Can someone verify this ?

[eskimo jackson 0]

sofar it is something i only encountered in search and destroy and red dawn: the game degrades to a slide show for moments and loading a saved game or retrying takes ages.

is that only due to the massive action going on in counterstrike and the chopper in red dawn ? or is my system all of a sudden buggered ?

if it is the high demand resource wise .. what would you suggest me to upgrade ?

got P3 500 , 128megs RAM , geforce2 mx 400 ...

(apperently very slow HD only 6mb ... dont know what type or producer as this computer isnt mine and was a prebuild ibm aptiva 2721)

[Placebo 29]

Immediate things you want to look at upgrading are ram (you really want at least double) and CPU (again doubling that to a 1ghz would help) of course increasimg the ram is a much cheaper option but won't bring about the gains a new CPU would bring, but then upgrading the CPU may mean you need a new case and motherboard

[Mister Frag 0]

128MB is very little for playing OFP, your system is probably swapping to and from virtual memory.

I bet if you added at least 128MB (or better yet 256MB), you wouldn't have that problem.

[ALDEGA 0]

Adding RAM is one thing, but a faster cpu is required too. Lot's of missions do not run fine on my Athlon 650 when there are too many ai units (alive). After I've 'terminated' a bunch of AI, the framerate will go to a normal level.

[Greg 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ALDEGA @ Mar. 15 2002,07:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Adding RAM is one thing, but a faster cpu is required too. Lot's of missions do not run fine on my Athlon 650 when there are too many ai units (alive). After I've 'terminated' a bunch of AI, the framerate will go to a normal level.<span id='postcolor'>

You're not wrong, even my athlon 1.2 doubles in performance once I've terminated a bunch of badies.

[ALDEGA 0]

The AI is probably the most cpu cycle consuming part of this game :-/

[hannun 0]

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Your cpu isn't powerwful enough to run op and your's MX is the worst. If I were you i'd go shopping. My AMD 1100 GE Force 256 DDR runs fine OP,on 1280 x 1024 resolution.

[Placebo 29]

I disagree, if he's on a budget then the things to upgrade are (in order) ram, cpu then gf2 mx, it's not a great card but it will do the job fairly well, the way Opf is designed it seems to take advantage more of cpu and ram than video card, sure a fast video card will help boost things but it's not going to help much if it's being slowed down by an old cpu or a lack of ram

[ALDEGA 0]

His GF2MX is the fastest available GF2MX version. It's not the problem, OF's gfx aren't thát demanding. I'd upgrade RAM/CPU first.