framerate

[timo]

hi,

my framerates aren't very good. The game isn't very fluid, and can slow up a bit when entering a new area or where there's alot of action. I have an AMD2600 , ,512mb ram and a Gforce fx5200 128mbit card. Is it just me, or are others experiencing the same problem? And if not, what could the problem be?

timo

[darkpark]

i have an amd athlon xp 2800 w/ 1GB of ram and i'm not experiencing low framerates. of course, i have newer video card: nvidia 6800gt.

i'd suggest going into video settings for DS2 and turn down some of the features.

[FlynnT]

DS2 -- low frame rate

With 1/2 gb ram you should be OK, but you may want to try quitting some of your running programs. (Virus checker, etc.)

As suggested, you may be trying to play the game with your settings too high. Try it at 800 x 600, as well as those suggested previously.

Your setup seems to satisfy the Min. requirements set out here:

http://www.gaspowered.com/ds2/minspec.php
(You didn't say, but you are running Windows XP with at least SP1 installed?)

It could be you have some spyware slowing things down? Hopefully you are running SpybotSD with Immunize activated. I would also suggest MS AntiSpyware Beta and activate RealTime protection. (With antispyware, unlike antivirus software, you can have more than one version running.)

If all this fails to improve things--check to see if any of your other (newer) games appear to have slowed down. If so -- your only solution may be to reformat Drive C and reinstall Windows.

[timo]

aha, i forgot to install sp1, and adjusted some ingame options, now it's smooth as hell, what a difference lol. Thanks for the help guys!

[FlynnT]

Cheers!

Glad you found the problem! And, really glad it was one of the EASY solutions. While you are at it, you may want to update your OS to SP2.

[Mr.Waesel]

Ati Radeon 9600 XT and 1024 ram with an Athlon 3000+ 64 and the framerate drops into the single digits when there's a lot of effects on the screen