Refresh thing again

[Scooba Da Bass]

Gnnnng, I'd like to start by saying I REALLY hate computers.

Ok, after following the advice in the other thread and managing to get my fps back to decent levels I'm having the problem again and NOTHING I do seems to fix it. I'm running a Gf3 Ti500, Windows 2K SP3, and the 29.42 which Windows update thoughtfully decided to burden me with.

Starting up a game of Q2 (no settings have been changed in Q2) and doing a timerefresh gives me a fps count of 60 fps after the drivers have been reinstalled. When this is the case the screen is centered nicely and is full size. Now if I run either of the other fixes I end up with a fps count of 75 and a screen that is set smaller than usual and noticibly to the right.

What is irritating about this is that I used to get about 450/500 fps from a timerefresh in game, I know I'm not gonna be getting all those frames but it was a million times smoother.

So, what am I doing wrong? What is the easy step by step solution to fix this?

 

[Embattle]

Did this happen before you applied SP3?

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Nope :/

I'm guessing that vsync is the problem here, since I'm getting 75 fps which is my monitor's vertical sync rate, I just can't seem to be able to turn it off. I have disabled it in the opengl panel under the advanced settings bit for the Nvidia drivers but I'm guessing something is overriding it?

Edit; One of those 'refresh fix' things, has a test mode in, running it in the same resolution as Q2 without Vsync gives 1094 FPS, with Vsync gives 75.023 fps which is roughly what I get in Q2.

 

[Embattle]

Strange mix of conflicts, my own nVidia drivers(30.00) aren't supported in those tools either meaning 60 fps is default.

The basic idea behind most of those utilities is to delete all the reg entries for refresh rates other than the one selected making windows think that's all you monitor supports.

It's a slightly puzzling mix.

 

[throdgrain]

Powerstrip will force your refresh rate to anything you want, thus you can leave your vsynch on but still get 85 fps or whatever you want. I know its a bit old but it does work.Give it a try !

 

[Embattle]

All of them work that way but in this case it doesn't seem to be working since SP3 has most probably changed something, although worth giving it a try.

 

[throdgrain]

The timerefresh thingy works independently of vsynch in q2, I remember i used to get mad fps doing it on my old pc when I played q2, but it made no difference as all BW servers are limited to 85fps anyway, or they were...