This is here cause gunnery is something that comes up often in game play discussions.
I have been having no end of troubles with gunnery in the last 2 months.
At the con I watched a guy with a Voodoo2 card play a way smoother game than my Geforce DDR can display. My frame rates are great but there is lots of stutering.
I wondered if there was a relation to my drop in gunnery?
I ran a program called Sandra to evaluate my system to try to find if my problem was not related to a bad slump or side effects of changes to the game.(My accuracy is about 1/3rd what it was).
I found that even though my HD is a brand new IBM 7200 rpm drive my benchmark was slow.
I also found that Sandra thought my memory was set to fast for its rating.
In lookeing at my harddrive in control panel system. It said I was running in dos compatible mode. It told me to look in my config.sys for dos drivers that win 98 does not recocognize. The only thing I found was a ASUS cdrom driver so I commented it out, set my drive to netserver and DMA and rebooted.
My disc benchmark doubled.
I had overclocked my 566 celeron to 708. In order to try and address the memory too fast message I throtteled back my proccessor one notch to 640 or so.
I had never had any stability probs.
Well one of those two things made an imediate difference in AH.
I feel that my accurracy is allready more predictable and hopefully more accurate. When I look over my wing and roll the ground no longer stutters.
I think the over clock thing was a real big deal. I think that is primarily what caused me to not be able to predictably shoot.
It is unlikly that anyone out there is having exactly the issue I was. But I hope that I can save one other person the frustration that I have had enjoying this game.
When you shoot at someone and are shure that something should hit. And nothing does. And behavior repeates over and over. He is probably not cheating. It is probably not the game unless it happens to everyone. Look at your system.
Once again I know this was a hardware thread but I hope someone can benifit from my experiance.
