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Offline paulieb

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AH and DX 9 compliance (attn HT or Skuzzy)
« on: February 05, 2003, 07:41:46 PM »
I recently bought a racing sim that ships with and requires DX9. All of my other games have no problem with this except AH. My framerates suck down to 2 or 3 fps and netstatus goes nuts. If it makes any difference, specs as follows:
AMD XP 1800+, ASUS A7V-333 mobo, 256 meg DDR 2700 ram, ASUS 8420 GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/128 meg DDR, SBLive! 5.1, Win98SE.

Although I am in a squad and everything, I really can't justify having to reinstall DX everytime I want to play AH, as good as it is. (And AH is very, VERY good)

I realize that you want to keep a fairly tight lid on AH2 until it's actually released, but will it be DX9 compliant? I really hope so... I've gone and gotten hooked on this sim and don't want to have to stay away.
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2003, 08:26:57 PM »
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I recently bought a racing sim that ships with and requires DX9. All of my other games have no problem with this except AH. My framerates suck down to 2 or 3 fps and netstatus goes nuts. If it makes any difference, specs as follows:
AMD XP 1800+, ASUS A7V-333 mobo, 256 meg DDR 2700 ram, ASUS 8420 GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/128 meg DDR, SBLive! 5.1, Win98SE.


it's *not* DX9 that's causing you any problem, nor is it the vid carrd.

i have a puny 333 PII (but with a radeon 64md ddr vivo card) and i've walked up dx versions, now on DX9 (offically released ones) and i'm getting at best around 30-40 fps, it'll drop down to teens if i'm low near deck with multiple cons or around bases/towns.

what i have is borderline playable and your system blows mine out of the water.

there's no overt reason why you're getting unplayable frame rates, but there *is* a reason, you just have to find it.

i think you might be trying to run AH at a different resolution than your desktop?

or have you got the most recommended nvida drivers (you can search the boards for the ones recommended)?

you could also try and delete the video7.cfg file from your AH settings folder and let AH redetect your video card.
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2003, 09:58:26 PM »
Well, more news. It's not just AH, but every game I own that runs under Direct 3D. looks like it's off to the shop with it.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2003, 10:02:18 PM »
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Well, more news. It's not just AH, but every game I own that runs under Direct 3D. looks like it's off to the shop with it.


well if it's not a setting on the vid card that's screwing you over, it might be a bad card...
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2003, 10:42:27 AM »
Have you tried reinstalling your video drivers?

I also use Dx9, and have no probs in AH or any of the few games I have tried so far.

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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2003, 01:40:48 PM »
Well, I went back to DX 8.1, and started troubleshooting. It appears that the DX 9 install did something funky to my sound card. Un-and-re-installed sound card and drivers, and the problem is much less now, but still sorta there. Sounds are no longer stuttering, but video is a bit. I'm just about out of ideas though.
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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2003, 12:26:06 PM »
Run in command line -- DXDIAG


Start - Run --DXDIAG

Then see if tests out ok-
might show what other probs are
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« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2003, 01:59:27 PM »
I am running allmost the same system like u just with a DFI motherboard. And the smaller 64 MB Ti4200 video card.

My average frames are around 80. some times going down to 60 with mayn cons around.

I had problems with DX 9.0 myself. Got stutters like hell.
I went back to 8.1 now.

Make sure u have the newest nvidia drivers. 41.09 is the last official release. DONT use any beta drivers.

Make sure u have ur Onboard soundcard disabled.
U have to do it with the jumper on the board and in the BIOS.

If u have a VIA chipset on ur mobo make sure u download the latest VIA 4in1 driver.

Make sure u have the newest creative driver loaded.

Make sure u have ur soundacceleration down to 75%
To check it   Start ---> run--->dxdiag---> sound tab
Set the slider to 75%

I am pretty sure its a bad driver configuration that causing ur trouble.
I could be bad hardware tho but i dont think so.
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« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2003, 05:01:08 AM »
Ok, here's what wound up happening... I used the web installer of DX 9... bad idea. I don't know how, but when I installed it that way, my IRQ's got reassigned so that my sound and vid cards were both on IRQ 11. So, into the BIOS I go... cards are on separate IRQ's, but still bad stutters... hmmm. Found a full version download of DX 9 and new WHQL but beta drivers, installed both. POOF! Problem gone. I have spoken to a few other folks who had the same or similar problems with Microsoft's web installer version of DX 9 and told them to do what I did. 6 out of 7 fixed it.
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