Slowing down

[beno_83au 1369]

Whenever I am playing ofp it will begin to slow down and run jerky after a bit of playing, especially if the map has a lot of scripting in it. The game starts out fine, but after a while I am left with having to wait a few minutes just to exit back to the main menu. I've never brought it up before because I thought it was just the amount of addons I had, but moveing them out of there has done nothing. Does anyone know what is going on or how to fix it?

[Lt_Damage 0]

When you exit it is clearing all the swap file space it was using, so the hard drive grinds for a while. It also dumps the program out of memory.. so theres a bit of shifting going on no matter what computer you have.

Obviously not as noticeable on the faster ones..

[Mister Frag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Lt_Damage @ Oct. 20 2002,22:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Obviously not as noticeable on the faster ones..<span id='postcolor'>

Or if you have plenty of physical memory...

[Placebo 29]

Beno try posting your system specs if you want people to help

[beno_83au 1369]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (placebo @ Oct. 21 2002,12:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Beno try posting your system specs if you want people to help <span id='postcolor'>

That's one thing I should have done, but didn't

P3 733mhz, 128mb RAM, 32mb TNT2, DirectX 8, Win98SE, 12.7 Gig HDD.

And I have played OFP on my friend's pc which is a P4 1.5ghz plus whatever else and there was not much slowdown at all and unlike mine, it didn't seem to gradually get worse and worse.

[Necromancer- 0]

may be the RAM is the problem.

If possible, put another 128MB RAM module in it.

[beno_83au 1369]

I was thinking that today. I'll have to put more in soon, or whenever I get the money and don't spend it.

[Placebo 29]

Harsh but your whole system is getting a bit dated you need to ask Santa for an upgrade Even adding another 128mb will still leave you on the fairly low side, 512mb in there and Opf is very happy

[beno_83au 1369]

Lol, a bit dated? Only a bit? Yeah but I don't think I'll be upgrading the whole thing until mid next year. I'm going into the army soon and that will be plenty to keep me busy for a while, so I'll wait and see. Mabye I'll get a brand new one just in time for OFP2?

[Placebo 29]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Beno @ Oct. 23 2002,04:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Lol, a bit dated? Only a bit?<span id='postcolor'>

I was trying to be nice

If you don't have plans to upgrade at present see about throwing another 256mb or so of Ram in there, you should notice the difference

[beno_83au 1369]

Ok, ok, my PC is worse that a bit out dated, but I will try that RAM. Only problem is I've got about $60Aus to play with for the next week so I'll have to save!!

[Placebo 29]

Well buy the ram this week and save the hooker, drugs & cheap booze for next week

[beno_83au 1369]

Shhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Guest]

he said it starts out fine but goes crappy

ram shouldnt be a real big problem, considering it works ok t 1st

possibly fade kicking in?

When I went to 1.2, fade kept kicking in(not the most accurate system), so after some looking, i found a way to dis-able fade. Some system configurations/softwear configurations may make fade kick in on older OFP versions.

[Placebo 29]

128mb is the absolute bare minimum to get the thing working, yes it will start ok, as time progresses more and more things get shoved into the ram, it gets full up, more and more swap file access is needed, it slows things down. Windows is bad at freeing up ram that is no longer in use, especially non NT based versions of windows, using win9x/me and 128mb of ram in Opf is pretty much asking for trouble.

[DanAK47 1]

My PC does this too. Before I explain let me post my specs, so the effect will be more.. surprising.

Intel P4 2.4ghz

128mb GeForce4 Ti4400

256mb RAM

40 gig HD

Windows XP Home (Hey.. Wasn't my choice.)

Now I get better framerates, but when I go to exit, the damn thing practically locks up. It takes a good minute for the game to actually exit, and after a couple intense cooperative missions it even takes a long time to exit the MP system and get back to the main menu. Now on my old computer:

Intel P3 800mhz

128mb GeForce4 Ti4400 (in new PC now)

640mb RAM (upgraded after playing OFP for a while - still wasn't this bad back with 128mb)

Windows 98

ALT TABing out was virtually instantaneous as was exiting the game. No slow-downs after time, whereabouts with the new computer I have to restart to even get a decent framerate.

XP seems to be slowing EVERYTHING down. Virtually every program, despite having a 3x faster processor running it, has more "slow" periods and takes longer to start up. Multitasking doesn't seem to work too well either.

Dan

[Mister Frag 0]

XP has once again nothing to do with it.

You explained very nicely why a lack of physical RAM is the problem -- OFP runs fine with 640MB of RAM, but not with 256MB.

It's not FADE, and it isn't the fact that it is XP. The slowdown is caused by the OS constantly having to swap stuff in and out of memory.

[ralphwiggum 6]

i have 750MhzAMD, GF2 MX, and 372MB RAM. OFP/OFPR runs ok, if i keep all settings low.

[DanAK47 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You explained very nicely why a lack of physical RAM is the problem -- OFP runs fine with 640MB of RAM, but not with 256MB.<span id='postcolor'>

Like I said, I played OFP on the 800mhz with 128mb RAM, and it did not slow down this much.

[Placebo 29]

Opf or Opf:R?

Have you updated all your Bios, drivers, firmware, etc. etc. for your current system? It's more than possible something there is causing problems.

[Mister Frag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DanAK47 @ Oct. 26 2002,23:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You explained very nicely why a lack of physical RAM is the problem -- OFP runs fine with 640MB of RAM, but not with 256MB.<span id='postcolor'>

Like I said, I played OFP on the 800mhz with 128mb RAM, and it did not slow down this much.<span id='postcolor'>

But you have since applied patches, added a few Addons, and possibly installed Resistance. Your minimum system requirements have changed.

[160th(SOAR)LoNeWoLF 0]

Hey beno member me? anyways you probably dont have enuf RAM, mien does that too if i try to do too many things at once on it....

[beno_83au 1369]

Ive got Resistance now, but I have had OFP since it first came out in Australia, which was just after Europe I think. Have applied all the patches and user made addons, and I figured it was them so I moved the addons out but still no better, and having updated through each patch, I still got them same problem, but I guess it is just my system specs, cause it runs fine on my friends:

P4 1.5ghz 256/512 RAM cant remember what, 64mb geforce 2? i think, big HDD.

So mabye if I get more work before I go for basic I'll buy some RAM, but its not that high on my list at the moment, just have to wait and see.

[DanAK47 1]

Frag - nope. Even when I first installed OFP on this computer and played around with it, it didn't ALT TAB and exit nearly as quickly as it did on the 800mhz with 128mb of RAM and Windows 98.

[KDog35 0]

My computer slows down also when there's alot of action going on in the game. I have 1.1 speed, 512 ram, geforce 32mb, 20HD. But I was searching the forum on this and Suma mentioned a "re-rendering", and that's what will slow the computer down. But he mentioned a way to change that, but not too, unless you know what your doing.

Is there an easy way to change the re-rendering? If so, please explain. KDog--