Allied Assault Spearhead Slowdown?
 

Like most I'm enjoying playing the new Spearhead expansion but I am experiencing some real problems! First off here's my Spec machine:

Pentium III 1.2Ghz
640MB of PC133 RAM
AGP 4
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4400 with 128MB ram.
80GB UDMA 133 Hard Drive.
I Play MOH @ 1024x768 32bit

On Certain Multiplayer Maps I am getting moderate to severe slowdown! Specifically Berlin and Ardennes! At first I thought it was LAG but I am not so sure! I have tried numerous servers which all have low ping rates and I am experiencing the same problems.

I never experienced any of these type of problems with MOH - Allied Assault, and I have never had to try different screen res or change the Color depth at all! Even running 800x600 at 16bit I am getting slowdown on these maps! I have tried removing the patch, and things do appear to speedup, but I can't test Berlin on V2.00 because the relevant servers can't be played on the revision!

Just to state I have never had any problems on any games ever with Multiplayer slowdown until Spearhead!
Does anyone have any ideas that can help? Is anyone else experiencing the same problems?

Thanks in advance..
Gary

i found the same this on these map's
i am using a mashine that is better cpu 2ghz and a little more ram
but everything else is the same

i runa fps progam and sometimes go all the way down to 10-15 fps

i beleave the problem is a over inthoused ea programer, trying to make the trees to realistice on ardenses and the fact that berlin is so god damn big. even high quality mashines like ours can't proses it fast enough

so in the end there is nothing you can do but wait and get a better video card hen they come out.
lol

I dunno if this will work for you so try it at your own risk: I used to get about 96 FPS on most maps, I typed com_maxfps 300 in console and now get about 170 FPS. Try it if you want to......but a friend of mine tried it and it messed up his MOHAA.......

i think i know what he's talking about and it doesn't have anything to do with frame rates

i too thought it was lag at first, but i read somewhere spearhead has some serious problems with cpu optimization or something

Thanks.
 

Thanks for your replies. At least I know it isn't just me! I can't believe that Spearhead will out perform a high spec GeForce 4 card! Yeah it could push it to the limit but I truly believe this is sloppy programming! I mean things did get worse once I patched upto 2.11, which says to me that they have introduced problems!

Anyone else got any excellent ideas on playing this game at full rate?

Cheers
Gary

If you have Win2K or WinXP, uninstall the latest Service Pack (SP3 for Win2K, SP1 for XP). There is a .DLL that conflicts with certian video drivers, causing extreme lag in games such as Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield 1942, and Mafia. If you do uninstall them, reboot, and download all the Crititcal Update hotfixes you need to secure your PC again.

Also, running Config.EXE in the MOH folder tells MOH what system specs you have, so it can run at it's best. Try that, too.

Slowdown problems
 

I can't believe it is OS Patch related! I already own Mafia and have no problems at all! I think this is a different problem. I have been trying to communicate that to EA Games but my complaints have fallen on deaf ears!

They have basically stated that no one else is reporting problems, and they believe that 2.11 patch to Spearhead has cleared up all or at least the majority of problems on the original release! Which I say is Bullshit!

So if there is anyone else out there who has had major slowdown problems on Berlin or the Ardennes maps, shout about it to EA Games, perhaps they will listen if poeple complain on mass!

Cheers for everyones comments and help. Keep the ideas coming, I will try anything at the moment to try and retrieve my framrate! :-)

Gary