If You Have Low FPS

[Dheepan]

NOTE: This works only for those with Hyperthreading or Dualcore processors.This fix more than doubled my fps, I play now with anywhere from 45 to 60ish Fps with a Radeon9200 at 1280x960. Click here to check it. So if you have a hyperthreading or dualcore processor I would really do this, helps the fps tremendously, with no drawbacks.

Also run low quality sound, and no shadows. Don't really see them as important. Hope this helps you guys with low fps.

 

[Grobut]

I had a go at it just for giggles, didn't change my FPS at all, they stayed at a solid 80 FPS both with and without the secondary CPU.

 

[Dheepan]

Steam needs to be using 50% of your CPU for it to work, otherwise it shouldn't affect it.

 

[Murphy]

Speaking of the task manager: Of what use is the priority setting? Does it really higher the priority of a certain process thus making it run faster? And why does it state that it could be dangerous under certain circumstances if you set the priority of a process manually?

 

[Llama]

That's impressive! I wish i had such a CPU but i'm running an athlon XP2000. I typically get around 20-25fps at 1024x768 with my Radeon 9600pro so I presume my processor is slowing things down. Anyway, this could be usefull to quite a lot of people! If others find it works well it might be an idea to get it into the tweak guide by Amerikaner.

 

[K.Johansen]

If You Have Low FPS

Buy a new computer :]

 

[Stierlitz]

Affinity never helped my 2.0 core duo
p.s
2kjohansen - ur futbol team is nub

 

[Dheepan]

Give me a $1,500 and I will :O. And there enlies the problem.
Stierlitz, is steam using 50% of your CPu?

EDIT: germany ftw.

 

[Gunrun247]

This always confuses me, does AMD's hypertransport act the same as Intels Hyperthreading?

 

[Shadowman]

This always confuses me, does AMD's hypertransport act the same as Intels Hyperthreading?

No. Hyperthreading is designed to create 2 logical processors (sort of -- it just makes your computer *think* it has two processors) It's more like multiple threads being able to run _almost_ concurrently.

Hypertransport works externally from the processor, I beleive. It is a means of different components on the same motherboard communicating with one another.

 

[Byte Me]

Murphy
Speaking of the task manager: Of what use is the priority setting? Does it really higher the priority of a certain process thus making it run faster? And why does it state that it could be dangerous under certain circumstances if you set the priority of a process manually?

I always start steam on BelowNormal priority, gave me a good 10-15 fps boost in DoD:S (don't know how much, if any, better fps you will get in RO). Go to the start menu and open up Run, copy and paste this into it:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE /c start "Steam" /belownormal "C:\Program Files (or whatever your file path to steam is)\Steam\Steam.exe"

Note: you must use Run with this command everytime you start up steam in order for this to work. I think you can just start it normally and then use task manager to change it, don't think there is much, if any, difference.