SoupMaster Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 When playing the game, every minute or so, the framrate will drop down to about 5 fps and become unplayabe for about 5 seconds then return to normal. Its really weird. I doesnt always happen right away either. Some times it takes as much as 15 minutes of playing before it starts. This has occured in one other game I have played as well. Aliens vs Predator 2. The rest of the time I play the game, it runs silky smooth. My system is plenty powerful enough. 1.2ghz Athlon 384meg DDR ram Geforce 2 MX Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Eyes Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 count yourself lucky. I have an Athlon TB 1233, 256 of DDR on An Epox 8KHA+ and a GeForce 3 Ti 200 and it's not silky smooth at all.. quite disapointed i am. Have you tried all the obvious things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoupMaster Posted April 1, 2002 Author Share Posted April 1, 2002 What obvious things? I just turned on my computer this morning and played for a little while and experienced no slow downs for almost 30 minutes. Could this have something to do with my computer warming up? It cant be system resources because I always reboot before I play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoupMaster Posted April 5, 2002 Author Share Posted April 5, 2002 BUMP... Could this be due to my card running too hot? I am not overclocked or anything and have 2 fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billoute Posted April 5, 2002 Share Posted April 5, 2002 1800xp (1,53 ghz) 512 DDR 2100 IBM 40go 7200 Geforce 3 ti200 i don't know if the slowdowns i got were the same.. but i noticed them... the most strange about theses, is that there was no apparent reason... until i noticed someting... slowdowns appears only when a lot (more than 5 - 6) ennemies are near... even if i don't see them. so.. my athlon 1800xp is already out ? i can't believe it, since all recent games using the same Q3 engine runs smoothly with all options maxed out (except fsaa since with res about 1024 and above don't really need antialias) switching res doesn't change the slowdown... it's still here. well... i'v finally found the reason -> volumetric shadow i'v switched it to normal... and no more slowdonw ! only this option seems to do a dramatic hit on performance.. and for what ? real cast shadows, ok they'r cool but i really don't like how it performs on models... just look a the first cinematic, you can see each polygon on the face of kyle katarn... but really... raven should do something about this, maybe a bad implemented option ? bad optimisation or something ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi Wan Kanoli Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 It's just bad programming guy....I'd kill for a P4 but runs very nicely on my P III 600mhz. I get very little pauses in the game or slow downs, Raven took a well working Quake Engine and just made things worse for some and that's it. They didn't spend enough time putting the game through it's paces and worked out any bugs and slowdowns as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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