How to get the most FPS out of a game?

[liamcrane]

Evening all,

How do you manage to get over 60+ fps with smooth gameplay? Most monitors these days are only have 60hz refresh rates dont they? and as soon as you start going over that or disabling vsync do you not get annoying tearing effects on your screen?

I have been playing GTA 4 on max settings with my PII CPU at 3.8ghz and a 5850 GPU and even when i vsync the game to match my monitor at 60fps i still get the odd drop to 30fps. I would love to not have to enable vsync cos i feel my setup is good and could handle much more. I see lots of people saying they get 70-80fps in games.

 

[liamcrane]

Yea your right GTA is in fact a terrible port!! Whats the best way to get 60+ FPS in general with out getting screen tearing? I have to use vsync with everygame i play, if i turn it off i then get arounf 70FPS but with the horrible tears

 

[liamcrane]

I was thinking of using d3d overider to allow me to use triple buffering as i cannot see an option in my CCC, i was hoping that this could give me smoother gameplay with vsync enabled. I red that triple buffering only supports direct x games. What is the difference between direct x and open GL games?