xChris5442x Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 I just installed the JA demo and the game is playing like im using my old 500 Mhz Celeron. I have 2.53 Ghz P4 and 512 RAM with Radeon 9600 128 RAM. Playing the game maxed like all my other newer games at 1024x762 32-Bit. Is there anyway to fix this? edit: using WinXP also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForceMaster Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Our systems are pretty close. Try turning off forcefeedback mouse in setup. It worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xChris5442x Posted September 16, 2003 Author Share Posted September 16, 2003 tried that still laggin. thanks for reply though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy867 Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Well, the problem is that the way that Jedi Academy was designed maxing out would definitely make the CPU work harder, one suggestion is try updating your video drivers, and downloading DirectX 9 if you haven't already. Also, Try running at 800x600 instead of 1024x768, also, try turning off dynamic glow and dynamic lighting and kick the anistropic filter down to 50%. and try running in 16-bit mode, not 32-bit. And turn the game mode from Trilinear rendering to bilinear. and kick it down to high instead of very high for player geometry Try running disk cleanup wizard and defrag as well, since that will help boost overall hard drive access speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emorog Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 definitely try new video drivers first, but also try disabling Dynamic Glow in the mean time as that sometimes has trouble on old drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 This is where PCs become a hassle, such is the variation in hardware that game developers have a hard time making it friendly to all cards. Anyway, it sucks that you will have to dumb the performance of what seems to be a high powered machine to get it to run without all the fancy stuff. I am lucky to have a GeForce 5200, only 64mb but it runs a treat, I run it at 1280 x 1024 but it looks fine at 1024 x 768 as well Firstly, is your card in the 'supported' list. If not, no matter how great your system performance can suck. Hope you have some luck ! MTFBWYA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Well, I don't know what your problem is, because my old PC is running the game fine with everything turned on except volumetric shadows. Athlon 850Mhz 256 Mb PC100 SDRAM Radeon 9700 Pro Win98SE Catalyst 3.4 drivers The game slows down in a few areas, and rarely goes below 20 fps (which I find acceptable), but mostly runs much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Do you have many background programs running ? Is your HD space healthy ? Maybe there's something bigger going on in that poor PC of yours ! Good luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuRn Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 the only thing that slows my game down is volmuetric shadows, its wierd becuase i go from everything turned up running at 60 to 80 fps to 10.....very strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatred01 Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Originally posted by StormHammer Well, I don't know what your problem is, because my old PC is running the game fine with everything turned on except volumetric shadows. Athlon 850Mhz 256 Mb PC100 SDRAM Radeon 9700 Pro Win98SE Catalyst 3.4 drivers The game slows down in a few areas, and rarely goes below 20 fps (which I find acceptable), but mostly runs much faster. Obviously your definition of fine is much different than others. I would suspect if I was playing on your computer I would consider it to slow (anything less than 40fps is bad). And the only thing remotely keeping your frames "good" is your 9700 pro. People with slower computers can generally handle lower fps easier than people with better machines. You'd be suprised how much better your game will look if you turn down useless crap that hog up recources. I'll always take fps over a few extra pieces of "eye candy" I would have otherwise never noticed anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xChris5442x Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 Upate: The comp is brand new. Nothing is running in the background and i even restarted my comp before playing. It's been defragged as of saturday and I also ran a full scandisk. Im running DirectX 9.0a and Catalyst 3.7. Games I curretly run maxed, meaning All the extra crap, smoke, shawdows.... Call of Duty Demo Raven Shield BattleField 1942 Soldier of Fortune 2 (very similuar to JA) Quake III Black Hawk Down Medal Of Honor All the above games play perfect. I never play one after the other I always restart the comp. I dont think I should have to turn down the extra stuff in Jedi nor play 800x600. Didnt buy this comp to play with all the extras turned down =) should i re-install.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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