Xizor's killer Posted February 24, 2004 Posted February 24, 2004 Is there a reason why my game is so choppy? This is SP as well, the game disc seems to be very clean does anyone know why then?
Andy867 Posted February 24, 2004 Posted February 24, 2004 What are your system specs, including CPU speed and type, Video Card (and how much Video RAM it has, driver version) sound card, System Memory, Hard drive, version of DirectX?
txa1265 Posted February 24, 2004 Posted February 24, 2004 Originally posted by Xizor's killer Is there a reason why my game is so choppy? This is SP as well, the game disc seems to be very clean does anyone know why then? Cleanliness of disc has nothing to do with it - once installed you're reading from the hard disk. Plus each level (as much as will fit) gets loaded up into system and video memory. So if you are getting choppy performance, see if it is AI related (lots of enemies) or graphics related, or maybe your system is doing a lot of disc swapping. Mike
Crow_Nest Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 Lower some details, turn off video sync, and disable dynamic glow and force feedback. Hopefully you'll see some improvements. and make sure you have the latest drivers for your video card.
Kurgan Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 Run the system analyzer program. Having the latest stable drivers for your Video/Sound Cards and DirectX version is of paramount importance. Also be sure you have the 1.01 patch from a trusted site (such as LucasFiles.com or LucasArts.com). Other than that yes, turning off Force Feedback, Dynamic Glow and Video Sync can help. Also set filtering to Bilinear and use simple shadows, turn off detailed shaders and turn anisotrophic filtering all the way to the left. Put the depth to 16 bit and the resolution to 1024x768 (or 800x600 if you're really having problems). Don't run the game with other programs going in the background. That should help.
Prime Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 I'd turn down all the settings and then turn them on one by one until you see choppiness.
Tyler_Durden Posted February 26, 2004 Posted February 26, 2004 I was curious as to what framerates the mods were getting in SP. Kurgan, would you care to let us know? I have an AMD athlon XP 2700, 512 megs or Ram and a geforce 4 ti 4200 and i still get a choppy rate.
Crow_Nest Posted February 26, 2004 Posted February 26, 2004 Originally posted by Tyler_Durden I have an AMD athlon XP 2700, 512 megs or Ram and a geforce 4 ti 4200 and i still get a choppy rate. Even on a really high end card, you'll still get framedrops. Im running a Althon XP2000+ 1.6 GHz, 512 RAM and a GeForce FX 5700 ultra, i can still go to about 10 or less frames
Andy867 Posted February 26, 2004 Posted February 26, 2004 Well I have an AMD 1900 XP, 768MB PC2700 RAM, 2mb Buffer 60 GB HDD, and a GeForceFX 5900 128MB DDR RAM, and I get usually about 60-120FPS, but in heavy and i mean HEAVY rendering areas, it drops to about 30.
Tyler_Durden Posted February 26, 2004 Posted February 26, 2004 You know deus ex had the same problems with its frame rate until someone built a program which tweaked what i believed to be the .ini files or the .cfg files i really can't remember, but could the chopiness be attributed to those types of files? I know it's a totally different engine but maybe there's a line in a file somewhere where you could increase or decrease the use of a component which will allow you to optimise the game performance.
-DK-Squee Posted February 27, 2004 Posted February 27, 2004 i got a Geforce FX 5900 se with 256 mb ram and I dont drop lower than 25 fps (even with dynamic glow) so....i dont have and problems with choppyness btw: the highest framerate ive ever gone to was about 300 fps so i really dont have probs with fps
Crow_Nest Posted February 27, 2004 Posted February 27, 2004 try com_maxfps 500, you should be getting higher frames with it. i got a Geforce FX 5900 se with 256 mb ram and I dont drop lower than 25 fps (even with dynamic glow) so....i dont have and problems with choppyness btw: the highest framerate ive ever gone to was about 300 fps so i really dont have probs with fps Heh, dont get too cocky, i ever got 500+ fps before.
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