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Offline rodak

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« on: September 17, 2007, 11:15:12 AM »
Hi all.  I just wanted to say goodbye to all my aces high friends for the time being as it seems my computer just can't run smooth enough to fly with yas anymore.  Hopefully I'll be able to get a faster machine in the future but until then I just gotta call it quits because when your biggest enemy becomes frame rates instead of other planes it just gets frustrating to fly.

A big to all my aces high friends... You all know who you are and it's been great fun     :)


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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2007, 11:45:11 AM »
I always hated getting 2 FR when going on mass missions, that's why I updated ny video card the the Nvidia GeForce 9200 GS :D .

I like everyone alwas says "You'll be back, They always come back"
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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 01:52:10 PM »
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I like everyone alwas says "You'll be back, They always come back"


Talon says that.
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 03:45:58 PM »
You'll be missed, I hope you get back in here!  

<> to a friend and former squaddie.
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Re: Time to call it quits
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2007, 03:46:03 PM »
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Originally posted by rodak
Hi all.  I just wanted to say goodbye to all my aces high friends for the time being as it seems my computer just can't run smooth enough to fly with yas anymore.  Hopefully I'll be able to get a faster machine in the future but until then I just gotta call it quits because when your biggest enemy becomes frame rates instead of other planes it just gets frustrating to fly.

A big to all my aces high friends... You all know who you are and it's been great fun     :)


jeff


Before you quit outright. What kind of setup do you have.
Perhaps we can tweak it
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Offline kilz

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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2007, 03:51:06 PM »
theres always room for tweakin :aok
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Offline rodak

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« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2007, 05:37:35 PM »
intel pentium 3 at 1ghz  ati 9600xt 128 mb agp slot graphics card and 512 mb of ram running windows xp is the basic info guys.  the machine is a dell xps b1000r that I bought back in 2001 if I remember correctly.
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« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2007, 05:39:57 PM »
Thanks for the kind words Karaya, hopefully I'll be back sometime.  I might even give it another shot after I reformat.
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« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2007, 05:48:24 PM »
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Thanks for the kind words Karaya, hopefully I'll be back sometime.  I might even give it another shot after I reformat.
You still have my email?  I'll PM it to you.   Keep in touch.
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« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2007, 05:56:18 PM »
Have you tried the lowest settings you can possibly have? :D
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« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2007, 06:04:31 PM »
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intel pentium 3 at 1ghz  ati 9600xt 128 mb agp slot graphics card and 512 mb of ram running windows xp is the basic info guys.  the machine is a dell xps b1000r that I bought back in 2001 if I remember correctly.


Before I got my now out of date screamer.  

I played for 3 years with a:

800 Mhz P3
384 MB PC133 RAM
GeForce DDR/DVI

I had XP Pro and found that SP 2 added 4 Processes.   I kept the Processes at 14 with AH running with SP1.

I also used Drivers from 2003 in the archive.
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« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2007, 06:41:58 PM »
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intel pentium 3 at 1ghz  ati 9600xt 128 mb agp slot graphics card and 512 mb of ram running windows xp is the basic info guys.  the machine is a dell xps b1000r that I bought back in 2001 if I remember correctly.


One issue with older Dells are their proprietary motherboards, which means most others won't fit their case. You are probably limited to a 2X AGP slot, maybe a 4X at best. Naturally, that old gal won't have a PCI Express slot either. You 9600XT card is designed to utilize an 8X AGP slot, so your MB is the choke point. At the least, you should consider adding another 512 MB of RAM.

Another option is to dump the Dell MB and case, buy a new MB (with 8X AGP slot) and P4 processor. You can move all the drives, sound and video cards to a new case (with at least a 400 watt power supply). That is probably the least expensive upgrade I can think of that can get you back into the game. Any computer shop can do this for a few hundred dollars. I did exactly this with my wife's 2002 Dell. I can run AH2 on it with a frame rate limited only by the refresh rate of the monitor.

My regards,

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« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2007, 06:50:06 PM »
yes widewing it's a 2x agp slot and I'm maxed out at 512 on the ram.  This box has that rambus rd ram.
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« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2007, 06:52:25 PM »
I'm at 15 processes right now karaya and I have everythin in game set for speed avaro.
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« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2007, 07:38:18 PM »
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I'm at 15 processes right now karaya and I have everything in game set for speed avaro.
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