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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208530 is a reply to message #208394] Mon, 17 July 2006 10:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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V-sync? A bad refresh rate in a bad monitor can definitely have an impact on your frame rate. V-sync can halve your FPS if you're unlucky. Usually it isn't that bad, but theoretically, it's something in between 0.5 and 1 times the frame rate you get without v-sync. And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off. (unless you force it off somehow..(DX9 mode thingy/vid card settings))

25 ms response time means a refresh rate of 40. A CRT has at least 60, maybe even 75 or 85 or even more.


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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208534 is a reply to message #208394] Mon, 17 July 2006 10:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Wouldn't that just mean that the picture would appear "choppy"?

If it's his "FPS", as the game is showing, being low, that would be CPU hardware. The computer isn't "smart" enough to take into consideration the quality of the monitor in calculating the frames per second that it would show. The monitor affecting anything would simply be extra to the game itself. (ie. Showing 200 fps [exageration], but only putting out 1 fps due to the monitor. The FPS bar would show 200, despite the output on the monitor being 1 FPS)
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208537 is a reply to message #208394] Mon, 17 July 2006 11:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It's really not that hard to disable Vsync. And even on the first LCD I had (which was old and kinda cheap, with a response time of 20+ ms I think) I was able to get refresh rates of 75 Hz, just with some ghosting.
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208545 is a reply to message #208530] Mon, 17 July 2006 12:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:27


25 ms response time means a refresh rate of 40.

That's not how it works. 25 ms response is the time needed by a pixel to change it's colour from white to black if i am not misstaken. It doesn't keep your screen from telling that pixel to change it's colour more often anyway though. You can have a refrsh rate of 70 frames per second AND a response time of 25 miliseconds at the same time. That's exactly why you get ghosting in the first place.

In normal apps like word for instance that pixel won't need to change it's colour that much because it is pretty much a still picture and 25 ms is just fine. In games on the other hand it will need to change it's coulour much more often because you are constantly changing your view of the world around you.

Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208637 is a reply to message #208394] Tue, 18 July 2006 07:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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25 ms response is the time needed by a pixel to change it's colour from white to black if i am not misstaken. It doesn't keep your screen from telling that pixel to change it's colour more often anyway though. You can have a refrsh rate of 70 frames per second AND a response time of 25 miliseconds at the same time. That's exactly why you get ghosting in the first place.

You are mistaken. Wink

At least that it's from black to white and to black again. Checked that from wikipedia.

V-sync makes the program (Renegade, here) actually wait for a CRT to be ready to refresh the image. That means you simply can't have more FPS than your refresh rate is with V-sync on.

Now, do you know for a fact that Renegade knows how to deal with LCDs differently from CRTs?

I could be wrong, as I have never owned any LCDs. Just trying to contribute to the convo. Smile


Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208722 is a reply to message #208530] Tue, 18 July 2006 18:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:27

And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off.

Try using windowed mode..


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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208886 is a reply to message #208722] Wed, 19 July 2006 14:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:27

And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off.


And RenD3D9 disabled V-sync in full screen too.
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208925 is a reply to message #208886] Wed, 19 July 2006 18:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Xylaquin wrote on Wed, 19 July 2006 16:55

RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:27

And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off.


And RenD3D9 disabled V-sync in full screen too.

Be warned though; I've had trouble with RenD3D9 causing Renegade to stop responding after the third map has loaded. I've talked to the author (Scorpio9a) about this, but the problem has yet to be resolved. If you also experience this problem (or any other problems), please let him know. And in case you didn't catch the URL for RenD3D9, it's here: http://www.understorm.net/rend3d9


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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208928 is a reply to message #208394] Wed, 19 July 2006 19:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Meh, the only problem I personally have with my (somewhat) new BenQ FP91G+ (19" standard) is that one of the pixels of the grid is unable to display #000000 correctly (turns red rather than black), and I can barely notice it anymore.

I wouldn't pick any LCD over a CRT, but I'd get any from the list made by the guys at Anandtech (see forums) over any of the currently available CRT displays. The image my two liquid crystal displays (laptop and desktop) provide me is, in my opinion, much better than the one the CRT displays in my house will provide.

I can't wait for OLED monitors.

As for RenD3D9, I've personally had no problems with it.


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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208970 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 05:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The only problem I have with RenD3D9 is that it crashes if I try to restore it from the taskbar, so alt tabbing (or any other key combinations) are not possible unless you want to reload renegade... which might not seem much of a problem, but I alt-tab all the time to check MSN / Xfire etc, and it forced me to remove RenD3D9....

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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208982 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 07:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Did you get an error message that pointed to the cause? Are we supposed to register the dll with windows or just drop and go?

Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208984 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 07:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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no error, renegade just closes as soon as you try to restore it from the toolbar.

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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208994 is a reply to message #208530] Thu, 20 July 2006 08:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ralphzehunter wrote on Wed, 19 July 2006 04:03

RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:27

And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off.
Try using windowed mode..


Xylaquin wrote on Thu, 20 July 2006 00:55

RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:27

And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off.
And RenD3D9 disabled V-sync in full screen too.


FFS stop misquoting me!
RTsa wrote on Mon, 17 July 2006 20:27

And in Renegade, v-sync can't be turned off. (unless you force it off somehow..(DX9 mode thingy/vid card settings))


Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #208997 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 09:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I don't see how playing in windowed mode is forcing it in any way. Satisfied

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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209007 is a reply to message #208994] Thu, 20 July 2006 12:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Heh sorry RTsa, but just to nag a bit more here's a 3rd way...
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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209013 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 14:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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75Hz = 75FPS



WRONG!!! one Hz is ONE pass on the screen, one frame is 2.

FPS will NEVER rise above half of the Hz although it can go lower
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209014 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 14:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If that is true, then now come my FPS on some games is around 50-60 when my refresh rate is only 85Hz?

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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209015 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 14:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Refresh rate 75hz, FPS on renegade 68-75..... up to about 140 with the directx9 tool, almost double my refresh rate

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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209020 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 14:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Does it actually matter that you can force it to turn v-sync off (fiddling in registry or being obliged to play in windowed mode is forcing for the overall renegade player)?

You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209022 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 14:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Whatever the number of hertz your refresh rate is set to, that is the maximum number of frames per second you can get with Vsync enabled.

Secondly, it really isn't that hard to disable Vsync, as seen in this screenshot:
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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209028 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 17:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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May I suggest this ATI driver utility as an alternative to that bloat-ware from ATI?
NGO ATI Optimized Driver v1.6.6
This is coming from someone completely biased against ATI's drivers.
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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209033 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 18:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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FPS has absolutly nothing to do with the screen refresh rate. the game is at 50 fps, yes. but your grafix card changes that. i play msfs 2005 and that has appenrently a fps of over 100 (if your cpu can handle it). but my monitor has a refresh rate of 60Hz
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209035 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 18:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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wish i had a cpu like that... but i think most of your probloms come from your porn or something. i run Renegade at 1280x1024 on my DELL LCD and i get 75fps unless there is like 100 things blowing up at once then it will drop to like 60fps but you screen cant hinder your fps, it may not pick them up but that is about it

my system is..

OS: WinXP Professional 5.1 SP2 (Build #2600) CPU: AMD Sempron 3300+, 2.22 GHz, 128KB Video: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (1280x1024x32bpp 75Hz) Sound: SB Live! Audio [C000] Memory: 512MB Hard drives: 3 Free: 76.14 GB/149.06 GB Connection: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 - Packet Scheduler Miniport @ 100.0 Mbps

and i cant use the rend3d thing
http://renegade-help.com/upload/users/paradox/untitled.jpg

i sugest you format your hardrive and get a non-OEM os as they come with alot of spywere as it is :V

And stay away from the porn!


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Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209047 is a reply to message #209035] Thu, 20 July 2006 22:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yeah paradox, now try turning Anti Aliasing on. Wink Looking at your screen you don't got any. Smile
Re: The KOSs2 knows its shit [message #209048 is a reply to message #208394] Thu, 20 July 2006 22:26 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Bad ghosting tends to make games look laggy when they actually aren't. Get an LCD monitor with at least 8ms response time and you should barely be able to tell the difference between that and a CRT...

...unless you have eyes like mine, where tearing (when vsync is off) drives you insane and you can see flickering even on 85hz.
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