Stable FPS has little to do with how much CPU headroom you have. You would have better FPS results with a faster single Quad with higher front-side bus speed and higher CPU clock.
You said you are nowhere near full usage, so I assume you do have some moderate usage of the CPU and overall system. To maintain stable FPS you should keep utilization to under 15-20% at all times and only run a few games. Mostly what matters is interrupts not CPU utilization for maintaining high FPS. If you expected to run 80% CPU and keep stable FPS at 500-1000 then sorry to bear the bad news but that's not going to happen. There is too much context switching going on to allow that. Justin wrote: > Depends on how low the FPS drops; I see if the FPS drops below than half the > tickrate it can cause high rate players to lag... > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Kornelijus Survila > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> -_- why are so many people OCD about fps drops that don't affect gameplay? >> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Steven Crothers < >> [email protected] >> >>> wrote: >>> >>> You don't need the FPS to change. Going from 500-450 will not change any >>> gameplay (like you stated). Tossing more CPU at the situation will only >>> lead >>> to less gameserver slots on your machine. >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Radu Suciu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> How do the different FPS boosters compare in terms of their ability to >>>> provide stable boosts? I've got pretty decent hardware but I'm seeing >>>> >>> drops >>> >>>> from 500 even down to 450 sometimes and while the ingame experience is >>>> >>> just >>> >>>> fine I'd like to improve to a more stable baseline. Currently I'm >>>> >> running >> >>>> opsbooster.exe and my machine is a 2x Quad Xeon (Harpertown) @ 2.00Ghz >>>> >>> with >>> >>>> 8GB ram and I'm nowhere near full usage. Network connection is also not >>>> >> a >> >>>> problem - my box is hosted with Ubiquity Servers in Dallas and I have >>>> >> no >> >>>> doubts about the quality of their connection. Thanks in advance! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
