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Title: very bad frame rates
Post by: mvjester2112 on August 08, 2004, 10:05:15 PM
This will be for whoever can help me.. I would really appreciate it..
   This is what i have on my comp..  Compaq presario 5000, it has a 700 mghz amd duron processer, 576 mb of ram, 20 gig hard drive and a 128mb G-force4mx 4000 (nvidia) graphics card.. Now this is my problem, I use DSL extreme with ethernet and in the CT i get a frame rate that bounces from 50 to 0... in the air its gets up to 50 and when i start to dog fight it drops to 10.. when i am on the cv it drops to 4 and 0... it has been doing this since the last 4 downloads for the game.. will someone please help me out, it is getting frustrating:mad:
Everything in the game is set for performance and ground affects is set to 0.5.. i dont know what else to do and i am banging my head against the wall... help help help  :(
Title: very bad frame rates
Post by: FOGOLD on August 09, 2004, 01:07:33 AM
I'm afraid your system will be borderline on the minimum specs for AH II.
Title: Sys. Req.
Post by: CYLONN on August 09, 2004, 01:09:06 AM
Sounds like your CPU and graphics card are at the low end of the scale for min. requirements to play.  You need to upgrade your video card, even then, I'm not sure your processor  is capable.
Title: very bad frame rates
Post by: mvjester2112 on August 09, 2004, 10:51:05 AM
on the specs for game it says 32m video card and p850 or better..  maybe i just need a better processor cause its lower than a 850... my vid card should be ok it game requires a 32m.
Title: very bad frame rates
Post by: OOZ662 on August 10, 2004, 04:41:29 AM
Aww MAN, I had one of those.  Best little computer I've ever had.  :D And then I installed a water cooling system wrong and the prossesor melted the motherboard to the case. Oops. Well, that was before AH.


Anyway, the minimum requirements are bull, so don't listen to em.
Title: very bad frame rates
Post by: Ohio330 on August 10, 2004, 08:22:16 AM
Don;t always rely on what any game company suggests as the minimum specs.  Iv'e found that the Minimum means that it will
load up.  I am running a Athlon 1800 and Radeon 9600 128MB card, and 1.5 Gig internal memory, and I classify my system
as "barely functional" for this game.  I average (in far view- F1)
around 27 F.P.S. and in short view, F3, about 50 F.P.S.
Title: very bad frame rates
Post by: MOSQ on August 10, 2004, 05:19:59 PM
If you upgrade your processor, you may have a playable game. The best would be all new MOBO/CPU/Memory.
That may not be in the cards for you. Another option is a PowerLeap processor upgrade. I've done three of these in the past, and am now playing AHII with the Celron 1.4 upgrade to my old P3-600e system.
See www.powerleap.com (http://www.powerleap.com)

PL-AXP
Socket A Adaptor
 
The PL-AXP™ is PowerLeap’s first foray into the world of AMD Athlon upgrades. It is an economical upgrade adapter kit that allows you to upgrade older AMD Athlon/Duron-based systems to the latest AMD Athlon XP CPUs. The front side bus of the system no longer being a factor. This is accomplished by altering the multiplier while leaving the FSB the same. This method of “Right-Clocking” allows 200 MHz FSB systems to use a 400 MHz FSB based CPU and still operate at full speed. By increasing the multiplier the same overall speed can be attained..
Title: Re: very bad frame rates
Post by: Roscoroo on August 10, 2004, 10:27:12 PM
Quote
Originally posted by mvjester2112
This will be for whoever can help me.. I would really appreciate it..
   This is what i have on my comp..  Compaq presario 5000, it has a 700 mghz amd duron processer, 576 mb of ram, 20 gig hard drive and a 128mb G-force4mx 4000 (nvidia) graphics card.. Now this is my problem, I use DSL extreme with ethernet and in the CT i get a frame rate that bounces from 50 to 0... in the air its gets up to 50 and when i start to dog fight it drops to 10.. when i am on the cv it drops to 4 and 0... it has been doing this since the last 4 downloads for the game.. will someone please help me out, it is getting frustrating:mad:
Everything in the game is set for performance and ground affects is set to 0.5.. i dont know what else to do and i am banging my head against the wall... help help help  :(


id say your cpu ic the bottle neck.

i wonder if you could get away with a 2400+ athlon in it ?

 im shure a 1.3 t bird would work ok  , Just dont get a 1.4-1.6 duron applebred they are junk!!!   the morgans are alot better and more stable .