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[B. Farr]

I just got the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

550MHz Core Clock

1400MHZ Processor Clock

16 Processor Cores

800MHZ Memory Data Rate, effective

1024MB DDR Memory

128-bit Memory interface

12.8 GB/sec Memory Bandwidth

4.4 Billion/sec Texture Fill Rate

how can I improve the FPS during game play?

System Info:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Manufacturer INTEL_

System Model D915GEV_

System Type X86-based PC

Processor Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. EV91510A.86A.0470.2005.0914.1828, 9/14/2005

SMBIOS Version 2.3

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.25 GB

Total Physical Memory 2.87 GB

Available Physical Memory 1.82 GB

Total Virtual Memory 5.75 GB

Available Virtual Memory 4.55 GB

Page File Space 2.87 GB

[Dillon 1st MRB]

A 9400GT is a tough card to really get a high amount of fps. What are you hitting right now? 60 is the best target you can hit. I would definately turn *OFF* HDR. Lower your textures, shadows, models, and everything else to medium. This actually will make the map brighter for you and easier to play.

I would also look at getting a new nvidia driver. You can find it at: Nvidia's Driver Page Make sure you get the right version of the driver. There is an enormous difference between 32-bit and 64-bit.

Your 3.25 GB of ram make me thing you have 4 GB of available ram, but you are either using Windows 7 32-bit (instead of 64-bit) OR you have an out of date BIOS. In looking at your BIOS info, it is from 2005. IF (AND ONLY IF) you have Windows 7 64-bit installed, you should update the BIOS. This will give you .75 GB of more RAM, bringing your available physical RAM up to ~3.62 GB (always good with Windows Vista/7 for prefetching).

After that, we can look at adjusting your cvars in your config. Its been a while, but Janke may have some good input on this. I can send you a sample user config for you and we can go from there.

[Jasko]

It's a 32-bit operating system for sure. You could but windows into performance mode to ease your graphics card.

[B. Farr]

LOL, Thanks for the info, yeah I forgot to add its a 32 bit. Your recomendations verified what I thought I could do, the drivers are UTD, first thing I did after installing. And yes I'm only looking a a target of 60 fps.

Anything else would be helpful.