Correct performance for 5900U in HL2??

I have a GeforceFX 5900 Ultra, 1 gig pc3200 ram, Abit Nforce2 Ultra mobo in dual channel, and Athlon XP 3200+.

I know it only runs in DX8.1 for Half Life 2, but I seem to max around 50 FPS with 4x antialiasing and 4x anistropic filtering at 1024x768.

The problem stems from the fact that a friend has a slower computer with a Geforce4 ti4200 and gets higher FPS than me.

What is going on here?

Does your friend use 1024x768 and 4xAA and 4xAF?

read this article and use the command line to force dx 8 that should solve the problem

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281

OriginalReaper said:

Does your friend use 1024x768 and 4xAA and 4xAF?

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That's probably the difference, right there. He isn't using FSAA or Aniso.