diaconofrost wrote:Hi there!!
I've got one serious problem playing this wonderful game.
IT'S REALLY SLOW!!!
I tried to take a look in this forum to solve the problem but i didn't find a solution for mine.
Please help me!!!
My configuration is
P4 3.2 Ghz, 1GB Ram, ati x1600 pro 512 mb, win xp. (refresh monitor 60 Mhz,
no aa, no af, res 800 x 600) but it's still slow.
I thought to have a very good configuration for vampire but... where is the problem??
THANK U
Diaconofrost
Well, right off I can say it's not your graphics card. That's what I have and it's a real power-house. It caused one of those spin-outs where after I got it the game sped up so much I was over-correcting like crazy for the first couple of games until I got used to it.
Otherwise, you look in pretty good shape. A 3.2 with 1Gb of RAM should be more than enough to give the game full play.
So I'm thinking that the problem lies elsewhere. Two things you should check.
1) How is your free disk space? If it is very low on your C: drive, then maybe you don't have adequate room for your paging file, although with your config as little as 2 Gb of free disk space should be more than enough.
2) If it ain't hardware, then it's gotta be software. What's running on your system? The easiest way to check is to right-click on your task-bar and select the Task Manager. Go to the processes tab and click the checkbox for "Show processes for all users". Then, at the top of the process list and look for a column labelled "CPU". If it's not there, then you can go to the View menu, Select Columns, and enable it. If you click on the CPU header, it will sort according to CPU usage. Click again, and it will sort descending, with the highest usage at the top of the column. Leave it like that. Next, if you don't have a "Mem Usage" column, go to view and enable that, too. Normally, at this point, the
System Idle Process should be the highest user - it just occupies the CPU when nothing else is using it.
Now, start VTMB and go into a game. If it's playing slow, use Alt-Tab to switch from VTMB to the Task Manager. Look for something hogging the CPU. That should give you the culprit. If the only thing using CPU is the System Idle Process and VTMB, then we'll have to look elsewhere. Try sorting the Mem Usage column in descending order, and see if something is soaking up all of your memory.
If you do find a CPU or memory hog, then you'll have to find a way to either kill it or
nice it. Killing things can be dangerous and lead to crashes and reboots and such so make sure you've saved anything important, but if you have a fiend in your sights, try right-clicking on it and selecting
End process. If nothing weird happens, then Alt-Tab back to the game and see if things have improved.
If something weird does happen, you're looking at a re-boot. Repeat all of the steps up to killing, but
don't kill it. Now you're going to try to
nice it. That just means ordering it to back off.
If your system is multi-cpu or hyperthreaded, you can right-click on the process and use
Affinity... to tell it to use only one CPU. Otherwise you can adjust the
Priority to Below Normal or Low, to order it to yield to VTMB.
Let us know if any of that helps. If not, we'll look for something else. If it does, let us know what was causing the grief, and what worked, in case anybody else has the same problem.