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i have an IBM T40 laptop with the following config

 

P-M 1.5 GHz

32MB Mobility Radeon 7500

512 MB RAM

WinXP Pro

 

i understand that the radeon is the weakpoint in this system but having turned everything to a minimum , i still get 1.0 fps whenever any character does any sort of movement. why is that so? this system handles other games fine with everything tunrned to a minimum.

 

my desktop rig with

P-4 1.6 GHz

GF2mx 64MB

256MB RAM

WinXP Pro

runs the game on the same settings with almost no hiccups averaging in the 15-25 fps range.

 

why does the more powerful laptop run the game less well?

and is there anything i can turn down further to make it run smoothly?

i have tried turninng everything possible down with the s2 gfx configurator but it still stutters. =(

help.

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I'm starting to think there is a serious bug with Radeon cards 9000 and older.

 

I got the same PC at home and at the office, the only difference is that in the office I hava a Radeon 9000 and at home a Radeon 9200... well, with the 9200 it goes pretty well, but with the 9000 the game got stuck everytime a texture is loaded... for example you can see the menu screen with no trouble... but in the campaign screen if you move the mouse from one book to another the game freezes on every texture load.

In the main game it is even worst as any movement (mouse movement) makes visible lots of new objecst, so the game with my radeon 9000 is impossible to play. :evil:

 

The computer is a pentium 2.4GHz or so with 512Mb Ram... so, WTF!!

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Something sounds a bit screwy... how much have you played around with the confi.cfg file? A lot of things can be fixed by tweaking that, there is a really useful sticky on the Nival forums.

 

But driver & DirectX updates are always a good place to start.

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Well i tried the latest mobility driver from IBM. still the same problem.

 

However i was nosing around the Nival forums and found this advice for consistent slowdowns.

change this setting in config.cfg

 

setvar gfx_swvertexprocess = 1.00

 

it should be 0.00 just change it to 1.00

 

give it a try TOPO. worked for me. now i can play silent storm in school....

which might not be such a good thing.....

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Well folks try this config file. It is from russian forum of https://www.silest.ru There were about 10 radeon 9000 users which confirm that it works great for them:

 

//============================================================================

// generated by S^2, do not modify

//============================================================================

setvar cheat_allow_headshot = 1.00

setvar cheat_blood = 1.00

setvar console_writelog = 0.00

setvar game_autosaves = 1.00

setvar game_camerasensivity = 1.00

setvar game_dblclkmoveinrealtime = 0.00

setvar game_eq_on_grenades = 0.00

setvar game_forceturnbased = 0.00

setvar game_invertscrollx = 0.00

setvar game_invertscrolly = 0.00

setvar game_invertturnx = 1.00

setvar game_invertturny = 0.00

setvar game_noai = 0.00

setvar game_pathinrealtime = 1.00

setvar game_profile = LamOKriaK

setvar game_scrollsensivity = 1.00

setvar game_selectionsensivity = 1.00

setvar game_skipvideo = 0.00

setvar game_tbs_on_enemy_spot = 0.00

setvar gfx_16bit_mode = 0.00

setvar gfx_16bit_textures = 0.00

setvar gfx_anisotropic_filter = 0.00

setvar gfx_block_buffering = 1.00

setvar gfx_blur_sun = 0.00

setvar gfx_cl = 0.00

setvar gfx_cl_blur = 0.00

setvar gfx_cl_cube_resolution = 64.00

setvar gfx_cl_sky_textures = 0.00

setvar gfx_cl_use_bump = 1.00

setvar gfx_cl_use_bump_always = 1.00

setvar gfx_cl_use_precise_shadows = 0.00

setvar gfx_decals = 1.00

setvar gfx_depth_tex_resolution = 1024.00

setvar gfx_fastest = 1.00

setvar gfx_fix_ban_np2 = 0.00

setvar gfx_fix_nv_np2_hack = 0.00

setvar gfx_fog = 0.00

setvar gfx_fsaa = 0.00

setvar gfx_fullscreen = 1.00

setvar gfx_gamma = 1.00

setvar gfx_hsr = 0.00

setvar gfx_hw_hsr = 0.00

setvar gfx_maxlag = 0.00

setvar gfx_nopixelshaders = 0.00

setvar gfx_particles = 1.00

setvar gfx_point_specular = 0.00

setvar gfx_register_resolution = 4.00

setvar gfx_resolution = 800.00

setvar gfx_shadows = 0.00

setvar gfx_specular = 0.00

setvar gfx_static_nooverwrite = 1.00

setvar gfx_stencil_shadows = 0.00

setvar gfx_swvertexprocess = 0.00

setvar gfx_terrain_565 = 1.00

setvar gfx_texture_mip = 0.00

setvar gfx_texture_usedxt = 1.00

setvar gfx_tnl_mode = 1.00

setvar gfx_validate = 0.00

setvar lua_showlog = 0.00

setvar sound_mode = 1.00

setvar sound_musicvolume = 1.00

setvar sound_outputmode = quad

setvar sound_sfxvolume = 1.00

setvar ui_charresponses = 1.00

setvar ui_charresponsessubtitles = 0.00

setvar ui_followcamera = 1.00

setvar ui_hwcursor = 1.00

setvar ui_messages = 1.00

setvar ui_showhints = 1.00

setvar ui_showicons = 1.00

setvar ui_showtooltips = 1.00

setvar ui_tooltipdelay = 0.10

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