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Default heavy fps drop - 10-10-2002, 08:01 AM

I have a p4 2,0GHz, ATI radeon 8500le 64 mb, 256mb ddr. Win XP, moh:AA 1.11. Never had problems before, but I had to format my pc. installed everything again, newest drivers, mohaa patch. But when I play the game now (SP and MP) the framerate heavily drops to 20-30 (from 80). THis happens mostly when i am holding a weapon. as soon as i press Q to holster, the fps drop is gone. I tried to tune the graphs down but even with 640x480 and everthing low the drop is still there. need some help.... also in windows i tried to downtune the graphs, no go....
  
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Default 10-10-2002, 08:48 PM

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Im running a 1.33ghz thunderbird with a radeon 8500 and im getting the exact same thing. I can normaly ru at 1024x768 with most settings up full but now even at 800x600 it wil drop from 90fps to like 12 fps.

Do you by any chance have unreal 2003 or battlefield 1942 installed as well?


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Default 10-12-2002, 03:22 AM

well just as in your screenie I have it. And now I haven't got BF1942 or UT2003 installed, before I formatted I had. and with all those games on my system mohaa was running smooth!!! M16:
  
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Default 10-12-2002, 11:17 PM

This might be kind of obvious but are you making sure you have no programs running in the background that are taking up a lot of cpu and memory usage?
  
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Default fixable - 10-13-2002, 10:16 AM

Aside with the great advice from everyone else that posted i think i can help you out.

First of all, in the advanced options menu of MOHAA, i would say adjust the following settings (this works perfect on my p3 1 gig, gf 3 ti 500, 512mb RAM)

Full Entity lighting: uncheck this

Shadows: Turn this off (who the hell pays attention to them anyhow?)

Terrian detail: Turn this to high (there is almost no difference between high and max)

thats about all i can tell you, i run the game on 115x1024 (i think, not sure what comes after the 115 :-p) I dont buy ATI cards, beucase there just not compatable with anything, this could also be an issue, i know ATI just released a new driver, head on over to http://www.shacknews.com and you dl it. But, going along with the ATI card, check you FSAA settings...if its anything like Nvida keep them around 2-3, anything high and your gonna get chugging to the enth degree. Hope this helps
  
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Default 10-14-2002, 02:04 AM

Another tid-bit that might help you greatly. I hear this a lot lately from the regulars on my server, to which I follow-up with one question:

When was the last time you defragmented?

If you run your swap-file on the same drive as your OS/Game, then your drive can easily turn into chaos in no time. I discovered MOH was great at doing this to me when I first started playing (and my wife had my only spare drive).

Also, if you remove anything from your HD you will begin the fragmentation process. If you like to add/remove stuff on a regular basis (some people enjoy looking at diff. shareware apps, etc.), then you really aught to run defrag often.

Oh, and XP defrag is for the birds. Consider finding something better. Personally I use Diskeeper which rocks.

Just a thought. Not everyone is conflicted with this, but it's a good thing to keep an eye out for.
  
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Default 11-30-2002, 04:11 AM

make sure you've downloaded the right drivers from the ati site..

alot of people just click the first "find a driver" link they see on the ATI site without seeing that there's separate drivers sections for BUILT BY ATI cards and POWERED BY ATI cards..

if you have a POWERED BY ATI card and you use the latest catalyst drivers of the the BUILT BY ATI cards you're gonna have horrible performance, especially in MOHAA
  
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Default 11-30-2002, 05:17 AM

I have the same problem, only I have a GF3 ti200. No matter how low I set the options, including everything down to lowest at 640x480 I still get some horrendous frame rate drops. The frame rate drops are the same regardless if I have everything maxed out or not, so it is some setting or a driver issue or something. Can't freakin figure it out, and it's pissing me off... The game did not have these problems with my GF2 (just obviously lower average frame rates, I just recently swapped cards). It is somehow related to the video card/drivers... (I'm running 40.72 drivers, anyone equiped with a GF3 without this problem running older ones?)
  
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Default 11-30-2002, 01:03 PM

My tuppence worth is Radeon cards are good, but the drivers absolutely suck!

ATI are renowned for creating pants drivers.

I used to have a Radeon 7500 64mb, dam thing cost me £200 when it first came out, anyway with W2K latest SP's and all latest drivers installed, I couldnt even run MOHAA on lowest settings and 640 res, dam thing was so laggy! I had to go back 7 driver versions before it ran okish!

My advice to you is dump the Radeon and get a GF4... I got a GF4, ultra750XP and it runs everything on full at the highest res you can set and my FPS hardly ever drops below 90. biggrin:

If you cant afford a new card then try older driver versions, like I said above, going back 7 driver versions helped my system.

Yes i know versions should be backward compatible, and it doesnt make sense, but trust me it helped!

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Default 12-01-2002, 09:37 AM

I agree the radoen drivers are pants... GF4 is the way to go
  
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