Possible BIG Clue to FPS Slow-downs

[Hurin]

My System Configuration (going to be totally complete here just in case Lucasarts is watching):

 

(All drivers were downloaded today prior to machine wipe. . . so all should be newest except the NVidia ones which I purposefully left at v23.11)

 

P4 2Ghz (Northwood)

Asus P4B266-C Motherboard (newest Intel Chipset Drivers)

512 MB DDR RAM (Corsair 2400)

GF3 ti500 (Detonator Driver v23.11. Hercules Brand.)

SB Live X-Gamer (non-5.1) (Driver v3509.2.0.0 --Newest--)

Adaptec 29160N SCSI Controller

Quantum Atlas 10K III 18GB

Plextor UltraPlex 40

Yamaha 4x2x16x CDRW

3Com 3C905C-TX Network Card

DirectX 8.1 freshly downloaded from WindowsUpdate.

 

 

Well, I decided to try to rule out Windows XP Professional as the source of my low-fps problem. In so doing, I think I may have discovered an important clue.

 

At first, I thought going to Windows 2000 solved my problem. I thought this because, as soon as I got everything installed and went back to my last saved game, it was *much* faster. Whereas I was getting 25-35fps before the removal of XP, I was now getting 60-70fps (1280x1024 Max settings) with Windows 2000.

 

But, get this, it *wasn't* the switch to Windows 2000. . . because when I quickloaded the save again my fps plummeted back down to a dismal 25fps again.

 

It's the friggin' quickloads. . . somehow. I can't explain it. But I quit the game completely, started the game up from scratch, loaded the save again, and I was once again cruising at 70fps. Even when I looked up at the mountain that had been crippling me down to 20fps previously. Then, I hit F9 to quickload. . . sure enough. . . back down to crappy performance.

 

I don't know *why* this is the case. . . but something is definitely wrong here. Some kind of resource leak when a save is loaded?

 

Let me know if you guys notice the same thing. I've been doing these test right after I killed the 2nd AT-ST on the level where there are the ion cannons (hope that wasn't too much of a spoiler). In order to look at your FPS, you'll need to:

 

Bring up the console by pressing SHIFT ~

 

Type: set cg_drawfps 1

 

You should now see the FPS displayed in the top-right corner of the screen.

 

Thanks!

 

Hurin

[McDeth]

Yes, I have had this same exact problem, but it was really strange how it happened. I THINK I did this;

I turned my res from 1200x768 down to 1024x768, and after that, I was lucky to get above <1 fps. I then saved the game. I was frustrated so I also went to bed. When I booted up the computer it still had the prob in the morning, so I deleted the savegame and played from the previous level. Really weird. IT fixed the problem. I also noticed that the game took like 5 minutes to load up on my Athlong 1600 XP, which was strange also.

[Traidur]

Oh thank god I've finally found some people with the same problem!

 

My specs:

Win XP pro

P3 800

GeForce 3

384 MB

 

I have found out that auto saves the game saves itself work fine but the saves that the player makes, not just quicksaves, slow the fps to a crawl. I tell you, I'm just glad somebody else has this problem, maybe something they can fix in a patch.