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02-15-2003, 03:17 PM
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theres no justifiable reason for that type of game to run slow on your machine... either it's intentionally slow or theres something wrong, maybe it just sucks.
your computer is faster than everything i have, except maybe my alpha...
your computer is faster than everything i have, except maybe my alpha...
02-15-2003, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoffman72' date='Feb 15 2003, 09:21 PM
Read the link in the computer post. The game was made to run at 30fps.
NTSC == 30fps
film is 24FPS, but they double the display of each frame to get 48, but in computing that happens automatically because the frame isnt cleared before drawing the next one... unless something weird is being done.
If your game is updating graphics at 30FPS it shouldnt feel slow, if other things are bound to the frame rate then it may feel slow if the simulation code unrelated to the rendering is going slow and blocking the graphical updates... but in that case the frame rate would drop below 30fps and you would complain about the slowness of the game.
It really depends on how the game is written... but 30 *changing frames* per second are fast enough, but again if the simulation isnt able to run fast enough to keep up with the rendering then it will feel slow regardless... watching a dead body at 100FPS vs 30FPS looks the same, unless it's bouncing around, and if the simulation code takes crazy amounts of cpu cycles to make the body bounce, it won't take advantage of the 30FPS rendering rate... maybe just every other frame you will see it move... in this case increasing FPS will make it slower, and dropping the frame rate can actually give more CPU time to the simulation code.. what you want is basically only frame updates when something changes.
again, it depends on how the game is designed...
02-15-2003, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by 1Revvin7' date='Feb 16 2003, 12:08 AM
the box says recommended: 1.8ghz or faster pentium 3 or amd athlon, 256 mb, nvidia getforce or more recent direct 3d vid card, so why the hell doesn't this work right on my comp????
When you're playing the game, do you notice the computer making alot of noise or if there is a hard disk activity light, is it flashing alot or maybe even constantly illuminated?
your computer may be running out of physical memory when you're playing, likely because of other programs running... when this happens windows will start paging to disk so it can free up physical memory for the program you are interacting with. Well, the hard disk is alot slower than physical memory so this makes things go really slow. It will bring things to a crawl if it happens.
I'm guessing you don't need a new computer, you need a geek to come over and check yours out, or someone to explain how to find out what all is running on your computer and what is resident in memory and how much is being used.
Theres a windows program called taskinfo2000 which might be able to help you with finding out what the deal is.
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utiliti...skInfo2000.html
it's available there, try it out. Can be useful in identified what programs are being pigs. If you cannot find out what is being a pig, it's possibel that windows itself is wasting the resources, you said your computer is a couple years old, if it hasnt been reinstalled.. it's likely windows is in a sad state by now. There are some things about windows that constantly grow and never shrink, like the registry. The more you use it, the more you install, the worse it gets.
it's not just a rumour, windows really does suck. Just most people buy a new computer when the software is really what is to blame for the problems.