Grins2Pain Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Its nothing alarming, but I was wondering if I should be concerned. I have the following system specifications, just to make it easier to see where I stand before I get to the question. AthlonXP 1800 (performance rating, dont recall the Mhz) K7N420(nForce) from MSI motherboard Visiontek Xtasy GeForce 4 Ti 4600 256 MB DDR Using built in MCP audio Anyways, I am running the game 1024X768X32 Quicnux(sp) AA with everything turned all the way up, including the debatable Volumetric shadows. Now, what I want to know is this, should I ever slow down at all? I get noticable but not damaging levels of slowdown when I fight upwards of say 15 stormtroopers, have force speed on in a complex area with 10-20 foes, etc. What I want to know from others with similar systems, is should I get any slowdown at all? Could my AGP be set to 1x or could I have a driver or system resource issue or heat or something? If this slowdown is normal it wont break my heart or anything, I just wondered since it surprised me a little since nothing else I have slows down even to like 55 most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raiden Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 well the Volumetric shadows need a lot of cpu power ... and when there are many foes the framerate will break down. maybe you should edit your jk2config.cfg in the jediknightii/gamedata/base directory and set the shadows to: seta cg_shadows "3" ... this shadowtype looks not that bad and it doesnt take too much performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grins2Pain Posted April 6, 2002 Author Share Posted April 6, 2002 You are right, those shadows arent bad at all. However, 99% of the time this is like going from 40fps to like 80fps, and while the higher is nice, since 40 is high enough, I will take the higher quality. Thank you, however, for making me aware of the extra option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj7816 Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 Originally posted by Grins2Pain What I want to know from others with similar systems, is should I get any slowdown at all? Could my AGP be set to 1x or could I have a driver or system resource issue or heat or something? Maybe I'm retarted for not knowing this but... If an AGP was set to 1x, how would you change it to 4x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goner Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 the AGP setting is a motherboard feature I think it is automatic. Check your BIOS if there is no setting then its probably a new motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HC - Exar Kun Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 If your BIOS was made after 1999 then you should have a selectable AGP option in your system BIOS... Choose the highest setting possible and dont worry... ALL AGP CARDS ARE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE SO ANY setting 1x/2x/4x will work As long as your video card supports it.... Your Geforce 4 card should be set at 4x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj7816 Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 My BIOS setup doesn't have an AGP menu. The only option available is wether to use onboard video, AGP video, or PCI video (it's set to AGP, of course). Do I need to flash my BIOS? I have AMIBIOS - the date on it is 3/30/2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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