Lagging horrifically! Help!

Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:19 am by Phr00t

I have a friend who plays freelancer.

He has a 1.3ghz machine with a decent ATI graphics card.

The game lags horribly about 5 or 10 minutes into a dogfight, making the game almost impossible to play. If you load an AUTOSAVE right before the fight, it will run nice and smoothly, but the moment he has been fighting for about 5 minutes, about 75% of the gametime is spent looking at a frozen screen. After about 5 minutes of lagging, it will free up until you fire or attack...

This is pretty bad, any suggestions to fix this?

Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:27 am by Murgen

Microsoft has a decent FAQ about Freelancer for ATI's. I assume this is a Radeon? Go to Hardware acceleration for your friend's videocard and move it one notch from maximum. That solved the problems for my ATI Radeon 9500pro.

It will not harm anyone to check his amount of RAM and the way the swap-file is configured. Is it dynamic (enough space on the HD) or fixed (which is much faster).

And finally ... close all other applications. Especially monsters like Kazaa.

House of the Templar Knights.

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Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:13 am by Unpro

I play this game on my PIII 800 and Gforce 2 Mx400 32mb

No lag at 800x600x16, highest graphic setting..(40fps??)

it lags a bit if I put in some anti alias..

so I think your pc should fare much better..

..and I just wonder, where do I buy one of those?...

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