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Pizza
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Location: Laval,Quebec,Canada
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by Pizza » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:26 am
i got a 2.8 atlon system with 1 gig ram and 1 gig vid card..when a lot of action goes in my fps drops a lot,,,what should i do??
thanks
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Grendel
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Location: Corvallis OR, USA
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by Grendel » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:06 pm
Get a new computer
For a start: What brand/model GF/X card ? Running D3 on D3D or OGL ? What's running in the background ?
Floyd
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by Floyd » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:20 pm
if the fps still drop to no good with the \"-nosound\" command line option, seperate vga and sound card ressources (IRQ!) or get a better sound card (which is still no guarantee for more speed). hercules cards performed very well last time i checked.
Wasp
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by Wasp » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:06 am
Click Start/Run and type in \"dxdiag\" (without quotes) and hit OK.
Goto the sound tab and move the sound acceleration slider to the far left disabling sound acceleration completely.
Reboot, enjoy.
Duper
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon USA
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by Duper » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:34 pm
Grendel wrote: Get a new computer
For a start: What brand/model GF/X card ? Running D3 on D3D or OGL ? What's running in the background ?
What is your:
Operating system
are your drivers current (all drivers)
Which Descent are you running? 1,2,3, D2x-XL or rebirth XX?
Grendel
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by Grendel » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:08 pm
Since the guy never followed up I'll lock it. Seems like a waste of time.