johhny6ass Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 hey all, sorry in advance for any blatant n00bness in this post... i'm runnin a geforce 3 on an 800mhz amd athalon, with 128 mb ram and winxp... in jk2 multi i am constantly pulling a low, low framerate. in fact, it floats around 15, and never breaks 20 fps... this seems pretty weird considering my setup. so my question is whether anyone has any suggestions as to what could be going on... i've checked out 3dspotlight's tweak guide and played around with some settings such as r_ext_compress_textures, com_maxfps, etc. and what not, so i'm pretty sure it's not just a totally simple problem... any help would be v. appreciated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datheus Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Well, do you have all the vid. settings for the game set on low? And also...do you have something running in the background? Like SETI@Home or something? I figure probably not, but I'm just kinda throwing ideas out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knyte Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 What res are you trying to run at? 128mb of RAM is almost nothing when running w/ XP. Microsoft lists that XP itself uses around 80mb just to run normally and when youre running a graphic intensive game with the other 50mb you dont really have much room to work with. My bet is that you dont have enough RAM in your PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mawa Posted June 12, 2002 Share Posted June 12, 2002 Turn off shadows, use cg_shadows 0 in the console this should improve your fps, also turn off anisotropic filtering in-game and use you geforce's own filtering (its under the advanced option thingy) Don't use very high textures just use high and this should help too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johhny6ass Posted June 13, 2002 Author Share Posted June 13, 2002 hey thanks for all your comments & suggestions.... however... i just upped my RAM from 128 to 512 today. after booting up jk2, i found that nothing had changed. as far as setttings go, i have tried everything, from all low / 16bit / bilinear, etc. to everything cranked, the fps still stay right around 20... if this is a normal thing someone plz let me know b/c it's driving me nuts... also, i have shadows disabled, i've adjusted the com_hunkmegs accordingly, and i tried using geforce 3's filtering settings as suggested above. if anyone can possibly think of anything else, i would appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Sith Lord Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 Most likly your cpu that gives u bad fps cuz i had the same problem myself so i fixed it by changing my ****ty intel p3 533 to a intel p4 2ghz. Good luck !! Intel P4 2Ghz Windows XP Home Edition 160 Gigs 256 RAM Asus Geforce 3 SB Audigy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebcoe Posted June 17, 2002 Share Posted June 17, 2002 I'm having the same problems with a GeForce 4 ti. What motherboard do you have? I've been reading that there could be some real problems with boards based on the VIA chipset and GeForce cards. I think that's my problem, but I don't know how to fix it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mawa Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 I have a Soltek board which uses an AMD Northbridge and a VIA Southbridge. It plays great i have upped my resolution to 1280X1024 32 Bit and i still get an average of 60-80+ fps. Soltek 75-KV 1.33 Ghz Athlon T-Bird 256 MB PC133 Ram Abit 64MB DDR Siluro Geforce 3 Ti200 Nvidia 29.42 Winxp Drivers Windows XP Home Edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiles4 Posted June 28, 2002 Share Posted June 28, 2002 I'm also using a VIA-AMD-Win98SE and am getting awesome framerates. 1.2G Tbird 512MB DDR GF3 Ti 200 (currently not overclocked) at 1600x1200x32 I get 60-100+ fps. So, I wouldn't say this is a VIA-AMD problem. Could it be that JK2 is an extremely cpu-intensive game - meaning that it takes a very beefy cpu to play with good framerates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xytrix Posted June 29, 2002 Share Posted June 29, 2002 Ok, I'm not quite sure why you would have such low framerates on that system.. but I'm just assuming that your maxfps is capped to 20 since you say it never breaks 20fps... To raise maxfps (if this is the problem), bring down the console while playing by hitting Shift + Tilde... (the Tilde is this: ~) In the console type this without the quotes "/com_maxfps 99" this will raise your max to 99 (which is good if you have a refresh rate of 100hz for your screen). It seems almost too simple to be a solution... but give it a shot, see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xytrix Posted June 29, 2002 Share Posted June 29, 2002 LOL, I didn't fully read the original post before I replied.. I see that you already tried changing the max fps... I officially announce that I'm dumb.. just ignore me :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa Tahu Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 Try uninstalling and then re-installing JO. I thought 256Mb of RAM would be 1337 enough for JO but I had XP and that made JO lag.LAG!On 256,RDRAM?!Sounds impossible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Brophy Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 when we try to play online it says connection intereupted or i runs really badly can anyone help him cos i want to play him hes got a 56k modem and his sever is freeserve anytime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.