[HLUG] 64 bit problems

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Hay glad to here you gone 64bit, i would have gone for the opteron as it 
is socket 939 and built on the same core as the top of the range FX 
series cpus from AMD (and can be overclocked to ge the same results).
Anywayz your problem with with UT sounds like a drivers issue with 
either the Graphics card or the nforce 3 chipset. try installing the 
latestest versions.
However you said you kept your graphics card and as such your will only 
see a small increase in FPS (between 10-20fps), but having a 64bit CPU 
will allow more infomation to be passed in game per clock cycle and 
therefore if your running the 64bit version of UT the graphics card will 
have more to do and may result in the same/lower FPS.
but it shouldnt drop the FPS by 40 frames.

The cpu usage sounds about right as its still only a single core cpu, 
and  UT will try to use all it can. If you had a dual core it would use 
all of a single core and therefore the overall workload would be about %50

Tim

j michaelson wrote:

>hello everyone.
>
>i've finally upgraded to 64 bit. i decided not to go for the opteron
>144 chip because i wanted to use socket 939 and i decided to stick
>with my agp 8x graphics card. here's what i bought.....
>
>amd athlon 64 3200+ graphics card
>http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3P7B
>
>gigabyte k8nsc motherboard
>http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?QuickLinx=3P2B
>
>i rebuilt my computer with the new kit. installed 64 bit ubuntu.
>activated the nvidia drivers. rebooted and installed unreal tournament
>2004. i was surprised and disappointed to find out that i was actually
>getting a slower framerate. i opened up a terminal and ran top only to
>discover that unreal tournament was still hogging well over 90% of the
>cpu usage just like it had on my old processor.
>
>this is weird. i've gone from a 1.6ghz 32bit chip to a 2.0ghz 64bit
>chip and unreal tournament has dropped from 60 fps down to less than
>20. i can't make any sense of it.
>
>does anyone have any idea what might be going on?
>
>john michaelson.
>
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