I have a SiS 962L mothercard, and have have checked SiS's homepage, but I cant find a driver update for it....Suggestions?

Maybe this wasnt a big suprise, but my AGP-port is set to 4X. I can see this in the nVidia control centre.... I have been in the Bios and tried to find out where to change from 4X to 8X, but i cant find it. Is it a guide or something that i can read to find it? Do you guys think that this is the solution? Sorry i'm not that much into this...

Last edited by audimasta, Sun 22 Jan 2006, 21:17.

Quote from bbman :

Maybe AGP Aperture Size is set to the old card or the AGP-Port is set to 4x instead of 8x...

Hmm..Maybe? Is there anyway i can check this? Or change it?

Quote from B2B@300 :

Yep that does seem abit odd that your not seeing ANY increase in performance then you still didn't mention OS (is it WinXP? cause it is memory and cpu hungry)
Things that come to mind to try or invetigate
1. Is the memory you have both the same rating? (if one is slower than the other you might be better off without the slower one)
2. Check in your bios setup for AGP settings and see if they are correctly configured.
3. How many other programs are running when you use LFS? Try closing down as many as you can through the task manager.
4. Check you computer for trojens, viruses, spyware, adware, etc...
5. Play with some settings in LFS try:
under Graphics -
Disable rubber - all
Disable flags - all
Disable trees - all
Simple wheels - mirror or all
Shadow type - low res or off
Enable dither - no
Half texture - no
Mip filter - no
HVS - on
Z-Buff - 16 or 24
Simple track - off
Haze effect - Yes or No
under Misc -
Multiplayer Speedup - yes
Multiplayer car Draw - 150m or less
6. If you change all the settings for your video card to get best performance is there any increase in fps over settings from max quality?

Thats about all I can think of at the moment... and its 1am so bed time

Hope you get some improvement, I wouldn't have thought the poor performance was just due to the Celeron

"You still didn't mention OS (is it WinXP? cause it is memory and cpu hungry)"

Yep its XP.

"1. Is the memory you have both the same rating? (if one is slower than the other you might be better off without the slower one)"

I tried to take out the slower one (256MB) but then my comp. wouldnt start up....So i had to put it back in again.

"2. Check in your bios setup for AGP settings and see if they are correctly configured."

I've been into the BIOS, but i couldnt find anything related to AGP settings....Maybe this could have been easier through MSN?

"3. How many other programs are running when you use LFS? Try closing down as many as you can through the task manager."

I have closed all the programs i know i can shut down, but still quite a lot programs are running. But they don't use much comp. power.

"4. Check you computer for trojens, viruses, spyware, adware, etc..."

I'm doing that all the time....Norton Internet Security and AD-Aware is used regulary.

"5. Play with some settings in LFS try:
under Graphics -
Disable rubber - all
Disable flags - all
Disable trees - all
Simple wheels - mirror or all
Shadow type - low res or off
Enable dither - no
Half texture - no
Mip filter - no
HVS - on
Z-Buff - 16 or 24
Simple track - off
Haze effect - Yes or No
under Misc -
Multiplayer Speedup - yes
Multiplayer car Draw - 150m or less
"

This made my gain aprox 2 fps average with no cars on screen.

"6. If you change all the settings for your video card to get best performance" is there any increase in fps over settings from max quality?

Nope.

But because i got a better result on the 3D mark test than my old card, it feels like its LFS that can'd detect my card or somthing. Or is it just my stupid Celeron that just can't do it? Bah.... Hate this. But thx for the help

Quote from B2B@300 :

You mentioned you had the following:
Celeron 2.8GHz
768MB
Old card ATi 9250 256MB 40fps (single car) 10-25fps (with other cars)
New card Nvidia 6600GT 256M

You haven't mentioned what bus your cards use PCI, AGP or PCI-E? and what are the fps you get now? What is the operating system you have installed? Did you change any settings in LFS in regards to graphics?

Some other questions that come to my mind regarding performance on your setup... does your motherboard support dual channel memory configs? as im guessing you must have 3x 256M or 1x 512 and 1x 256?

Ok. Sorry that I was a bit short on information

Bot of my cards are AGP cards, and as i said i'm getting the same FPS now as I did with my old card (40 single car, 10-25 more cars). I did not change any graphic settings:

Res: 1152*864 (32 bit)
Half Texture sice: Yes
HVS: On
Simple Car: Off
Haze effect: Yes

I don't know if my motherboard support dual channel memory configs, but i'm using 1*256RAM and 1*512RAM.

Really appriciate the help

Hi

Something's wrong here.....I've installed my new card, and everything seems ok.... But i'm not having ANY increase in FPS in LFS compared to my old card! I did a test on 3D Mark 2001, and there it worked a lot better than my old card. But not in LFS... Its still the Gainward 6600GT 256MB. Any suggestions?

Quote from mrodgers :

I'm not an expert, audimasta, but I'd have to disagree with bbman. But I may be wrong, like I said, I'm not an expert. Since I have a P4, but only 2.5 GHz and you have a 2.8, but only a Celeron, I think we would probably be similar, maybe me taking a slight edge because of it being a P4. I've also heard Celerons are NOT good for gaming whatsoever. Upgrading your card, may allow you more AA/AF or higher resolution, ie, making it look prettier, but I'd say performance wise, your processor is the bottleneck as it is also in my machine. If I can't get any performance increase going from max AA/AF, max resolution (monitor hampered 1024x768x32) and max graphics settings in LFS, to minimum graphics and even dropping to 800x600x16, then you'd probably be the same. You could get it looking prettier than you have now, but you wouldn't gain FPS. I'm currently running a Diamond Radeon 9250 256 mb, but it is PCI (no AGP on the MB) and my bottleneck is still in the processor. But like I said first, I'm not an expert, especially with gfx cards, as this is the first one I've ever had that wasn't onboard and I just got it a few months ago.

K, thx for the info. I'll let you know how it all turns out tomorrow

Quote from bbman :

I'd say about 80 without any car in sight and about 40 with many cars...

Thx. I'd be happy with that. I know two guys though, that has the same card...Their doing 90-110 fps all the time and around 60 in the starts. But they have Pentium 4 processors...

Hi guys... I bought a Gainward GeForce 6600GT 256MB online yesterday, and i'll be getting it tomorrow....I'm just a little worried about my processor... Its a Celeron 2.8 GHZ, and I have heard that Celerons are some of the worst gaming processors

How much Increasy in FPS do you think i'll have from my old Sapphire Radeon 9250 256 mb....? WIth no cars on screen i did around 40 fps, with cars on screen i had between 10 - 25....

768RAM

Thx Spurs!! Great Job

Hi Guy's.

I need a new background for my desktop... Can one of you guys render my Team Skin?

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the FZ5 in rallycross is really good

Ok...Have to try it out then. It just sounded like a harch combination

Quote from Fetzo :

on rallycross tracks: fz50

Just as crazy as Mr. Schanke himself (pointing at your avatar)

Oh i like most of em'... FOX and FZR are my favourites though. But racing the LX4, XFR or the FO8 (FO8 at the oval) isnt bad either

Here's mine....Not very exciting, but i kind of love the pic.

GT4 has this

Its a little lag on downshifting as axus said though...But on Upshifts, the driver moves his hand down on the shifter at high revs. Looks nice

Quote from deggis :

I've never got convinced a single fan boy that Forza/GT4 is just a semi-sim/arcade.

Well, you have an ex GT4 fanboy right here, and he's turned over to the light side :lfs:

Thx for the vid! That thing sounded like a plane..... Me likes

Ok, thx... Did u get any idea of how it sounded? I have heard F1 racing boats with diesel engines, and that was really something. Just hoping the R10 will spit out some beatiful tones too.

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Looking forward to watch the R10 in action.... Was it the official launch video u saw? If u have a link to it, posting would be appriciated

Works nice here

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Quote from Lible :

Ehm, why is it Whisper? Just personal message.

But i would like if you could send him a message by clicking on his/her name(Connections list)

It was kalled "Whisper" in Diablo so i just called it that...Private message/chat will though work better here. And as u say, choosing the players name from the connection list and then chat, would have been a good way of doing this.

Hi folks...

Don't know if this have been up before, but i searched and didn't find anything

What i think would be a nice thing to add to the game, is a "Whisper" function.
Lets say u want to say something to one person only on the server (strategy etc..), and u don't want the others to see what u are saying to him. I remember this function when i played Diablo 2 a time ago, and it worked really nice. What u had to do, was to write /whisper *username or something, and then only the user with the username could see your message.

This way u could talk to your teammate only about strategies, setups, the weather or whatever, without letting anyone other see it.