Author Topic: Disco while attacking towns  (Read 277 times)

Offline sulley88

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Disco while attacking towns
« on: January 12, 2006, 02:57:07 PM »
Hope someone has some tips on this as I'm getting very tired of it.

Scenario is as follows:

Fly to a town (any plane), first pass bomb or strafe no problem, second or third pass Rubber Bullets, third or fourth pass, Host Lost Connection, game crashes.

I have have turned off what I can in the background, new video drivers, lowered res, memory, no anti-aliasing etc, as I assumed it was graphics related.

Std frame rate is well over 100fps, drops to some 40-50 overa town or in complex tree laden areas.  Flying NOE to the target is no problem, graphically, just after getting there, the above happens and it ruddy annoying.

I read somewhere about VSYNC helping to stop Rubber Bullets, is this true and may this help with the above problem.

I have also toned down the sound hardware accel to 3/4 as I read in one post.

The problem has been there off and on since installing on new PC I think, I have a AMD64 3500, 6600GT video and Audigy2 sound.

The only other thing I haven't nutted out is the net traffic and process activity thing, any tips or tools for getting to the bottom of this would be greatly appreciated.

Offline The Fugitive

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Disco while attacking towns
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2006, 08:35:00 PM »
Ping Plotter is a great free program for checking your ping times and packet lose to the HTC servers. Very easy to use.

Run dxdiag "start/Run/dxdiag" and post a copy of it here. Some of these guys spot stuff real well from those, as well as a ping plot.

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Disco while attacking towns
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2006, 08:43:26 PM »
and make sure you are spyware/malware free as well......

free checker located here:

http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/

also, look/search for tips by Silat, he has made numerous post for tips on cleaning up Windows XP and posted alot of free software links or sites that help, including tips sites that will walk u thru cleaning up Windows XP

just a thought..............

also having vsync turned on is rumored as helping better than havinf vsync off as for true FPS in the game, with vsync off it will throw up HIGH FPS numbers verses it being on......
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Disco while attacking towns
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2006, 08:46:32 AM »
from what i've read here, you should have vsync enabled.

recently i started getting some ctd's and installed this driver for my audigy2 sound card. it seemed to help. also  if you use voice, check to see if wave in is checked


http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?sOSName=Windows+XP®ion=1&Product_Name=Audigy+2+Value&Product_ID=10653&modelnumber=&driverlang=1033&OS=10&drivertype=1&Image4.x=26&Image4.y=13
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Offline sulley88

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Disco while attacking towns
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2006, 02:38:35 PM »
Cheers for the tips guys, getting the sound driver now. Did the other bits except for trolling thru XP services crud. Will turn on VSYNC and install the sound drivers and see what happens