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Soul Calibur - how fast with Your hardware

cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
Burnpro said:
i ll try to disable ac97 sound card when i get at home, right now i can barely hit 42 fps at times in SC even with everything closed on this p4 3.0c,
hope chankast team read this thread and work a bit on p4 s
btw cooliscol ur cpu is 533 mhz bus, you can barely hit 600 mhz ocing it,
and using better than pc2700 ddr memory wont improve much ur perfomance as you need to to use 5:4 ratio

How so? I've seen people with good sample Northwood A's hitting 640ish on air..:p
 

weedfreak

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My specs:

Athlon XP 2100+ overclocked to "real" 2.000 mhz being Atlon 2400+ eqivalent
512 MB infinion DDR 333 (CPU FSB is overclocked from 266 to 333)
Asus A7N8x (Nforce 2, but first generation ;) )
Geforce 4 ti 4200
onboard 6.1 Sound ( no, not the Nvidia SoundChip ...ac97 ;))
Gamecube pad / Psx Pad via adaptors



Soul calibur is running on 55 - 70 of 60 Frames per second on my system when SH4 is overclocked to 120% - 130% (depending on stage 70/60 fps only in "Chaos" - stage)

I already played Story mode for a while now ;)
 
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lukasfr

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yeah, it's kinda weird.
me with my P4 2.6 HT 800FSB got only 30-35fps :down: in 800x600 fullscreen with chankast 0.25 of coz
gpu radeon 9200 128mb - all antialiasing and that filtering are OFF (newest drivers)
maybe cause of little ram memory (only 256mb DDR400) or mobo (abit is7-e) with intel chipset and of course integrated sound (maybe i should turn the hadrware acceleration off ?). i dunno mates, i wish it runs about 40-50fps
of course at 30fps it's still playable

sorry for my english :p
 

gandalf

Member ready to help
cooliscool said:
I'm not entirely sure if a TUSL2-C bios will work or not.. I wouldn't risk it until you can find a definitive answer. It is possible it would work though. As for more advice.. nope, can't say anymore till I know your board can OC at all. ;) I'm fairly sure it should have a jumper setting for 100>133 FSB, which that Celeron should be able to handle without a problem at all (1.6GHz, 12.0x133). :) The improvement over 1.2GHz is incredible, you won't believe it. :party:

Another option is CPUFSB which is a program to OC you can use if you know your PLL IC (go HERE to find out how to see what PLL IC you have). The program has a preset for ASUS TUSL2-C PLL IC, which may work with your board. Try it out.

Oh man, CPUFSB works!
I overclock my Duron 700 mhz (really 697 mhz) to 721 mhz!

Thank you Cooliscool!

Sorry for the off-topic
 

mezkal

Man on a mission
gandalf said:
Oh man, CPUFSB works!
I overclock my Duron 700 mhz (really 697 mhz) to 721 mhz!

Thank you Cooliscool!

Sorry for the off-topic

About time someone here thanked him. Sheesh :)
 

Strange

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I overclock my Duron 700 mhz (really 697 mhz) to 721 mhz!
21Mhz lol =)
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Don`t worry - almost all P4 users have not many fps... Try to disable your audio in BIOS and check the speed after that...
 
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-indecisive-

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thank you, cooliscool!
i couldn't find any jumpers(really, i don't even know what they look like), but i found my pll info and used the cpufsb prgram. at first i just jumped to the 133 mhz setting which froze my computer. after the reboot i set it to 100, then 110 i think, then 120..etc..finally to 133. it worked, but only for a minute. i heard my crappy fan get into high gear soon after setting it, then everything just shut down. right now i have the fbs set to 120 and that's where i'm going to leave it. there's not enough room in my crappy case for better cooling, but i'm happy with the 200mhz increase anyway(even though the fan won't go out of high gear)

edit: holy shiiit! the dc bios runs so much faster for chankast and only with a 200mhz increase! man, if i were somehow to hit like 2ghz i don't think much would be running slow on chankast. by the way, my current cpu temp's going between 56 and 58 C.
edit#2: sound doesn't work when you up the fsb. i have integrated sound so that could be the problem. it's still good for when encoding video, dvd etc, but not emulation(not like i was gonna get chankast full speed anyway)

anyway, thatnks for all the help again, really appreciated.
cpu-z shot:
 
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lukasfr

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Strange said:
21Mhz lol =)
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Don`t worry - almost all P4 users have not many fps... Try to disable your audio in BIOS and check the speed after that...

yeah, but playing without sound it's not the same :down:
i'll check that morning (it's 01:00 here now)
:down: stupid pentium processors
 

gandalf

Member ready to help
yeah,24mhz it´s not a BIG overclocking, but i get more FPS in 1964 (zelda oot no slowdowns!),and PC games (like counter-strike) stable FPS.

Edit: my proccesor is overclocked to 730 mhz,and i can´t overclock more.
 
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misfits138

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-indecisive- said:
thank you, cooliscool!
i couldn't find any jumpers(really, i don't even know what they look like), but i found my pll info and used the cpufsb prgram. at first i just jumped to the 133 mhz setting which froze my computer. after the reboot i set it to 100, then 110 i think, then 120..etc..finally to 133. it worked, but only for a minute. i heard my crappy fan get into high gear soon after setting it, then everything just shut down. right now i have the fbs set to 120 and that's where i'm going to leave it. there's not enough room in my crappy case for better cooling, but i'm happy with the 200mhz increase anyway(even though the fan won't go out of high gear)

edit: holy shiiit! the dc bios runs so much faster for chankast and only with a 200mhz increase! man, if i were somehow to hit like 2ghz i don't think much would be running slow on chankast. by the way, my current cpu temp's going between 56 and 58 C.
edit#2: sound doesn't work when you up the fsb. i have integrated sound so that could be the problem. it's still good for when encoding video, dvd etc, but not emulation(not like i was gonna get chankast full speed anyway)

anyway, thatnks for all the help again, really appreciated.
cpu-z shot:

I read 50 C is the danger zone for Intel chips... better watch it.

I think it said Intel chips should not go over 50C and AMD should not go over 60.
 
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cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
misfits138 said:
I read 50 C is the danger zone for Intel chips... better watch it.

I think it said Intel chips should not go over 50C and AMD should not go over 60.

The Tualatin is rated for n 69C. He's ok. :)

Anyway, to the both of you, you're very welcome. :happy:
 
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cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
I'll go ahead and list all AMD Athlons right here. :) Keep in mind that these are MAX temps, and not particularly suitable, always shoot for much lower.


Athlon (socket A) upto 1Ghz - 90°C

Athlon (slot 1) all speeds - 70°C

Athlon Thunderbird 1.1Ghz+ - 95°C

Athlon MP 1.33Ghz+ - 95°C

Athlon XP 1.33Ghz+ - 90°C

Athlon XP T-Bred upto 2100+ - 90°C

Athlon XP T-Bred over 2100+ - 85°C

Athlon XP Barton - 85°C

Athlon 64 - 70°C
 

Strange

New member
Athlon XP T-Bred upto 2100+ - 90°C

Athlon XP T-Bred over 2100+ - 85°C

Athlon XP Barton - 85°C

Athlon 64 - 70°C
ARE YOU CRAZY? There you get those really funny results?

Athlon XP T-Bred upto 2100+ - 40-47°C
Athlon XP T-Bred over 2100+ - 45-55°C
Athlon XP Barton 45-55°C
Athlon 64 - don`t know but 100% NOT 70°C...

BTW I with my 2.4Ghz have only 56°C with fully load in Chanka for example.

Danger zone for Athlon is about 70°C - its will burn if it get 90°C... 60°C - with this temp CPU can work unstable.
i wanna sell this crap p4 lolz
Heh - then why you bought this CPU? - there was really good alternative - Athlon64 3000+ - its cheaper than P4 and much faster...
 
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Guus

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Strange said:
ARE YOU CRAZY? There you get those really funny results?

Athlon XP T-Bred upto 2100+ - 40-47°C
Athlon XP T-Bred over 2100+ - 45-55°C
Athlon XP Barton 45-55°C
Athlon 64 - don`t know but 100% NOT 70°C...

BTW I with my 2.4Ghz have only 56°C with fully load in Chanka for example.

Danger zone for Athlon is about 70°C - its will burn if it get 90°C... 60°C - with this temp CPU can work unstable.

Heh - then why you bought this CPU? - there was really good alternative - Athlon64 3000+ - its cheaper than P4 and much faster...

Maybe he bought his P4 2 years ago (like me).
P4 was the fastest at that time.
I also want to sell my P4 for an Athlon64 but that's only for chankast :p
 

Strange

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Maybe he bought his P4 2 years ago (like me).
Pentium4 3.06GhzHT 2 years ago? Are you really serious? Meh....
P4 was the fastest at that time.
Since Athlons was released Pentiums never was the fastest :p
I also want to sell my P4 for an Athlon64 but that's only for chankast
Why is only fo Chanka? - A64 faster than P4 almost in any application...
 

Burnpro

Supar ***
Strange said:
Pentium4 3.06GhzHT 2 years ago? Are you really serious? Meh....

Since Athlons was released Pentiums never was the fastest :p

Why is only fo Chanka? - A64 faster than P4 almost in any application...

p4 3.06 was out late 2002 so practically its 2 years old,
and btw a64's are faster in gaming but not on everything,
the a64 3200+ is not faster than the p4 3.2C,
 

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