posted - 2009.05.12 17:22:00 -
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I'm pretty sure that it only limits your FPS so if it were to drop below 60 FPS it would do so no matter what you set the interval at.
If you're talking about how smoother it is at 150fps then you just have to get use to it being at 60fps OR get turn up the fan on your GPU/better cooling (What GPU do you have and how hot is it anyways?)
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Sunbird Huy
Caldari Shadow's Hunters Prismatic Refraction
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Posted - 2009.05.14 13:18:00 -
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Edited by: Sunbird Huy on 14/05/2009 13:26:06 I'm using a laptop. It's barely 8 months old or so.
HP Pavillion dv5-1070ee is the model, with Vista 32-bit, home premium. As to hardware, it's got a 9600GT nvidia in itwith 512mb RAM, 4GB Ram, 300GB hard drive, and 2.53GHz dual core.
The thing is, I've searched for latest drivers for NVidia, but their solutions and download links are, at best - pathetic. In the end, I've reinstalled windows all together(via system restore - completely formating drives). The issue is still the same.
One note tho. The heat generated is more or less steady, it goes real warm and all, but I think it's not critical. I am going to start the system monitor tool within windows to keep an eye on temperatures and stuff. One of my friends downloaded a stability test program which basically tortures the computer to the max to determine it's stability. Drawback - it could burn your hardware and render it useless.
EDIT: I used Omega drivers on my old laptop that had ATI Radeon x1600. The site had rewritten drivers for both NVIDIA and ATI cards, I wish it had newer stuff on it.
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Mish'Kala
Minmatar FarSight Location and Recovery Services
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Posted - 2009.05.14 13:47:00 -
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I run an HP laptop and was concerned about the heat. Ive had a simple wooden riser board made with 3 40mm fans in it, they run from an old phone charger, so the USB system isnt loaded with supplying them. One fan runs directly under the laptop in take, one on the opposite side and one under the front.
Running them whilst playing eve makes a noticable drop in laptop temperature, especially when 2 boxing.
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Red Wid0w
Caldari Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2009.05.14 14:24:00 -
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Originally by: Mish'Kala I run an HP laptop and was concerned about the heat. Ive had a simple wooden riser board made with 3 40mm fans in it, they run from an old phone charger, so the USB system isnt loaded with supplying them. One fan runs directly under the laptop in take, one on the opposite side and one under the front.
Running them whilst playing eve makes a noticable drop in laptop temperature, especially when 2 boxing.
Or you could try..... you know.... just hear me out here..... RUNNING EVE ON A PC INSTEAD. What good is the damn laptop is you are carrying around a custom wooden cooling solution as well? Laptops are a complete waste of money for gaming. |
Mish'Kala
Minmatar FarSight Location and Recovery Services
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Posted - 2009.05.14 14:31:00 -
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Originally by: Red Wid0w
Or you could try..... you know.... just hear me out here..... RUNNING EVE ON A PC INSTEAD. What good is the damn laptop is you are carrying around a custom wooden cooling solution as well? Laptops are a complete waste of money for gaming.
At what point did i say i carried it around? get you head out of your arse and take you opinions with you. some of us do more than gaming with out computers and compromise between gaming performance and real life concerns.
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Sunbird Huy
Caldari Shadow's Hunters Prismatic Refraction
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Posted - 2009.05.15 10:04:00 -
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Amen Mish'Kala at responding to the "constructive" post of our friend there... Get your head of your rear end, and think a little before attempting to sound L33T and QL... There are people that went for practical solutions, not only for their mommy's pocket asking, "mom, can I have a super machine in my room"... My work takes me away from land for several months a year, and if I were to follow your """""brilliant"""""" "advice" I would be hauling a desktop casing, and a full set of cables and of course a monitor around the world...
I have a simple solution to heat tho. The table or desktop I am using the laptop on has a drawer that would be normaly used for keyboard of ordinary PC. I simply put the rear end of the casing on the desk, and front of the casing on the drawer, or slider, whatever it's called. The height of the rear part is 3-4 inches off the surface of the slider, and that really provides excelent solution for heat. If casing was directly on some surface, it would turn into the hell itself.
Or even a simplier solution. Get 2 pieces of wood, few inches high, with some stability, and simple lean the rear of the casing on those wood pieces.
Back to topic. Not really worried about the heat, since I use the above solution, even when I know it's a bit too high, it's the strain on the GPU that worries me, and the same for the fan.
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Litakn
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Posted - 2009.05.15 17:36:00 -
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Originally by: Blane Xero Raise your monitor refresh rate to the highest possible?.
All Vsnc does (Or Interval One) is Pins it to your refresh rate (or the nearest divisible). I've never seen a game that lets you actually set the refresh rate manually at anything other than VSync.
Everquest does... although it's been so long that I can't remember the slash command to do it anymore. I used to pin mine to 24 fps.
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Alfwen
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.05.15 18:21:00 -
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There should be an option in nvidia control panel named framerate limiter(or somesuch) where you can set the maximum frames/sec your card is allowed to draw.
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Daelorn
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Posted - 2009.05.15 18:37:00 -
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I still don't get it you're saying you get lag (only in) belts with EVE's Vsync on? So are you still getting 60 FPS in belts? Cause if you are then there should be no diffrence if you're at a station getting 60 fps or a belt getting 60 fps. Now if you warp to a belt and you FPS goes from 60 to 30 then even with Vsync off youd still get lag because it would still drop to 30fps.
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