M17 and UT3 Question

hey guys,

as u can see in my sigmature i have an M17.
i have a question about performance with UT3.
i see in some posts people are talking about frame rates in the low hundreds when they play this game at max res and settings.. when i play it, i get nowhere close to that..

am i misunderstanding something? are they running a different program called UT3?

or is something wrong?

 

ask yourself, does it really matter? as long as the game runs at 40fps or more, you won't see any difference. did i mention your monitor can't actually show more than 60 frames per second anyway? so there's no point behind 100+ fps.

 

theoretically it does matter, to me.
i just want to know if somethings up.

do u by chance know how u bench whizzo?
i know u have an M15x but id thought id ask.

 

oh, i don't have UT3. if you want to run a benchmark, download 3dmark06 (the free trial version will do).

 

yah i did run 3DMark 06 and i got a score of around 10686 or something like that.
does that sound right with my specs?
i also have Ewrecked 8.12 installed.

 

with your CPU, that sounds about right, although i'm by no means an expert on the m17.

 

ut3 is capped at 62 fps when playing online.

 

Incorrect.
Ut3 is automatically capped at the v-sync of your monitor. Which happens to be 62fps. Disabling v-sync and amoothed frame rates removes the cap, on/offline.

Ut3 by default als has a minium framerate set of 20fps. Which is stupid, settng the minimum to 0 and max to 999 in the UTEngine.ini will fix that. CPU is quite important in UT3, that may be cutting you back a few FPS but not a huge amount.

Although most monitors won't display more than 60fps beacuse of their refresh rate. You can easily feel a differance between 60 and 100+ FPS. Especially in a game such as Unreal Tournament.

 

Did JBean get banned again?

For what?

 

ha thats funny.
i wonder why..

 

Hey, Sparrow, I ran a UT3 FRAPS benchmark for you. 1920x1200/MAX Graphics. Full retail version.

Min fps 62
Max fps 135
Avg fps 92

I edited the .ini for a minimum of 1fps and a max of 999fps. With your CPU you will be running at the cap almost all of the time.

 

thanks for the info, i just edited the ini and im going to try FRAPS benchmarking tool...

 

Totally. Post your results as soon as you can. Good luck.

 

ok i just ran campaign mode, here are my results:

min: 20 max: 63 avg: 39

this shouldnt be the case i dont think..
i think something is wrong, i have the 8.12 drivers too

edit(new test): i upgraded to to UT3 patch 1.3 and redid test

min: 24 max: 73 avg: 46.736

still not the best, what do yall think?

 

look ok to me @ 1680x1050 i got min -38 max -98
avg -71

 

have u over clocked at all> i noticed your 3dmark score is about 500 higher than mine too..

 

i told you, you know why he has 500 marks extra, same as why fusion has 500marks extra...

 

ha yeah, woops

 

I just read my Alienware PC Information document. It says the average framerate was 58 while playing UT3, thats 12 frames higher than I test!!!

 

Have you installed E-Wrecked's drivers? You can't expect too much; you got the low-end CPU.

As far as AW's benchmarks, mine were a bit blown out of proportion too, so don't feel too bad. What you're getting now is what matters.

 

yes I have Ewrecked's drivers installed.

 

I don`t know but if you ask me, I`d say for being himself

 

like others said sparrow, i think your CPU is bottle necking, meaning your graphics card is doing all the work it can, problem is that UT3 requires alot of physics, thats why theres a agesis physics card option to tick to allow the physics X processor to do it, instead your CPU is doing all the work hense the low FPS, and i think the processor is limiting your FPS

not any amd cpus work too well with it to, so if your getting 50fps then who cares?

 

no OC but dont forget your running at 1920x1200