unreal games and performance

[Galilee 0]

Hi all

I have a NVIDIA card with a Athlon 1300. Performance in XP is generally very good. All open GL games are very fast and most directx games work ok. My only problem is unreal and UT based games.

They work and all, but my framerate is around 50% of the framerate in WinMe (around 40-50fps in XP).

Is it only me, or does these games run like crap in XP (I believe I had the same problem in Win2k really).

I have been thinking a litte (wow ) and think it might have to do with directx7. Everything dx8 is very optimized and fast (I almost score better in 3dmark2001 in XP than in Me), but older directx games are slow.

 

Am I doing something wrong? I'll hate to go back to WinMe, but I would very much like to be able to play Deus Ex at playable framerates.

 

Galilee

[Brian Frank 0]

Which nVidia card? Which drivers are u using? I just installed RC1 and UT kicks arse with a GF2MX and 12.41 Detonator drivers.

I'm havin' problems with HL tho...

 

I'd check yur drivers and settings in the game, cuz a few of them don't do well for nVidia cards.

[fatattack 0]

What problems are you having with Half-lIfe ?

 

I had problems before too but was able to solve them recently.

 

Half-life and all mods kicks *** now :-)

[Seldzar 0]

http://seldzar.homestead.com/files/shot0001.jpg

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Both were 16x12(resized so it's easier to look at)

 

That's D3D in WinXP 2531 with the latest 14.40 Nv ref Drivers.

 

Asus V7700 Pro 250/420 -> KDS 19" Visual Sensations 16x12x32b@75hz

NVidia 14.40

MSI K7T Turbo -R

AMD Tbird 1.0@1.4ghz (10x140mhz)

512mb Micron Pc133

V3 2000 Pci -> Acer 99c 19" 16x12x32@75hz

Hotrod ATA 100 Raid card -> 2x Quantum LM 20gb 7200Rpm ATA66

Sblive

Surecom 10/100 nic

ATI TV Wonder

Toshiba 12x DVD

Plextor 12x10x32 CDRW

Antec 1030 Case

 

Install the Via agp driver for one, make sure you have all updated drivers you can, even latest Nvidia drivers (14.40) www.nvmax.com

[Brian Frank 0]

It's highly unplayable because with the 12.41's, I move the mouse but the screen is so delayed, I can do a 360 before the screen follows. So I quit after about a minute; it's too unplayable like that. Which dets r u using?

I've also had some issues with the motherboard on that system, but UT was running smooth as ice on the mx200 dood.

I'm puzzled at why it wouldn't run well in HL but run soooo smooth in UT, as UT is obviously more graphix intesive.

[TBone 0]

I don't know about UT or Rune, but I have Deu***, and I can tell you that D3D performance is going to suck unless you download the D3D patch for 2k/XP. They've incorporated this into their main game patch, so I don't know if you can still download just the D3DDRV.DLL file without the patch. If that driver is part of the engine core, you might be able to use it to fix unreal or rune too.

 

You might also have sound problems if you have an SB Live, but you can usually fix that by turning down the sound acceleration one notch. Otherwise the some sounds like voices may crackle and distort whenever there is a loud, low-frequency sound being played at the same time. I think this is an API issue, and might be fixed with Creative's upcoming Liveware release for XP.

[fatattack 0]

just run detonator 4 drivers

 

I have run them for some time and have no problems with any unreal based games ( without having to do all that patching stuff)

[cyberguru 0]

Why d'you wonna play Unreal anyway?

Wolfenstein 3D was better.

Nail Unreal/UT to the wall as punishment and play Half Life or something better, like spider solitaire.