GeFORCE4 FPS

[csplayer932]

SUp, I have a Geforce4 MX420 Pci PNY. I get a low fps like 40-50 when playing counter-strike. I have the tool to adjust my setting too. I have tried to tweak it, but i still get low fps. My old voodoo card got more fps than this one. What should i do? what are the best settings?

thx

[F**k You]

Um dude you got an MX. The suck. really the only relavience GF4 MX has to the GF4 line is the name. Nothing else. Hell a GF3 Ti500 can kick an MX's ass n e day.

My suggestion.......Buy a GF4 Ti 4200, pretty cheap card but really kicks some ass.

[Wiggo]

csplayer932 I have the GF4 MX440 and it pulls well over 100fps so maybe there is something wrong in the setup for you. :?:
Give us the details of ya system and software. :smokin:

F**k You not all of us can afford them plus have ya seen a PCI version of them? ;)
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[zeradul]

The most limiting factor you have is that it is a PCI card.

Even the AGP version of that card is only equal to a fairly good Geforce 2.

I don't know why you are getting such low FPS in Counterstrike though. CS is based on half life, and neither of them require a Glide enabled card! So it can be played decently with the oldest of PCI cards. Heck, I get 85 FPS in 800 X 600 in Counterstrike on My PII 233, with a 16 meg PCI TNT !

I have an idea. Go into CS, Video Options, and make sure that you DO NOT have 'software' mode enabled. Anything else is better. Select OpenGL. That should do it I bet.

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For todays use, The GF4 MX is just a good card for people who aren't going to be doing any gaming, and that is the reason it was even made in the first place.

[csplayer932]

i have a P2 400mhz...256mb ram. My setting for the geforce card are FOR opengl

anti aliasing - 2 samples
textures -1
color 16bits
filtering mode: bilinear or tri
v-sync default off
buffer flipping: block transfer
frames rendered ahead: 16
micellaneous: buffer region extension ticked
buffer regoin use video memory ticked
geforce accelerated lines ticked...

cs is on opengl mode. default .

i have directx 8.1....i heard this can f*** your fps up too

[Ehhe Yebeb]

Even the AGP version of that card is only equal to a fairly good Geforce 2.

Its not equal to a good GeForce 2 the Geforce 4 MX420 slightly outperforms the GeForce 2 Ultra whilst the MX440 outperforms all the GeForce 2's easily . Also you have an MX420, which is the cheaper ram/lower clocked version, and the most important thing is your card is PCI. PCI cards perform dramatically less than AGP cards of the same name. I think a GeForce 4 MX420 PCI would be about equivalent in performance to a GeForce 2 GTS. But even off that you should be easily getting 60+ FPS. My guess is a software bottleneck somewhere along the line, hard to say where.


Also F**K You (man your are so cool) GeForce 4 MX440's are good video cards and i am considering buying one myself, its just that i believe spending $380 on a Ti4200 seems ridiculous to me. $380 just to play games is a waste.

[chisholm]

doesn;t the GF4mx 420 have SD ram?ewwww:D

[Ehhe Yebeb]

No. it has DDR

[ruski]

I'm not suprised with that result, the GF4 MX420 PCI is pretty shocking! If it was AGP, than it would be better, a GF2 MX400 would be better than that and also, voodoo cards are still the best pci cards around, so go agp if u can!

[RDR]

No. it has DDR

I was under the impression that the MX 420 model had SDR Ram as well - only the 440 & 460 models had DDR.

Reviews of the MX420 are very few and far between - where did you get this info from?

[RDR]

GeForce4 MX 420
Fill Rate: 1 Billion Texels/Sec.
Triangles per Second: 31 Million
Memory Bandwidth: 2.7GB/Sec.
Maximum Memory: 64MB


I got this directly from the nVidia website - 2.7GB/sec - that would have to be either 128bit SDR or 64bit DDR memory.

....or it's the lowest clocked 128bit DDR ever produced :D

[Wiggo]

Correct in the second bit RDR it is 64bit DDR. :thumb:

[Ehhe Yebeb]

Im sure if this person could get an AGP card they would. A Geforce 4 MX 420 will outperform a GeForce 2 MX400 but not by much. You can get a Voodoo 5 5500 or voodoo 5 6000, they might be better, but they are also a rip off, and are no longer supported or made

[Ehhe Yebeb]

GeForce 4 MX420 comes in SDRam and DDR models

[Wiggo]

They do support SDRAM but of the five I could find all were equiped with DDR SDRAM probably because they don't want to be out done in sales as ppl would just think that a DDR version was better anyway. :smokin:
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