ok so I finally got my gaming rig back up and going with a few upgrades
before I posted a thread where it seemed like my sons rig played smoother in UT3 even though he only had a single core 3500+ and a 7600gt with 1GB mem, where I had a x2 4400+, a 4850 and 2gb mem.
the main thing I noticed is my framerates would plummet down in to the 20s when I loaded up sanctuary went across the bridge to the jump platform and turned to face the main structure. and through the game I was getting peaks of 100+ FPS but still had those reallly really low points too
I tried all the tweaks people said, enabling frame rate smoothing, enableing v-sync and etc, and no luck at all
Well I upgraded to a e8400 (@ 3.6GHz), 3gb mem
With these upgrades I never fall below 55 fps as far as I can see (no AA or AF yet) and I get tremendous spikes in FPS now (270+). I am playing on a large 37" LCD @ 1360x768 60Hz all settings in game maxed out. If I enable Vsync to cap out at 60 the frame rate stays at a steady 55-60fps and I get no stuttering to the video or etc now, none it plays incredibly smooth.
I have tried different AA settings and etc and it seems like if I have more than 10fps difference in the game say I fall below 50fps at my minimum the stuttering and jerkyness comes back.
Just figured I would pass along what I have seen so far
before I posted a thread where it seemed like my sons rig played smoother in UT3 even though he only had a single core 3500+ and a 7600gt with 1GB mem, where I had a x2 4400+, a 4850 and 2gb mem.
the main thing I noticed is my framerates would plummet down in to the 20s when I loaded up sanctuary went across the bridge to the jump platform and turned to face the main structure. and through the game I was getting peaks of 100+ FPS but still had those reallly really low points too
I tried all the tweaks people said, enabling frame rate smoothing, enableing v-sync and etc, and no luck at all
Well I upgraded to a e8400 (@ 3.6GHz), 3gb mem
With these upgrades I never fall below 55 fps as far as I can see (no AA or AF yet) and I get tremendous spikes in FPS now (270+). I am playing on a large 37" LCD @ 1360x768 60Hz all settings in game maxed out. If I enable Vsync to cap out at 60 the frame rate stays at a steady 55-60fps and I get no stuttering to the video or etc now, none it plays incredibly smooth.
I have tried different AA settings and etc and it seems like if I have more than 10fps difference in the game say I fall below 50fps at my minimum the stuttering and jerkyness comes back.
Just figured I would pass along what I have seen so far