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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: texace on May 22, 2002, 09:06:38 PM
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Well...went out and bought this game today, hoping I'd finally get a chance to play my favorite game of all time, get home and install it, fire it up, and...
IT CHUGS TO ALL HELL!!!
My machine is an AMD Athlon 1GHz, with 256 RAM and an nVidia TNT2 32MB video card, and the game still chugs. I reinstalled Dx8.1 twice...ran defrag, reinstalled the game twice, and still no improvement, even with minimal draw distance and 640 mode...
Is there anything I can do?
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I was about to buy it, tell me more ...review, anything
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Well...it's a great game, but I need a fix to fix this damn stuttering...it's like the damn thing's running on a 450MHz...
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TNT 2 is quite old vid-card.
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tnt2 was good on a 450mhz... you are 3 generations behind with that card...
SKurj
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Texace
You'd better try to remove all Microsoft Office programms from Startup group (like findfast etc) and try to hide internet connection monitor from task tray. Disable anti-virus monitors as well as other programms in memory that could slow down your computer.
Sometime it helps.
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So how would you think this system will ran
WinXp
256Ram Pc2700
Xp2000+
Gf4 4400
SBLive 5.1
(Showing off my system)
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Just fine, Russian...better than mine.
I was hoping that I'd get out without buying a new card...guess not...DAMN!
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well guessing its playstation port (wich means it was made for the ps2 and the pc version is emulated), and the ps2 has a better video card than a tnt2... you are lucky it runs at all
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I got an 1.7 Mhz comp with an TNT2 in it... i Will try the game when i get home and let u know how it runs...
Regards.
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No computer as of this date that has over 800Mhz of cpu power should have a TNT2 display card if it's used for gaming.
It's exactly like putting a yugo carburetor to a 1500 horsepower chevy big block and then wondering why you can't do that 1/4 mile as fast as the others.
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Look, I know that...I was going off what the box recommended.
I know the TNT2 is out of date...but I can't afford to buy a new one...unless some of you have a spare GeForce 2 lying aorund I could buy...I'm SOL...
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call me dumb but is GTA3 out for the PC now?
ive lived in a cave for the past month.. :rolleyes:
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i went to IGN.com and found this..
"..But alas, as good as the game is, it's not without its flaws; however, these blemishes are few and far between. About the only drawbacks to the game are the lack of any multiplayer modes and some performance issues. While the minimum specs for the game are a 450MHz machine with a 16MB video card and the recommended specs are a 700MHz processor with a 32MB card, I would suggest running on at least a 800MHz machine with aforementioned 32MB card. Even though the game is scalable, you will most likely run into some stuttering and choppiness, which is most apparent when you hi-jack a car and the radio station music has to load up. I played on systems ranging from an 800MHz to 1.6GHz, and even on the 1.6GHz I experienced some choppiness at resolutions higher than 1024x768. I also ran into a problem running the game on Windows XP with a GeForce3, but a fix is outlined in the readme file.
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i will be buying this game when i get the money!
the best part is when you need health and you have to have sex with a hooker, then beat her up and get your money back! ROFL!
that is frickin funny!
"fack those ho's!"
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I dunno Tex.. it might just be your system...
I got GTA3 to work at my work... on an ATI Rage 128 Ultra 32mb video card.
Is the TNT2 really that much worse?
It shouldn't be.. it ran real nice here on a Dell Optilplex GX240...
So I dunno.
-SW
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I got it...and this game is a lag fest.
1) Right after install no menu icons showed, (fix is to download patch for xp)
2) When ever I drive car game laggs for 1 second and 2 second it runs fine and then 1 second lag, and continue
If there is no patch for this, better to get GT3 for PS2, this is a waist of money.
Ps I couldn't find patch....
WinXP pro
GF4 4400 (128mb ram)
xp2000+ (1.67Ghz)
SBLive 5.1
Edit
It seems that those slow downs are coused by one of those video options. Turn options off, no slow downs. (Which option, I don't remember)
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Console ports to PC...
*SHUDDERS*
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Performance tip:
Copy all the radio chatter and music MP3 onto your harddisk... helps stuttering alot!
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Performance tip:
Copy all the radio chatter and music MP3 onto your harddisk... helps stuttering alot!
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Well, this thread got me curious so I went bought the game yesterday. I am not having any troubles with performance, but the game is just lousy, IMO.
I did the first Luigi mission and after tried to drive to portland harbor to get more and got there but no clue as to how to get a mission. Spent 45 minutes of driving around and got nowhere.
By far and away the worst game I have ever purchased.
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What comes to TNT2, I've had one and at Cel 566@850, there was a huge difference between TNT2 and Radeon 64mb.
Radeon is like twice better.
in AH, flying through smoke caused FPS to fall below 10, while Radeon was 40fps and even with whole field smoking, Radeon was keeping +20 fps.
It is at 566mhz, where Radeon and TNT2 comes "closer" in performance.
Now that we have R8500, GF3, GF4.. well, TNT2 is like lada parked aside brand new BMW.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Well, this thread got me curious so I went bought the game yesterday. I am not having any troubles with performance, but the game is just lousy, IMO.
I did the first Luigi mission and after tried to drive to portland harbor to get more and got there but no clue as to how to get a mission. Spent 45 minutes of driving around and got nowhere.
By far and away the worst game I have ever purchased.
hey skuzzy, wanna sell it? ill give ya $5 at the con :D
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Might just take ya up on that moose. Heck, paid $50 farkin bucks for this lousy game. Any return would be better than tossin it in the trash, which is where it almost ended up last night.