Author Topic: Help please... (Read 237 times)

Puff · « **on:** August 20, 2004, 10:34:07 AM »

Ok... First I'm gonna list my system specs then I'll tell you the problem.

P4 1.8ghz
512 mg RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mg. Video
Sound Blaster 5.1 Studio Live Sound Card

Here is what I am experiancing.. and this is with the detail setting at thier lowest point.

The game will run fine for about 30 seconds. At that time my FPS will fall through the floor and the game will jerk for a few seconds at some points freezing the screen for up to a second at a time.

Of course looking up at the sky it runs find and looking down into the cockpit it runs fine.

But my main problem is when I'm engaged with a con at close range.

Once I get within 1000k of a con everything goes to crap. Once I'm in range it pretty much becomes a spray and pray situation because the game play isn't smooth enough to really aim.

On a cold boot up the game runs a small percentage better..
I also ran a defrag (26% fragmentation) which helped a little as well.

I was wondering if there is something I haven't looked at.. something that would still cause this to happen..

Any Ideas?

Roscoroo · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2004, 11:34:37 AM »

is something robbing your system resources ???

or it could be a virus / spyware or some other thing like that .

ad aware from lavasoft works pritty good for me for getting rid of that spyware junk .

it could be a hardware software thing also
try turning down your sound excelleration one notch .

Puff · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2004, 12:08:28 PM »

how would I go about turning down this sound thing you speak of??

Charon · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2004, 01:46:54 PM »

What Roscoroo said (spyware/virus).

Charon

Edbert · « **Reply #4 on:** August 20, 2004, 03:22:15 PM »

It might not be a virus, it might be your antivirus. AV software should be disabled during gaming sessions IMHO.

Try running MSCONFIG and starting up with just about everything disabled, it will empty out your taskbar too. Also check taskmanager and see how many processes are running, you should not have more than 15 or so, give or take a few. I have 12 on mine for gaming.

Ohio330 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 23, 2004, 10:21:01 AM »

Are you running the game with the SB live drivers,
or just the generic drivers that windows installs for you?
If you are running all the fancy drivers, this robs your
CPU rescources considerably. Try removing the drivers
for this, and reboot..let windows assign its own drivers.