Nvidia drivers.

[[AK]Goob]

I was playing around with my system and decided to change my vid drivers. I went from 6.5 to 10.8. Man what a boost I went from 2630 2001 Mark to 3089. Thats with no card overclocking. I am hoping it will improve the T2 gameplay just enough so I can bump my vid quality back up.

-Goob

[pixelsponge]

What Gforce card do you have? I have gf2 mx 32 mb, using 6.5 and I got a score close to 2000. Maybe I should try to do the same.

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One of these days this will work

[Slaughter]

You also might want to remove your .dso files from your tribes 2 directory.. theres about 275 of them... Taking those out took my fps from 15-20 outside to 40-50 outside. Quite helpful bit of info I got from a MHz friend.

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[AK]Slaughter
slaughter@augustknights.com
'The slaughter fest has begun, punk.'

Slautganken - Lvl 10 Human Paladin
Slaughterin - Lvl 5 Barbarian Warrior
Slaughtarol - Lvl 7 Iskar Monk
Shokwaive - Lvl 2 Human Magician
Ozumar - Lvl 2 Dark Elf Shadow Knight
Moonika - Lvl 2 High Elf Enchanter

[Zorro]

They stole that from me... I posted that in the TW forums and Panama Jack ripped me off and took the credit for it... dick...

[AK]Zorro

Chief Operations Officer
<a href="http://www.augustknights.com" target="_blank">AugustKnights.com</a> WizOp

[[AK]Goob]

I have an Asus v7700 card ( basically Geforce 2 gts 32mbddr ram) An update to the above..I also downloaded nvmax v2 and did a little overclocking. I bumped the mem speed from 200-&gt;220 and 330-&gt;348. That raised my score to 3250.

Hey Z I can vouch for ya. I saw your post on the Linixtribes forum where you were talking about that. That was when I was first playing around getting my server set up. I got your back

[Dr_K]

Goob, are you using 3DMark 2000 to benchmark with or what ?
I took the suggestion of wiping the .dso files, and though it didn't seem to increase fps, it did seem to rid me of the nasty lock-ups I was getting since the last patch. Thanks for the post, Slaughter and the original observation Z.

PS, I'm using a Hercules GTS II 32meg @ 1024x768 using ver 10.8 drivers with win98SE. With 3DMark 2000 I get 5760

Dr_K

[NeverRetreat]

I'm sure Zorro has me beat but I'm hitting 7083 with my Leadtek GF2 GTS 64MB

[AK]NeverRetreat

[[AK]Goob]

I am using 3D Mark 2001. In Mark 2000 I usually get right at 8000.

I think I am going to upgrade soon too. OCZ has overclocked AMD's running at approx 1.5GHZ for 179 bucks. That and a killer new heatsink and I should be good to go.

-Goob

[[AK]Abaddon]

All right you gearheads,

What are the dso files? I don't feel comfortable deleting something if I don't know what it does. Will I ever want them?

I have my GeForce II MX 32mb overclocked to 190/190, running on a Pentium III 733, 256 megs RAMBUS memory at 372 mhz - and I get 2181 marks in 3DMark 2001. Any other ideas to speed this thing up?

Also, how do I show framerate in T2? I did something Wolff told me (yeah, I know, heh), and all I got was a little white box in the upper left corner of my screen that said "framerate," with no readouts. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Abaddon

[Wolff]

.dso files are generated by tribes 2. deleting them does not affect your game at all. promise.

wolff

[Zorro]

Actually, the .dso files are compiled versions of the .cs files. Tribes has a preference towards the .dso files even if the .cs files are newer, after, say, a patch... If you delete them, they just get recompiled on your next start of Tribes. Painless and a good idea IMHO...

[AK]Zorro

Chief Operations Officer
<a href="http://www.augustknights.com" target="_blank">AugustKnights.com</a> WizOp

[Dr_K]

Ab,
For frame rates, hit the tilde (~) to bring up the command line, then type:

show("framecounter()");

It should show your fps. Also, I hate to ask, but do you have your AGP set to 4X in your bios? Some bios default to 1X and require a manual setting to 4X (don't know why ).

Good luck. Dr_K

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[Pixelsponge]

Or you can get a nice little FPS hud at
http://scripts.tribalwar.com/crunchy/

There is also a nice little hud for ping, I use them both. Although I often get sad watching my fps drop everytime a lot of people get around me.

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[Dr_K]

Pix, Thanks for the tip on the crunchy script. Thats pretty slick and sooo much easier.

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[Squidly]

What kind of machines are you all running?

I have a DELL PIV 1.5, 256Meg PC800, GeForce 2 MX (jonesin' for that GeForce 3 already...

Connecting via cable.