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Kaplunk
Village Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2002
Posts: 3
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I finally got this damn game to work after all that access violation crap and now I find that my graphics are all choppy. I am planning a processor upgrade...what else can i do to improve the high res quality so its detailed and not jumpy.
I'm using:
-AMD K-6 2 @ 500Mhz
-PNY Tech Verto GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB
-30 Gig HDD
-256 MB RAM
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Mon Jan 07, 2002 12:36 am |
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lol i think gothic hates yor comp, i got one wit hthe almsot exact same specs as yours, just mine plays gothic at 20fps on 800by600 with good deatails lvls |
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Mon Jan 07, 2002 2:36 am |
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mersil
Noble Knight
Joined: 23 Nov 2001
Posts: 214
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When in Doubt : Upgrade  |
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Mon Jan 07, 2002 5:50 am |
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Boogie
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Posts: 34
Location: Wilmington, NC |
How do you check your fps? I just got a new vid card so Im runnin:
AMD Athlon 1.2
GeForce3 Ti 200
512MB SDRAM
And I am really curious to how its performing... |
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Mon Jan 07, 2002 6:27 am |
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non-euclid
Head Merchant
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 63
Location: Seattle, WA USA |
Ditto, Boogie. I was wondering that myself...
My specs are:
k6-2 500 AMD
320 mb RAM
VISIONTEK GEFORCE2 MX400 64mb
WINDOWS 98
SAME FREAKIN' PROBLEM AS YOU, KAPLUNK. SOME SYSTEMS LIKE OURS WORK FINE, APPERANTLY. I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WRONG (BESIDES CPU)...PERHAPS 'ANONYMOUS' COULD GIVE US A FEW POINTERS.
[ This Message was edited by: non-euclid on 2002-01-07 13:17 ] |
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Mon Jan 07, 2002 7:15 pm |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
Check the other thread in troubleshooting. |
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Mon Jan 07, 2002 8:08 pm |
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Do you guys ever look at MINIMUM SYSTEM REQIREMENTS and RECOMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS? If you did you would see 500MHz is just not enough. Try turning display to 640*480 16, turn details down all the way. Then see how it works... Bettya it will work better then. |
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Fri Jan 11, 2002 5:51 pm |
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non-euclid
Head Merchant
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 63
Location: Seattle, WA USA |
Of course I looked at the SysReqs! 400 minimum, 600 recomended. I thought perhaps 500 would fall in between somewhere.
Turning down everything doesn't do much good, by the way. Then not only does it run like crap, it looks like crap. This is the most hardware intensive game I've ever tried to play!...Darn... |
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Fri Jan 11, 2002 8:25 pm |
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Tyre Gryphon
Village Dweller
Joined: 11 Jan 2002
Posts: 7
Location: Waterdeep, Faerun |
Not truly so...
AMD 800 Mhz Duron
384 MB PC133 SDRAM
PNY AGP Ti200 64MB DDR
SB PCI Live X-Gamer
Running Gothic at:
Texture Detail: all the way up
Model Detail: all the way up
Visual Range: 300%
Sky Effects: ON
Resolution: 1280x1024x32
Game runs very smooth and even while fighting a large pack of Orc Dogs it still runs smooth as silk.
I Could tell you the FPS if I knew what the command was!
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Sat Jan 12, 2002 6:41 am |
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Joey Nipps
Orcan High Command
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 849
Location: Outer Space |
The simple truth is that 500 mhz with 256 meg ram is essentially borderline capable. It may work and it may not work well - most important is more memory (do that before upgrading processor). For this and many modern graphic intensive games, 500 meg ram is generally the "true" minimum needed for "good" operation.
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When everything else in life seems to fail you - buy a vowel. |
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Sat Jan 12, 2002 1:57 pm |
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I guess I got lucky. I just got done building a new system. Dang kt266A mobos are a bit twitchy in the OverClocking arena. I finally went out got another kt266a mobo this time from Abit and it rocks! I have mine set (did you know I played the entire newbie chapters at 640 x 480 x 16?) at 1280x1024x32 and visible plane? @ 300%. Simply wonderful graphics!! And the sound is amazing. The first game I've played that actually uses ES to full affect. Total immersion in the game.
Abit KR7A
Athlon 1800+ XP cpu
512MB Samsung PC2100 DDR
OCZ Goliath HSF 42F at full load
2x 40GB IBM Deskstar 7200RPM RAID 0
Pioneer 16X dvd slot
Plextor 24/10/40 CDRW
LeadTek Ti500 OCed 260/521
SB Audigy
DVD Decoder card
CoolerMaster ATC201 Aluminum case w/4 fans
Enermax 430Watt PSU
Sandra mem scores 960/1020
3dMark2001 9335 @ 1024x768x32 w/all bells n whistles
OCed at 142 |
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Mon Jan 14, 2002 6:25 am |
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non-euclid
Head Merchant
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 63
Location: Seattle, WA USA |
You don't have to brag... |
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Wed Jan 16, 2002 1:08 am |
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NecroDancer
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 23 Dec 2001
Posts: 252
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I have over 800 mb of memory in my system. I tried disabling virtual memory but the game played extremely choppy.
I restored the virtual memory and set the min and max to 500. It's ok now.
Try to set your virtual memory to 1 number, don't let windows control it.
The best thing to do is to set Virtual mem to 0, then defrag c: drive. The reset the virtual memory to 100 or more.
I have 2 ISA sound cards in my system. One for record and one for play. They are very old cards, one is an AWE 32.
The new PCI cards probably have a lot more audio memory and play better than mine.
Can some one recconmend a decent card?
I was told to stay away from SB live! |
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Wed Jan 16, 2002 1:35 am |
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