Poor performance : please help !

[The_Replicator 0]

1/hi

I got a new pc in january

it has

Processor: AMD Athlon XP2600+ (toroughbred) 2.13Ghz

Chipset: VIA VT8375 ProSavageDDR KM266 (VIA Hyperion 4.45 drivers)

RAM: 512Mo PC2100 DDR SDRAM

Video: PNY GeForce4 Ti4200 64Mb DDR (41.09 drivers)

Sound: Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 (latest drivers)

OS: Windows XP Home + sp1

Screen : hp pavilion mx70

HDD: 80Go

i can't play UT2003

1024*768*32,all details full and a few bots : 30-45 fps

UT2003 inbuilt benchmark results:

Flyby : 108,... fps

Botmatch : 46,... fps

XP2000+ performance ...!!!!!!!!!

Q3A 170 FPS same settings

in OFP i dont know my fps but im sur eit can run MUCH BETTER

1024*768*32,details full,fps full,terrain detail normal,visibility a bit more than 1600,object shadows off,vehicle shadows on,blood on,cloudlets on,Hardware T&L,Wbuffer off

the game is not always fluid when i look around

2/when i play with a AA soldier (east) i get this message

picture equip/m/m_9k32launcher.paa not found

then i click ok and i can use the strela launcher

PLEASE HELP

[theavonlady 2]

First the easy part:

Search The FAQ for "strella".

Next the hard part:

Search The FAQ for "stutter", "lag", "performance" and "terrain setting". Also search for "joystick".

[The_Replicator 0]

oh so theres no way i can fix the stralla message?

my terrain setting was always on "normal" so my PC should be able to handle that !!!! and UT2003!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have the latest VIA drivers they didnt solve it and i dont use a jostick..

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (The_Replicator @ Mar. 02 2003,13:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">oh so theres no way i can fix the stralla message?<span id='postcolor'>

Some say patch 1.91 beta resolved this.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">my terrain setting was always on "normal" so my PC should be able to handle that !!!! and UT2003!!!!!!!!!!!!!<span id='postcolor'>

OK.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i have the latest VIA drivers they didnt solve it and i dont use a jostick..<span id='postcolor'>

Any other peripherals connected or defined? Scanners? Gamepads?

[theavonlady 2]

Did you read the first FAQ item matching "input delay" and review the Detonator settings mentioned there?

[The_Replicator 0]

a printer

and the power for the hole PC passes trough the subwoofer (subwoofer cable into plug and the PC cable into subwoofer)

and also a ADSL modem but it has its own power supply)

FPS

desert island with 1 group of M1A1 and 1 group of Rangers

70-80 FPS

Battlefields Single mission

10 FPS

Clean sweep

35 FPS

Ground attack II

25-50 FPS

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[theavonlady 2]

How strong is the PC's own power supply unit?

[The_Replicator 0]

i looked in it theres no sticker on the power supply cant find out

[theavonlady 2]

What about my question above on Detonator settings?

[The_Replicator 0]

that option is not in my GF4 control pannel :-/

ill get rivatuner in a minute

[The_Replicator 0]

its not in rivatuner,but i brought down prerendering to 1,ran it withouht HW T&L,took off FSAA

same performance...

made power go directly into PC by removing the subwoofer tiny bit better

...........

[The_Replicator 0]

?!?

[killswitch 19]

Hi Rep!  Ok, lets have a look at this...

CPU/memory:

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You said you felt you were getting "XP2000+ performance" and that had me thinking... Have you set your

computer/motherboard to run your XP2600+ as an actual XP2600+, ie at 16x133 MHz = 2.13 GHz.

It could be that the CPU/motherboard is set to a 100 MHz FSB (Front side bus). This would make your CPU be

clocked at 16x100 = 1600 MHz which makes it run like a "slow XP1900+" (I say slow since the real 1900+ runs on 12x133).

Also, the memory would then work like PC1600 DDR memory and not PC2100.

AGP

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Fiddle with the BIOS settings and set the AGP to 4x (it may be set to 2x or even 1x). Might give a bit better perf.

Also, you may want to try enabling Fast Writes if that option is available. FW can be tricky though, needing a good,

stable power supply to work without causing crashes. Try it, and be glad if it works.

Sound card

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I too have a Fortissimo III. You wrote "(latest drivers)"... drivers being a "moving target", the statement "latest drivers"

means nothing. I have the 6.09 driver package which have the Hercules v.4101 drivers, and they "work" (Well, EAX in

OFP is FUBAR on all non-Creative cards, but thats a subject for a whole separate thread, I believe... ;-)

On UT 2003: The FIII, sadly, has no hardware accelerated OpenAL driver, so UT2k3 and other OpenAL using games lose performance there.

(AFAIK, only Creative Labs cards and nVidias nForce-sound chips have HW OpenAL drivers at this time.)

OFP itself

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Well, the usual tweaking tips apply, such as lowering the terrain detail a notch or two (from Normal to Low or even Very Low),

lowering the view distance.

Shadows eat fps - try disabling them. Keep cloudlets, though, for the explosions.

Keep using HW T&L. That should work best.

That and what Avon has in her FAQ should help you get OFP working better.

Regards!