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Bout time you showed up....

Just glad to see you back, happy to help!

Installing an airco in your computer will hopefully  cool down yer temper when needed T 


Welcome back m8ey... now stop throwing those controllers, you might hurt somebody!
Hope to race you soon!
 

Woof ~ Woof

I am looking into your hardware to try n figure out why the frames are so low on your PC in rFactor m8.


First. P4 CPU.  even though it is a big P4 it still, from what I can tell, is a single core and a bit outdated. Correct me if I am wrong here, but I had a P4 3.0 GHZ 1,5 years ago before I switched to 2.6 GHZ E6750 Core 2 Duo.
Now, rFactor should still work quite good with this, but have a full grid with high settings still aint going to do well.

Memory is fast enough and the amount should be sufficiant. Unless you are running Vista, wich is shit on memory and uses to much even to run normal.

GFX. the ATI x1900. I dunno if it is 256 or 500MB, but still, it is and semi old card. My last card was a x1950 pro 256 in combo with the P4 3.00GHZ CPU and even though I ran rFactor on maxed out settings, I had to really turn things down depending on the mod and how many cars.


I still have to say that I find your extreme low frames a bit puzzling. But I dunno what settings you had on.

The most important things is to maybe set down oponent cars settings. And have fewer visible cars. Turn off mirrors, atleast on starts.

Lemme know how things work and where you are taking the worst impact.

About the F3 race. The mod is NOT that hard on the PC and the 1988 tracks by.Carrera4 is some of the better tracks comes framewise.

Finally got some decent drivers and seems for the most part a tad better, and the X1900 is a 512mb ddr3 card . And yes they arent "new" by any means but it is a 3.4HT , the mobo is a gigabyte G4 with 1100 FSB, 16X pci, not running vista. And rf isnt a taxing game by todays standards, and i was getting these types of FPS's with the older pc, and i'm not looking for 150 fps's, but 15 aint gonna cut it. I should be able to run full on most in game settings and get atleast 60 fps all the time. Either way thanks for ya help guys and i'll keep tweaking.

Finally got some decent drivers and seems for the most part a tad better, and the X1900 is a 512mb ddr3 card . And yes they arent "new" by any means but it is a 3.4HT , the mobo is a gigabyte G4 with 1100 FSB, 16X pci, not running vista. And rf isnt a taxing game by todays standards, and i was getting these types of FPS's with the older pc, and i'm not looking for 150 fps's, but 15 aint gonna cut it. I should be able to run full on most in game settings and get atleast 60 fps all the time. Either way thanks for ya help guys and i'll keep tweaking.

just to let you know. the pentium 3.4HT is  basically a dual core, you can check for sure by pressing alt-ctrl and delete to bring up the taskmanager then right clicking on anything in the processes box and then clicking set affinity, this will tell you how many cores are working on any particular process.

also, for ultimate tweaking, go to knowfree.net and look for a free e-book called "the big book of windows hacks"

i used this on my old system and boy,did it make a difference.

the only holdback i see with your rig is the gfx card, but as long as it's a pci-e it should be reasonable.

also,what antivirus software are you running?

cos some ie norton are severe resource hoggs and dramatically slow down a system when it comes to gaming.

i'll see if i can remember what else i did to my old system and let you know.

Dave