Mouse Nightshirt Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Hello there. First a congratz to Dragonhawk for getting his fan fic in the collectors edition In any case, I installed this game yesterday, and have been suffering major slowdown on the tactical screen, even with graphics down to minimum. I don't think this should be the case. Specs are:Pentium 4 2.8GHtz768 MB RAMATI Radeon x800XT Platinum Edition Card 256MBIntel D865 PERL MoboCreative Soundblaster 24bit 5.1 Now tell me, why do you think I'm suffering slowdown? Not only slowdown, but I have to turn on software sound as I have that problem with being unable to hear gunshots/steps etc with hardware sound on. Help meh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchtower Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Hello there. First a congratz to Dragonhawk for getting his fan fic in the collectors edition In any case, I installed this game yesterday, and have been suffering major slowdown on the tactical screen, even with graphics down to minimum. I don't think this should be the case. Specs are:Pentium 4 2.8GHtz768 MB RAMATI Radeon x800XT Platinum Edition Card 256MBIntel D865 PERL MoboCreative Soundblaster 24bit 5.1 Now tell me, why do you think I'm suffering slowdown? Not only slowdown, but I have to turn on software sound as I have that problem with being unable to hear gunshots/steps etc with hardware sound on. Help meh!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> This slow down thing does Sound odd as mine is flying and my rig is getting on a bit. Also Its been as steady as a rock no crashes in about 30 Hours of Play since Sunday ( I Know I should get out more!!)AMD 1800512 MB Ram9700 pro card Service pack 2 - fully updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Welcome back Mouse! Long time no see No idea why you're getting slowdown issues. My rigs about as fast bar the gaphics cardso I've just cranked the graphiocs down quite a bit and it runs fine. It may be something to do with the game itself as a few people have mentioned crashes and this slowdown may be part of that problem, so it might possibly be sorted by the first patch being released by ALTAR shortly. Granted I'm clutching at straws, but I don;t see anyhting in your specs to be causing any slowdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted October 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Indeedy, long time no see - no internet access atm! Bleh. Well lets jope the patch comes out soon. I can't play properly! Any ETA at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 You can find some information on the patch here, but there's no solution on your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infael Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 I've a 128 MB Geforce card and 768 MN RAM. WOuld upgrading to a 256 MB card and/or 1G RAM make a diff? I had a major slowdown with 4 aliens converging on my 4 soldiers with a fire raging amongst us (from a phosphor grenade). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Maybe. It is most likely due to weaknesses in the physics engine of the game however, so you'll probably run it fine once the game has been patched. I do not know if the first patch will address this problem however... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infael Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 I turned off true color and sound. Seems to help when there are many enemies on the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted October 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 I was thinking driver issues might affect it? My slowdown happens during pretty much all tactical screen battle, from the moment it starts. It doesn't increase during battle, it just seems to miss regular clumps of frames. I suppose maybe slowdown is a bad word to describe it with. I've done some computer diagnostics, and all seems fine. Half-life 2 (incredibly demanding game) runs beautifully with details above the default. So I'm thinking there might be some kind of compatibility problems with my GFX drivers and the game? I haven't had the chance to update them in a while now. Any other suggestions at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchtower Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 I was thinking driver issues might affect it? My slowdown happens during pretty much all tactical screen battle, from the moment it starts. It doesn't increase during battle, it just seems to miss regular clumps of frames. I suppose maybe slowdown is a bad word to describe it with. I've done some computer diagnostics, and all seems fine. Half-life 2 (incredibly demanding game) runs beautifully with details above the default. So I'm thinking there might be some kind of compatibility problems with my GFX drivers and the game? I haven't had the chance to update them in a while now. Any other suggestions at all?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sound card driver conflict? Are you using a creative card? Firewall or other system tray prog? Antivirus prog? Try underclocking your graphics card that can help sometimes on this sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Also, try to choose software sound. It's been suggested at the official boards. You do it in the game options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Indeed - bizarrely I get more sound with software sound on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 I think someone might have found the solution. Take a look at this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted October 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Lol, aint that typical. I check that thread 5 mins before I come here to find a link to the same thread Defragging now Slaughter, I'll tell you how it goes. I'm not overly confident though. It's a SATA drive, so a bit of defragmentation shouldn't do this, but then computers can be funny sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted October 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 No joy, as slow as ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchtower Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 No joy, as slow as ever <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok you have a radeon card what drivers are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted October 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 The most recent ones - I'm not at home at the minute so I can't tell you off my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchtower Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 The most recent ones - I'm not at home at the minute so I can't tell you off my head.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> The most recent ones seem to have some issues for a lot of people. Rollback to some earlier ones and try underclocking your card. It may help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Jack Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Also if you are using LOS (line of site) it puts a major hit to the performance, at least on my system. I have a SB X-Fi but I will try the software sound and see if it helps the game smooth out a bit in LOS mode. I love that new feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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