Frame rate swings

[jddesigned]

Hey all not sure if this is the right area. Anyways I recently upgraded to a larger monitor and am running at 1280 x 960 for games. I've noticed a considerable swing in frame rates and wonder if it's the game engine or possble hardware configuration. Anyways I play a lot of RavenShield and I notice since uping the resolution I get considerable frame rate hits in bright lighting/out door situations. While it does not hinder game play I'm just more curious Why I would go rom say 200 frames in dark settings to as low as 30 in brightly lit areas.

Anyways quick hardware info:
3700+ San Diego
Asus A8V MB
BFG 6800GT OC - Mild overclock

I have my vid drivers set for performance and have AA @ 2x and AF @ 4x. Fast Writes are off.

Like I say I'm not gonna lose sleep over this but was wondering anyones thoughts on the subject.

 

[GabooN]

Hey all not sure if this is the right area. Anyways I recently upgraded to a larger monitor and am running at 1280 x 960 for games. I've noticed a considerable swing in frame rates and wonder if it's the game engine or possble hardware configuration. Anyways I play a lot of RavenShield and I notice since uping the resolution I get considerable frame rate hits in bright lighting/out door situations. While it does not hinder game play I'm just more curious Why I would go rom say 200 frames in dark settings to as low as 30 in brightly lit areas.

Anyways quick hardware info:
3700+ San Diego
Asus A8V MB
BFG 6800GT OC - Mild overclock

I have my vid drivers set for performance and have AA @ 2x and AF @ 4x. Fast Writes are off.

Like I say I'm not gonna lose sleep over this but was wondering anyones thoughts on the subject.

Raven Shield uses a heavily modified Unreal engine, I believe it was Unreal Warfare engine. Unreal is CPU hungry engine but Raven Shields wants both, but your system should be fine. Anyway if you have shadows enabled and smoke/frag explosions set to high this will really lag the game. Even with my BFG 6800 Ultra OC I still saw a performance drop so I disabled frag/smoke or set it to low, btw ur cpu was faster then mine. Some maps will just lag with raven shield especially user created ones. Also when I used to play Raven Shield AA didn’t work maybe try disabling it see if that improves performance.