I have a question regarding the requirements of a system for frame rate. I recently got Half Life 2 and checked the frame rate between two machines.
machine a)
HP
Graphic Card - ATI 1900XT PCI-Express
AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4400 - 2.2GHz
1GB RAM
Window XP Media Edition
Frame Rate: 74fps HL2 Episode One test
machine b)
Dell
Graphic Card - ATI 1900XT PCI-Express (same exact physical card)
AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4800 - 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Window XP Home Edition
Frame Rate: 125fps HL2 Episode One test
Now the only difference I see is the different AMD core (2.2GHz vs. 2.4GHz), but does it really make that much of a difference between the 2 systems or am I missing something else? I didn't do any tuning for the card via either the game itself or the card, maybe there is something in the game I can move, like lower some resolution or something, that my friend did to machine b (and isn't telling me), which I didn't do to machine a. Is there any ideas someone could share that may make sense, other than buying a new CPU, and finding out it gets the same results. If power load was the issue I'd assume it would just no even work.
- Waffles.... WHUT -
machine a)
HP
Graphic Card - ATI 1900XT PCI-Express
AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4400 - 2.2GHz
1GB RAM
Window XP Media Edition
Frame Rate: 74fps HL2 Episode One test
machine b)
Dell
Graphic Card - ATI 1900XT PCI-Express (same exact physical card)
AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4800 - 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Window XP Home Edition
Frame Rate: 125fps HL2 Episode One test
Now the only difference I see is the different AMD core (2.2GHz vs. 2.4GHz), but does it really make that much of a difference between the 2 systems or am I missing something else? I didn't do any tuning for the card via either the game itself or the card, maybe there is something in the game I can move, like lower some resolution or something, that my friend did to machine b (and isn't telling me), which I didn't do to machine a. Is there any ideas someone could share that may make sense, other than buying a new CPU, and finding out it gets the same results. If power load was the issue I'd assume it would just no even work.
- Waffles.... WHUT -