Idontregister Posted June 4, 2002 Share Posted June 4, 2002 When I first installed JKII I was running Windows ME with a Geforce2 GTS card on a P4 1.5ghz w/ 512MB RDRAM, and things were dandy. Halfway through the game I upgraded my system to XP and installed a Geforce4 4400 card. Things are better in some ways - XP rocks and the Geforce4 brings a tear to my eye. However, I noticed that load times increased dramatically after I made the upgrades. Specifically, there's a long pause when loading new levels, saving the game, or even after hitting escape to go back to the main menu. The pause occurs before any hard drive activity - it's like the system is trying to resolve somthing before the actual saving or loading process is started. The pause wasn't there before. The only clue I have is that the screen snapshot that's taken when you save a game is now visually corrupted - the bottom half of the snapshot is nothing but a swirl of blue and white pixels. I'm using the latest drivers, reinstalled JKII, yada yada. Nothing seems to work... anybody else get this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekkaman Slade Posted June 4, 2002 Share Posted June 4, 2002 Never, ever "upgrade" any version of Windows. Always reformat your C: drive and do a fresh install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbiesan Posted June 4, 2002 Share Posted June 4, 2002 agreed.. upgrades are bad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontregister Posted June 4, 2002 Author Share Posted June 4, 2002 *gasp* I was afraid you'd say that... Well, time to suck it up do what a man gots ta do. thanks for the replies, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_st Posted June 5, 2002 Share Posted June 5, 2002 *grin* The only way to make Windows XP look like Windows ME (performance wise) is installing it on top of Windows ME. And to really f*ck up things you have to use the convert utility that converts a FART 32 (misspelled on purpose ) partition to a NTFS one.. Now, people that do that (I was one of the lucky ones ) have the sh*ittiest HD performance in the whole universe.. Even after completely defragging the HD, I had buffer underflows when I was burning CDs, something that had never happened to me when I was using a plain vanilla 9x OS with a FAT 32 partition. So.. happy formatting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FraggleH Posted June 5, 2002 Share Posted June 5, 2002 Hmm.....I have the same trouble, but not just in JKII, but in just about every program (including Windows Explorer!). Incidentally, mine is a fresh install on brand new hard drive. While I definitely recommmend you format and reinstall (just generally, because upgrades rarely work well), don't necessarily expect to have that particular problem fixed - it might be somethnig else that's the cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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