Fear in game test.

dmxdex2020 · 30 Mar 2009 at 02:32

I ran it without vsync on and when the barrel was about to blow it was on 180 fps then it shot right down to 20 to 30 this is not right, is a 180 fps good for my card without vsync on and on 1600x1200?

Margaret · 30 Mar 2009 at 03:20

FEAR was known for stuttering issues (If I recall correct) so that FPS hitch was probably just a stutter which took your FPS right down momentarily.

Then again if your FPS went down and stayed low for a while then I'm probably wrong.

arc@css · 30 Mar 2009 at 12:06

Very much driver dependent. I bought my 4870 512 when we had the 8.10 or 8.11 and it ran Fear1 smooth as silk. Much smoother than previous card, the 8800gtx. Have used the 9+ series drivers with my X2 and seem to recall it was good performance but not as good. Whether its the change of 1gpu to using 2 I do not know.

uv · 30 Mar 2009 at 12:11

Do you have logitech setpoint drivers installed for a logitech mouse/keyboard?

arc@css · 30 Mar 2009 at 12:26

^^Just occured to me that I haven't got the above drivers installed.

dmxdex2020 · 30 Mar 2009 at 13:13

I have a crappy 10 pound logitech keyboard do i need them drivers?

uv · 30 Mar 2009 at 13:26

nope, you don't need them.

I only asked as the setpoint drivers were known to create slowdowns in the original FEAR game.

dmxdex2020 · 30 Mar 2009 at 13:39

Ok not sure why it runs poor in the test on fear then probs a driver issues.

mattyj1085 · 30 Mar 2009 at 21:21

what settings are you using? fsaa, af etc?

dmxdex2020 · 30 Mar 2009 at 22:05

maxed out mate on 1600x1200 4 aa 16 af, my card should not even break a sweat on this game.

The max fps without v sync is 600 is just drops to 30 when theb barrel explodes its strange.

marscay · 30 Mar 2009 at 23:10

i remember that test, it's normal for very low fps on that barrel explosion ...i wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

manjuice · 30 Mar 2009 at 23:37

My 8800GT eats FEAR for breakfast.

Barrel explosion lowest was 53 fps. 1680x1050
Min FPS 53
Avg. FPS 85
Max FPS 189

mame · 30 Mar 2009 at 23:41

When i first started overclocking, the FEAR benchmark was one that I used. I went from an athlon 64 3000 1.8ghz to 2.2ghz then an athlon 4000 2.4 to 3.0ghz then an athlon x2 2.0ghz to 2.6ghz and it never made any difference to FEAR benchmark. On my current setup of E8500 4GHz 8gig RAM and 4850 512mb at 1680x1050 my max FPS is about 140 (i think, not got it installed just now) but my lowest IE the explosion was about 35-40. Even so, I can play the game start to finish with v-sync on and get 60fps full stop.

Hudzy · 31 Mar 2009 at 08:07

I wouldn't worry too much really. Not that many exploding barrels in game that I remember.

dmxdex2020 · 31 Mar 2009 at 12:14

It worrys me because im just paranoid my card is faulty because i get low fps in other games in certain places like cod 5 waw but bit tech review show the lowest fps they got on 4870 x2 was 20.

psychas · 31 Mar 2009 at 13:18

well just ran the test with everything maxed out , physics and effects on max to. 4 aa , 16 af @ 1680x1050

Min: 58 fps
Average: 124 fps
Maximum: 267 fps

id dips to 58 fps in the room with the exploding barrels elsewhere evrytime over 120~ 200 and above.

note i was using 4870 @ stock speeds.

try using latest patch on it i think its 1.8 or 1.08 .

arc@css · 31 Mar 2009 at 14:11

If I get time I may reinstall Fear1 and run the test. Can't really remember what I got with my current ati cards. I think the max I got was around 300 ish.

mattyj1085 · 1 Apr 2009 at 11:44

Just installed and ran test - (X2 3800+, 2gb, 8800GT in 1440x900 res, max settings)

Min - 47
Average - 100
Max - 256

In short my PC is better than yours

edit - with 1.08 patch

min - 49
ave - 102
max - 270