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Ignorance WAS bliss- A tale of Call of Duty 2

post #1 of 18
12/1/05 at 12:32pm
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So, I've been playing Call of Duty 2 for about 2 weeks having a good ole time thinking my framerate was great on my XPS2.

I usually play 1400x900, 4xAA, Anistropic, everything else set to high and though it was running fast. On my TV, I run it at 1024x768 w/ same settings.

So of course I use Fraps and it tell me that I'm only getting about 18-25fps!!!

Ain't that !!

I know, if I've been enjoying it all this time...but now that I know, what WAS playable isn't anymore....this SUCKS!!!

Anyway, I did some tweaks from the tweakpage (can't remember the link) and they helped. Now I play at 1280x?? (16:10) and with texture settings on Normal and AA on 2x, World only on Smoke and it gives me a respectable 40fps or so....I tried DX7 which gives you about 90-100fps but the graphical drop is not worth the extra fps to me. Anyway, with the new settings it runs faster and looks about the same.
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XPS2
2ghz
6800 ultra
80gb 5400rpm
1gb Ram
81.95 NVIDIA drivers (laptop2go)
ect, ect....
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post #2 of 18
12/1/05 at 1:22pm
A similar thing happened to me - I've been playing BF2 on my 6000 at my full resolution (1680x1050) at low settings and it feels like it runs great.

Then I used fraps and found that I get around 25-30 FPS - not bad, but certainly not the ideal 40-50!

I don't think I'll change any settings though - as long as it feels like it runs smoothly, I'm happy with it!
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post #3 of 18
12/1/05 at 1:27pm
If you can play it and dont notice it, why change?
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post #4 of 18
12/1/05 at 1:36pm
This is something I am going to have to check out tonight. I didn't know about FRAPS until this thread. I've learned so much from this site. I'll post my FPS in here tonight.
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post #5 of 18
12/1/05 at 2:05pm
Not to be mean, but how can you not notice the choppness of 18-25fps?
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post #6 of 18
12/1/05 at 2:11pm
I was wondering the same...when I reach that stage it's time to drop settings/resolution

John
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post #7 of 18
12/1/05 at 2:59pm
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Originally Posted by shoman24v
Not to be mean, but how can you not notice the choppness of 18-25fps?
No offense taken. I bet if you ask a lot of new pc gamers or casual gamers(those who don't regularly troll these boards or are new to pc gaming) they don't or wouldn't really notice either. I never even knew about or cared about FPS, FRAPS, ghz, ram, ect before I found this site.

It's like this. If you don't know what you're missing, you won't miss it. Most of the non-noobs have been playing pc for a while and know and see the difference. If you're coming from consoles like I am, you don't really notice until its pointed out to you.

But now that I've seen CoD with higher frames, I can't play it the way I used to even though I didn't notice before because now I do notice... Get it?
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post #8 of 18
12/1/05 at 3:04pm
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Originally Posted by kalis104
If you can play it and dont notice it, why change?
Because now they know, like the OP said "Ignorance WAS bliss".

Some thing are best not to know, like why my brother looks like the milk man...
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post #9 of 18
12/1/05 at 3:45pm
Let me get this straight. You're not RECORDING with Fraps while you're checking FPS are you? If there's one thing that will eat a machine's frame-rate alive, it is recording with Fraps. Most all games have some sort of console command to display FPS without having to use a third party program like fraps, which will eat up your resources.
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post #10 of 18
12/1/05 at 3:47pm
Hehe, yeah those look more like the framerates I get while RECORDING with fraps. Otherwise its 40+
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post #11 of 18
12/1/05 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by Smooth317
Let me get this straight. You're not RECORDING with Fraps while you're checking FPS are you? If there's one thing that will eat a machine's frame-rate alive, it is recording with Fraps. Most all games have some sort of console command to display FPS without having to use a third party program like fraps, which will eat up your resources.

If I am recording w/ fraps its not intentional. I don't think I am. Anyway, is there a console command on CoD2 to display FPS w/out using fraps?
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post #12 of 18
12/1/05 at 5:41pm
cg_drawFPS 1
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post #13 of 18
12/1/05 at 6:02pm
Well I know SOF2 is an odler game but playing with 32 other players on a 40 person server and low pings (<55) I get a FR of 85 to 90 Thats playing with a WUXGA at full res 1920x1200 and HIGH settings. and card running at 368core / 766mem.
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post #14 of 18
12/1/05 at 6:03pm
Yeah going back to old games on new computers and tearing it up because you can actually play with good FPS now is fun, haha.
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post #15 of 18
12/1/05 at 6:09pm
LOL well of course SOF2 is really nice aswell simply because there are still so many people playing online.
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post #16 of 18
12/2/05 at 1:25am
Pfft.. to whomever the spineless tick was who granted me the negitive reps for this....
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post #17 of 18
12/2/05 at 1:30am
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Originally Posted by Adrenolin
Pfft.. to whomever the spineless tick was who granted me the negitive reps for this....
+1
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post #18 of 18
12/2/05 at 1:46am
LOL thanks
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