Spring mark scores... what do they mean, what is your score.

[Caydr]

I once ran my sm3 testmap on min settings on an fx5200 and got 2 fps. I got 7 fps once on an 8800GTS running dynamic water.

7 FPS, I don't think tha's even possible on an 8800GTS that isn't defective or else severely throttled by something. No wonder you think it's such a crappy card!

edit: Yeah... I get 40 FPS as a bare minimum, with all settings to maximum including dynamic water and at 1280x1024. You need to get that thing replaced or check your PSU or something. That's way too far below the norm.

[BigSteve]

I bet 1 million dollars he had "threaded optimisation" turned on in nvidia control panel.
Thats the only way youd ever get 7fps in spring with an 8800 :)

[Peet]

OOh, so dyn water works properly on the 8x series now?

[AF]

no it doesnt. Look at the stripey water smoth posted taken on his 8500(8600?).

And the very first beta nvidia drivers where rubbish, max settings on spring made it cringe(it sped up rather a lot when dynamic water was disabled).

And no i have threaded optimization turned off.

[KDR_11k]

I do think the GPU has something to do with it, I do get less FPS when looking at a full scale Gundam base vs. looking at a battlefield (GeForce 6800 here). Well, it won't lag others but low FPS disturbs my concentration and makes me play like crap in Spring (other RTSes have framerate independent cursors so there's no major impact on the user when the framerate drops).

[Caydr]

no it doesnt. Look at the stripey water smoth posted taken on his 8500(8600?).

And the very first beta nvidia drivers where rubbish, max settings on spring made it cringe(it sped up rather a lot when dynamic water was disabled).

And no i have threaded optimization turned off.

You REALLY need to figure out what's wrong in your computer then. 7 FPS on one of these cards shouldn't happen under any normal circumstances.

Another thing you said once worried me too, something to the effect of, you can only get Spring to run stable for a certain period of time. If that's the case as well, you definitely have something bad in your system. PSU would be my guess but my area of expertise is building computers, not diagnosing their problems.

[AF]

I have a fien PSU, its not hardware issue its a software issue. Dynamic water is very particular about what card ti runs udner and fi it isnt that card tis going to give errors and lag to hell.

I have the stripes, so fr you caydr are the only person with an 8 series nvidia card that can run dyanamic water that i am aware of.

Also the stability problem you speak about is also shared by several thousand other users who have cards ranging from 8800GTX ultra to FX 5200. It is a software problem.

So while you've had your 8800 for a while, I remember havign one in ym PC the day Vista was released, testing spring after dling the first official version of the vista nvidia drivers, and getting 2-7fps on max settings at 1680x1050 + 16x AA and AF.