DirectX Diagnostic Tool

Post by **Redeye** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:34 am

Problem:
When I use this tool and go to the Display tab, Test Direct3D I see the cube spinning super fast. It will ask if you can read the cube, but I can't because it's too fast to read?

Any suggestions on how to slow it down?

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:23 pm

LOL, ask Chuck Norris....he will slow it down for ya

Post by **Lawndart** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:25 pm

Redeye, does the cube spin fast on all three Direct3D tests performed when you hit the button (once)? I just ran one with DX diagnostics on my notebook and each instance was slow paced. I'm not at home to test it on my other rig, so I can't tell you whether this is normal or not.

Post by **Redeye** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:12 am

All three test were the same, to fast to read the cube.

Post by **Redeye** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:34 pm

Well, seems i can't do anything to slow down the spinning cube.

What i did to improve my FPS and eliminate most of the studders is lower the hardware acceleration down one notch.

Right click on your desktop and select properties/settings/advanced. In the next window select troubleshoot. Here you can lower your setting. Mine was set to Full. One notch down disables cursor and bitmap accelerations. This leaves a disappearing cursor (studdering cursor) only when your ingame but you can still manage to position it to make your selections.

I haven't tried flying with 6 or more clients on our server yet but on my own phantom server i get approx 10-12 more FPS.

Whack · Post by **Whack** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:24 pm

Hey Red,

I changed my settings as well and got another 8-10 FPS. That almost gets me into the double-digits!!

I'd be curious as to how you have your video card set up as well: Anti-Aliasing, anisotropic filtering, etc.

I'll talk to you about it tonite.

Thanks for the post!.

W.

Post by **Redeye** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:27 pm

Good to hear it helped. My settings for the Nvidia Geforce 7800 GS

AA = x4
AF = off
Image settings = High performance
Color profile = Not available
Vertical sync = off
Conformant texture clamp = off
Extension limit = off
Hardware acceleration = Single-display mode
Triliner optimization = off
Anisotropic sample optimization = off
Anisotropic mip filter optimization = off
Gamma correct antialiasing = off
Transparency antialiasing = off
Triple buffering = off
Negative LOD bias = Allow

Post by **Lawndart** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:22 pm

Double digits Whack?!

Your kiddin' right!