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BlackVenom
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Posted - 2005.01.09 15:43:00 -
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Hi guys, iam running
ASUS K8N Mobo AMD 64 3700+ ( Socket 754 ) 2x512 Ram pc2700 ( i think ) Hercules Prophet 9800pro 128MB Audigy 2 ZS platinum pro Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2
As soon as iam in combat fps drops from 100 to 20-30fps, which is not cool! ( running windows mode )
2 accounts and 1 runs smooth ( the one active on the background ) and the second one goes below 1fps, then i activate that one and the other one goes below 1fps. I want em both atleast 50/50. What can be the cause of this rather dissapointing fps, is it EVE? or My hardware?
Mobo latest driver + bios, same for the rest accept the cpu, dunno if u can anyway.
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BlackVenom
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Posted - 2005.01.10 08:50:00 -
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So no one has a slightest idea of this thing? Not even devs/forum mods?
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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.01.14 12:18:00 -
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Originally by: BlackVenom Hi guys, iam running
ASUS K8N Mobo AMD 64 3700+ ( Socket 754 ) 2x512 Ram pc2700 ( i think ) Hercules Prophet 9800pro 128MB Audigy 2 ZS platinum pro Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2
As soon as iam in combat fps drops from 100 to 20-30fps, which is not cool! ( running windows mode )
2 accounts and 1 runs smooth ( the one active on the background ) and the second one goes below 1fps, then i activate that one and the other one goes below 1fps. I want em both atleast 50/50. What can be the cause of this rather dissapointing fps, is it EVE? or My hardware?
Mobo latest driver + bios, same for the rest accept the cpu, dunno if u can anyway.
The fps drop in combat is fairly normal I think - I get it to a small extent too, but I don't start with the huge fps that you do so the effect isn't so noticable to me.
As for your two-client problem, my only guess is that the process priority system is doing something strange. I'm not familiar with Windows XP, but I know in win2000 you could tell it to optimise for the active process or background tasks (which was described as a "server" option) - the first option giving practically everything to the active program and screwing everything else. You might try finding that (no idea where in WinXP) and seeing if that helps.
The only other thing I can suggest is finding your two eve instances in the "processs" tab of task manager (they'll both be called "eve.exe") and check they're both running at a reasonable priority level, though they should be unless you've specifically set them otherwise. They should be somewhere around "normal" priority, certainly not below "below normal". and not any higher than "normal", else they'll start stealing time from essential system processes and your performance will drop.
One thing to note though is that you'll never get it to a perfect 50/50 split with one window active and one not, but you should be able to do better than an all/nothing split.
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BlackVenom
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Posted - 2005.01.15 16:57:00 -
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there both on priorety normale. But i wish it would be better then it is now. Sometimes it doesnt feel very good for ur pc when one is doing 1fps :)
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BlackVenom
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Posted - 2005.01.15 17:00:00 -
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Edited by: BlackVenom on 15/01/2005 17:00:37 hmpf dubble post
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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.01.17 15:36:00 -
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Originally by: BlackVenom there both on priorety normale. But i wish it would be better then it is now. Sometimes it doesnt feel very good for ur pc when one is doing 1fps :)
Mmm, you could try setting them both to "below normal", that might persuade windows not to hog everything with the active version. Though if your computer is running things other than eve at the same time, it will mean that gets priority over eve, which isn't so good.
Whilst being annoying, the background one running 1fps isn't actually bad for your pc...the only potential problem is if it stops processing altogether, then it'll time out and disconnect you. But if that's not happening, you should be ok.
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THIEFs
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Posted - 2005.01.18 23:18:00 -
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dont know about x64 procesors, but for Pentium 4 there are basically 2 cpus on 1 dice. and if you rightclick the eve process you can assign it to use either cpu 1 or cpu 2. set 1 client to cpu1 and he otherone to cpu 2. Works for me.
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Matthew
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Posted - 2005.01.19 13:09:00 -
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Originally by: THIEFs dont know about x64 procesors, but for Pentium 4 there are basically 2 cpus on 1 dice. and if you rightclick the eve process you can assign it to use either cpu 1 or cpu 2. set 1 client to cpu1 and he otherone to cpu 2. Works for me.
What you're talking about there is Intel's HyperThreading. There aren't actually 2 CPU's on one die - they just use some clever pipeline management tricks to optimise 2 tasks running in parallel. To make use of those tricks, windows is fooled into thinking there are 2 CPU's. Use as you describe should work, but it's very much dependant on individual applications as to whether it gives any improvement. For some programs it actually makes things highly unstable! Note that no AMD chips have this feature.
The current HyperThreading is not to be confused with true dual-core processors, which are still in development (at both Intel and AMD), and many months from retail. Intel especially need to sort out their heat-generation issues - the current test samples have a thermal design guideline of 130W. Given the current crop of Pentiums are at about 112W and are pushing conventional heatsinks to the limit, they're either going to have to sort that out, or ship them with water-coolers.
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lythos miralbar
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Posted - 2005.01.21 17:17:00 -
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It is possible in windows to set the "performance boost" aplications recieve over other aplications (not the process priority) and also what should take priority.... applications or background services.
i think this can be found by right clicking on your my computer icon, clicking on 'properties', going to the 'performance' tab and it is in there somewhere..
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Takanis
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Posted - 2005.01.29 11:38:00 -
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I've had extreme performance loss when fireing at times, but it goes away when logging out an back in. Play with your video settings, eventually you should find a configuration where it doesn't happen.
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Schani Kratnorr
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Posted - 2005.01.30 06:06:00 -
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Also make sure you have the latest version of DirectX. -- "I am an expert in not caring. The trick is to stop giving a rat's ass about anyone else and start thinking about what YOU want, what YOU diserve, what the world ows YOU!" - Bender |
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