Video Settings = 0 Impact on FPS

DarthGreg · 09-20-2007, 06:05 AM

So I just decided to fool around with some settings and timedemos to determine what did and didn't have an impact on my overall framerate. What I found confused me. I found differences of less than 1 FPS between running in 800x600 vs. 1600x1200, DX7 vs. DX8 vs. DX9, low settings vs. maxed settings, no AA/AF vs. high AA/AF.

The only thing that made any kind of difference were NewKleer's config and the original FPS config. Either result in a net 20% performance increase, though the latter config also changes a lot of things (like the advanced video settings) that have 0 impact for me.

This is a newly-formatted system, running fully-updated Windows XP Pro SP2. Specs are:

CPU: AMD Athlon64 3500+ @ 2.2GHz
Video: NVIDIA 7800GT
Memory: 2GB PC4000
Mobo: ABIT AN8 Ultra

I can e-mail my dxdiag.txt to anyone interested, my web hosting doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

09-20-2007, 06:05 AM	#1
DarthGreg Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Video Settings = 0 Impact on FPS So I just decided to fool around with some settings and timedemos to determine what did and didn't have an impact on my overall framerate. What I found confused me. I found differences of less than 1 FPS between running in 800x600 vs. 1600x1200, DX7 vs. DX8 vs. DX9, low settings vs. maxed settings, no AA/AF vs. high AA/AF. The only thing that made any kind of difference were NewKleer's config and the original FPS config. Either result in a net 20% performance increase, though the latter config also changes a lot of things (like the advanced video settings) that have 0 impact for me. This is a newly-formatted system, running fully-updated Windows XP Pro SP2. Specs are: CPU: AMD Athlon64 3500+ @ 2.2GHz Video: NVIDIA 7800GT Memory: 2GB PC4000 Mobo: ABIT AN8 Ultra I can e-mail my dxdiag.txt to anyone interested, my web hosting doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

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