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Less-Than-Shite Performance
killermonkey:
I suggest a quick and dirty upgrade of the graphics card. I have a Geforce 8800 GTX 640MB and it runs everything like a dream (especially GE:S). Obviously, make sure your graphics drivers are up to date and i would also investigate your motherboard northbridge drivers if you are running nForce.
So yah: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134082
Geforce 9800 GT w/ 1GB RAM for $90 (after mail-in rebate)
Rodney 1.666:
Thanks for the response so far.
--- Quote from: major on July 17, 2010, 08:43:21 am ---As Proxie said, check your temperatures, and computer for dust.
Make sure you have the latest Drivers.
How is your performance in other games?
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I find myself cleaning out the tower every month, it seems, so that's taken care of. Temperature is something I've thought about and will look into when I get back from work today.
The last time I updated my graphics drivers the contrast went emo, so I'm still weary about that because I couldn't do a rollback. (This was during the end-phases of my Vista use (and was completely sick of it)).
Though this is a new OS so I'll do it.
Other games are also sub-par from what I recall (Half-Life ², DOOM³, even fucking DooM with the "bdoom" effect-enhancing WAD when things get stupid-busy (exclusive to TNT/Plutonia :P), though GE:S stands out as being worse.
As for upgrading the card, I've been looking around for a few months now, but as I currently stand I'm moving to my neighboring city for schooling in the middle of August, and I of course need as many monies as possibly possible, so that unfortunately won't be an option for a while.
--- Quote from: major on July 17, 2010, 08:43:21 am ---Try GE:S with the explosion particals off (Multiplayer > Advanced I believe).
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--- Quote from: Enzo.Matrix on July 17, 2010, 07:32:35 am ---Do note I am actually playing at fullscreen but in a window (because I use multimonitors it saves alt-tabbing out)
Here are my game launch options:
-novid -noborder -console -sw -w 1920 -h 1200
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I'll give those a shot along with a look at the temperature.
Updated OP with native monitor resolution, 1920 x 1200, 16:10. (if it's relevant)
Kratos:
ya, update your Nvidia drivers. If you could, replace your video card with a faster one. I am very pleased with my 9800gt 1gb.
Also check your temp readings. Stop any processes which you dont need.
i keep textures and details to very low or low. Runs faster and its summer here and I dont want to build more heat in my pc.
Pretty much just update your pc, and do some maintence (defrag, malware scan etc) after that check out the performance.
Rodney 1.666:
I almost got a 9800 for $128 a few months ago but decided I was more interested in the GTS 250. Then it just didn't happen.
As for maintenance, registry scans are done almost daily, defrags once a month, AVG does its thing every Sunday at 3AM, no unnecessary programs are run during startup (and thus ever), and I've been closing everything excluding Messenger and AVG before running GE:S.
So that's not a variable in this equation.
Enzo.Matrix:
Sometime a fresh format and an install of the best running drivers is all you need. Newest driver isn't always the best driver.
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