Game Performance is NO!

falconis_99 · Post by **falconis_99** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:28 pm

i seriously cant stand the performance anymore. these are my system specs:

Pentium 4 2.02 GHz
512 of DDR Ram
80 Gigs of Hard Drive Space
128 Nvidea GeForce FX 5200 Graphics Card

The Game still runs like crap, is there anything i can do to increase the performance. i have all of the graphics at a minimum, shadows off. and yah i can still play but it freezes for like 8 seconds in some spots.

Legend · Post by **Legend** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:33 pm

Tried a driver update ?

falconis_99 · Post by **falconis_99** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:49 pm

driver update for what my video card? because yah i did.

RWStagg · Post by **RWStagg** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:00 pm

I would suggest another 512mb ram...probably make the world of difference

msxyz · Post by **msxyz** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:14 pm

I would suggest more RAM and another videocard... But this is not the case... I've a GeForce 5700 Ultra and the performance is still very disappointing. By comprison, with Half Life 2 (same engine, even better graphics) I never get below 25-30 fps at 1024x768 with AA2x enabled. With Vampire my framerate is always between 10 (yes, sadly) and 20 fps! Something is broken in the game...

jimbo32 · Post by **jimbo32** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:42 pm

Two questions: 1. What's your page file size (min and max), and 2. What version of NVidea Forceware are you running?

falconis_99 · Post by **falconis_99** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:56 pm

i have 8190 page file total, thats like somewhere around 4 gig on the drive the games on. and my driver for forceware are version 66.93.

Antaeos · Post by **Antaeos** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:03 pm

How do I view FPS?

I have an AMD64 3200+ (2,00 ghz), 1024 mb DDR PCI3200, and a GeForce 6800 GT 256 DDR.

I can run the game very smoothly in the highest resolution.

jimbo32 · Post by **jimbo32** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:36 pm

[QUOTE=falconis_99]i have 8190 page file total, thats like somewhere around 4 gig on the drive the games on. and my driver for forceware are version 66.93.[/QUOTE]

Page file is plenty. You may want to try the Source optimized NVidea drivers that Tech Connect have on their website. (TC NVidea Optimized Drivers version 04)

If you're able to upgrade your RAM, this will make a huge difference. With almost the same setup as you, I put in another stick of 512 and the improvement was immediate. Load times were dramatically reduced, and choppiness was eliminated.

falconis_99 · Post by **falconis_99** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:58 pm

should i uninstall the nvidea drivers i have unstalled right now before i install the optimized ones from tech center.