Interesting FPS experiement with Source.

[Jed]

I haven't had a chance to do any benchmark tests with HaJ yet as it's not optimised well enough to make the results valid. However, out of curiosity I ran the CS:S video performance test on my machine at different video settings and was pretty suprised by the result.

800x600 windowed = 74.53 fps
1072x768 windowed = 63.10 fps
1152x864 windowed = 21.76 fps

800x600 full screen = 92.58 fps
1072x768 full screen = 89.18 fps
1152x864 full screen = 87.60 fps
1280x768 full screen = 86.75 fps
1280x960 full screen = 84.41 fps
1600x1200 full screen 65.52 fps

My machine is pretty basic - P4 2.6Ghz HT 800Mhz FSB with a Gainward 6600GT 128MB AGP and 1GB of PC3200 Ram. Video settings were high on everything, no AA, trilinear, no HDR or Bloom - so fairly average.

What I was suprised by the most was how little FPS you lose running fullscreen vs windowed. Guess it's no rocket science but it was nice to see the figures.

[War Pig]

It's not rocket science? Damn...I've been fooled all along. :(

Which brings me to the question: what kind of system would one roughly need to run it smoothly?

[Ginger Lord]

The days of windowed running giving greater FPS are over!

I suspected it was slower in Source, still had 80fps anyway. Back to 1280*1024!

[War Pig]

A bit OT., but I wonder if they've come up with a comp to the date, that could run Delta Force 2 (or the first one for that matter! :o ) smoothly.

Gnn...windowed playing teh sux! :lol:

Source (at least CS:S) wasn't that bad. Even I was able to run it relatively well with an old 1.7Ghz, 256mb, 8500 ATI 128mb system. :) I guess those days are gone, huh.. :roll:

[Jed]

Yeah. My system struggles with new games these days :( Trouble is upgrading will require moving to PCI-E and a new processor socket so its not going to be cheap.

[crookedJ0K3R]

I get roughly 40FPS or so running at 1280x960 FULL

And I run a AMD 2800+ 64bit @ 1.8MHZ, 512MB of DDRAM, and a Radeon 9600xt 256mb

Maybe I'll drop the res a bit to increase my fps.

[Waldo]

I'm pretty happy to run windowed mainly so I can have other stuff going on in the screen. Email, chat, etc. If there was a nice way to fip between the monitors on a dual-monitor system taht would be great.

[El Capitan]

I've got a dual screen setup too, can't live without it! I have all my chat programs and music, etc on my secondary screen and everything else on this one.

I must say Windowed mode is extremely useful for testing small changes to map geometry, it saves the long wait whilst you tab out!

[Jed]

El, you know theres a setting in the nVidia drivers to optimise performance for one screen? It gives your main "game" monitor a FPS boost if you switch to single screen performance. I think you have to turn on Advanced settings and its in the list.

[Ginger Lord]

I wish I had dual screens. Need to find another £17" TFT.

[War Pig]

What kind of system would roughly be adequate enough to play the game?

That is, would my old 1.7Ghz, 8500 128 ATI system run it, if I'd put more mem in? Currently it has only 256mb iirc, but upgrading somewhere near 1gig wouldn't be too costly.

Or would it all be just in vain? The above mentioned system was able to run CS:S okay-ish.

[Ginger Lord]

I suspect if you can run DoD:S at an acceptable rate, HaJ will play a bit better.

[El Capitan]

Yeah Jed, its cool the stuff you can do with a dual setup.

GL: I've got about 5 17" CRT Trinitron's sitting on my bedroom floor right now, feel free to come and pick one up!! You can have the one that says "Tiny" on the corner ;)

[War Pig]

I suspect if you can run DoD:S at an acceptable rate, HaJ will play a bit better.

That's the thing, I haven't tried DOD:S on my system. But, given that CS:S was okay-ish, I could buy extra mem and then give it a go.

[Jed]

I think your processor is whats going to hold you up WP. My graphic card is fine, its just that my processors getting a bit bogged down with all the physics and stuff.

[War Pig]

Well.. I guess it wouldn't be that much more expensive to upgrade the processor as well as put in more mem. As long as it wouldn't require a mobo change. :o

Erm. The whole upgrading circus isn't acute yet, gotta look into it in June or so. First, I need to find the darn used cheapass 12" iBook somewhere.
:?

Being a student sucks moneywise! :lol:

[zone trooper]

my computer can run CS:Source fairly good expect for the stuttering which i think is the wireless internet not sending enough packets or information to my computer to keep up. here are my computer specs.

intel pentuim 4 3.06GHz 1mb cache
windows XP media center edition 2005
160GB hard drive
512mb ram*
geforce 6200 256mb*
dual layer DVD drive, CD drive rewriter
17" TFT montior

*i will need to upgrade my ram from 512mb to about 1GB or more maybe 2GB
*i need to upgrade my geforce 6200 256mb to a 6600 or above to get more FPS. the only problem with my graphics card at the moment is that its 256mb but when i updated the drivers for the graphics card it went from 256mb to 128mb is there anyway to change it back from 128mb to 256mb?

[jmc0b]

dod:s runs fairly well on my machine.. with little or no hic-ups..

p4 3ghz.. gig ram and 6800gt

1024x768 i get about 60-70fps...