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[AKFokerFoder+]

Originally posted by Zazen13
Foder, I have almost the same set-up as you do. I had similiar issues but I switched from the ATI drviers to the newest Omega drivers and it's all better, my framerates are an average of 25% better in all situations now as well.

Zazen

I did try the Omega 5.12 drivers, and all the problems came back.

I went back to the 4.12 ATI drivers and all runs sweet.

I have the latest BIOS on a MicroStar mobo, and I use a PCIE slot for the video card.

[Zwerg]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Zwerg, verify you are using the NVidia 61.77 drivers.  Later drivers for the FX5xxx series will cause stutters/pauses/freezes to occur.

Agree Skuzzy. Made the experience with later drivers long time ago and went back to 61.76 (Win98).
I run 1024x768, texture size 128, performance sliders on default.

[AKFokerFoder+]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
More complex than that Max.  You can preload textures with 512MB of system RAM, but you need to reduce the maximum texture size to 256 if you also want skins.

Fokker, what you just provided may help.  Also Fokker, make sure you are not preloading to the video card.

Check your email, I have sent you the following:

DX Diag dump text file.

Screen shot of Task Manager just before I open the game.

Screen shots of the three video setting screens in AH.

If you want I will reload the 5.9 ATI drivers (couldn't get AH to run on ATI 5.12 drivers now that I think of it), and the Omega 5.12 drivers were no better.

Anyway, I can reload the 5.9 ATI or Omega 5.12 (or both) and send you all of the same information as above.

I know you are as anxious as we are to solve this

[AKDogg]

Foder, did u do what i told u to check the other night.  CPU-Z and see if your FSB is running where it should.  If U have 3 sticks of memory in a Nforce 3 250 chipset it will declock the fsb no matter what u do to compinsate for the memory load of the 3 cards.  In that sence your system will seriously slow down considerably.  My system was faster with 2 sticks of 512meg cards each then it was with 3 sticks.  Read the book on the chipset and aparently if U fill all 3 memory slots on that chipset, the memory controller will slow it down to half the rated speed.  In order for me to get more ram and keep the spees, I have to get 1 gig cards and only use 2 slots.

[Kev367th]

If you are using a Venice (AMD 64's only) or later core you can manually force the FSB to the correct speed.
The limit was based more on the older AMD memory controller, than a limit based on the mobo chipset.
The BIOS just automatically decreases it based on the older AMD memory controller, but you can force it to the correct speed with later BIOS updates.
Only downside is you may have to run a 2T command rate (varies on chipset/mobo/memory/cpu).

[AKDogg]

tried that, no joy.

[Tilt]

Originally posted by Zwerg
Agree Skuzzy. Made the experience with later drivers long time ago and went back to 61.76 (Win98).
I run 1024x768, texture size 128, performance sliders on default.

zwerg is running win98

I refer to this thread

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158362&highlight=tilt


where skuzzy said............

I would disable fast writes as it can cause stability isses and does not really provide any performance gains for AGP4X/8X cards.

Your biggest issue Tilt is Windows 98 poor memory management once it gets past 256MB of RAM. XP corrects that and should provide you with higher levels of performance.

and he was right

[AKFokerFoder+]

Originally posted by MwDogg
Foder, did u do what i told u to check the other night.  CPU-Z and see if your FSB is running where it should.  If U have 3 sticks of memory in a Nforce 3 250 chipset it will declock the fsb no matter what u do to compinsate for the memory load of the 3 cards.  In that sence your system will seriously slow down considerably.  My system was faster with 2 sticks of 512meg cards each then it was with 3 sticks.  Read the book on the chipset and aparently if U fill all 3 memory slots on that chipset, the memory controller will slow it down to half the rated speed.  In order for me to get more ram and keep the spees, I have to get 1 gig cards and only use 2 slots.

Yes, I did the CPUZ program, and it said that all was well.

Thanks for the tip, CPUZ is a nice program!