JMD on 24/8/2002 at 20:20
Hello All
My original card, a Radeon 8500 64 Meg, was sent back for repair. Overheating and locking up!
I have a Radeon 8500 128 LE and the very latest 6.13.10.6118 drivers and 3d Rage Tweak 3.5 currently in my system. The 8500 LE was a vast improvement over the defective 8500 64 mg.
But I still cannot help but think with this new system I just got (see below) some setting somewhere must be screwed up as I am only getting 15to 20 fpm (tops!) in the country and 8 to 12 fps (tops!) in the city while in Morrowind.
I am running @ 1024 X 768 and find VERY little improvement, or loss, by going up or down in res.
Shadows are off and I am at about 80% Distance View.
If some one could help me with the following I would be VERY GRATEFUL.
A) What utility or spec sheet and at what web page can I use to get my setting in 3D rage Tweak back to the normal / generic/ non tweaked / original settings?
B) How can I change the context sensitive help setting in 3d Rage Tweak back and forth from the registry address location ( which is currently showing ) to the actual help / explanation of the individual function line currently being highlighted / right clicked on.
Finally: Once I am back to ground zero with all the setting is there any settings that are recommended for this game. It is beautiful but I have never in my 20 years of PC gaming seen such a power hungry game.
AMD 2000 XP
Gigabyte GA - Series Mother Board
1 GIG PC 2700 DDR (Ram)
ATI Radeon 8500 LE 128 ( My regular Radeon 8500 64 mg should be back shortly )
Maxtor 80 Gig 7200 ATA 133
Plextor 40x12x40
Pioneer DVD 16X
Thank you all very much in advance. Good Gaming!
JD
:p
Slith on 24/8/2002 at 22:49
Try setting the veiw distance to like 20% or something... just large enough that you can almost see all of balmora from atop one of those guard towers. (Try the ones on the manor hill.)
Otherwise I don't have any clue... though I do find a lot of my stuff to constantly be in disrepair when it comes to the computer... :erg: but there's not much I can do about it, I think they make the peices to break down on purpose... I had to replace my motherboard 3 times! each due to 'overheating' well before the third one happened I got some more cooling systems installed. (Another fan) and I got a charge protecter thingy, to prevent the electricity form the wires going into the computer and frying it. Yet even after that my Motherboard fry's. I went a bought a new one from other people and it works reletively well... though I don't like how often the computer crashes. To many program conflictions. Anyway, tahts' basically all I can help you with.
Morale of the story is: [SPOILER]Alligators Bite!![/SPOILER]
autechre123 on 31/8/2002 at 17:04
check out (
http://forums.viaarena.com/) if ur mobos usin a via chipset and check the websites/forums of the ppl who build ur cards
ur system can maybe handle being OC'ed but maybe some of the other cards in ur system (if u have any others in there u didnt mention but im gunna say it anyway) dont like being pushed, remember via south bridges are a bit buggy and have latency issues because they didnt use bus parking because it wasnt in the pci2 specs
OC'ing ur setup can downgrade performance aswell because stabalising algorythems come into play if u push to hard
its suprising what a good enermax or quailty PSU does for a powerhungry system (u can even increase ur FPS by a small % if ur PSU sucks bad enough)
make sure ur 4 in 1's are up to date aswell (the AGP vxd atleast in XP) if ur chipsets VIA
update any firmware on ur system aswell (bios ect)
and gigabytes AGP slots dont have quality smoothing capaciters they are noturious for having underpar AGP slots
check if fast writes is off in ur bios gf4ti normaly dont like it, it adds a extra stage to cpu-agp but 0% diff in fps
u could maybe turn off pixel shading off, my gf4 ti makes the water look cool wih it on though, heh soz
AA anti alisaing will double ur fps with it off, when u install a AGP card that suports it its normaly on 2xaa, i know radeons use AA differently to GF4's with very little changes in fps but if u wanna run it bigger at the cost of image smoothness (not game smoothness) it all helps
and after a bad shutdown the system claims more resources on reboot sometimes the after a bad boot and reload a quick restart can improve performace marginaly
and make sure ur agp slots at 2x/4x AGP u wont notice any diff in performance between the 2
check out (
http://forums.viaarena.com) if u have a hardware issue with a VIA based mobo
yeah cut down ur view range aswell :P u only need it high when ur searching for that door somewhere in the wilderness
or stop playing morrowind ;(
or something like that
