Slow-motion Gameo *o*

Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:49 am by Seas of Ganymede

Ohaio Gozaiemas! ^_^ (Good Morning! I think?)

I need help. (not that kind of help *_*)
I've been experiencing a game slowdown unlike anything you have ever seen before, a near-total game slowdown, everything from the in game cinematics to the menus to gameplay performance itself is moving at a snail's pace. Honto.-_-' Everything except the starting movies, u know, d microsoft logos, etc.

I don't get it. Even if i pull the performance tab in options to either end of the slider the game still slows. ?? *_* ?? And it's not a real laggy kinda slow but it's a rather smooth, lagless kinda slow, if you look at it u might not see anything wrong but i've seen Freelancer on my pal's PC and it's nothing like mine.
(Although it is easier to shoot the fighters but that's no fun!)

I'm running a:
AMD Athlon 1.2G
64 MB Radeon 7000
more than 256 RAM
1.44 g hard disk space free NTSC?? not FAT
800 mb virtual memory limit

pleze help!!! what's wrong wit me com??

See you Net Cowboy...Somewhere, Somewhen.

Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:02 am by guptasa1

When you say the "performance tab", do you mean in the game, or in Windows? There's a known problem with the Radeon series of video cards that new drivers from ATI should address soon, and a temporary fix is turning 3D acceleration down one notch in Windows control panel.

The only other thing I can think of is hard drive space. Not sure if that was a misprint or if you really have 1.44 gigabytes (seems like maybe a misprint?), but I can't imagine you fitting Windows and much else on it at all. If it's not a misprint, maybe the game simply doesn't have enough disk space to run properly.

Good luck getting it going.

EDIT: OOps - see the "free" now - that should be plenty free, so I don't know; probably not this. I'm running the demo with NTFS fine, so it's not that.

Edited by - guptasa1 on 10-03-2003 07:03:15

Mon Mar 10, 2003 8:06 am by Wizard

I solved this yesterday at my sis' comp

I assume you have a MSI motherboard. Go to this download page. Download the VIA 4in1 drivers.
Only do this when you have a MSI mobo with a VIA chipset. This solved it for me.

Mon Mar 10, 2003 8:55 am by Seas of Ganymede

Oro?

1) Nah, it's not the hard ware acceleration tab; that's a fix for the choppy menus. Been there, done that. didn't do squat.
2)Hait! I do have a MSI motherboard (how did you know? r u psychic or...), so i'll guess i'll try that, hmmnn go to.....

See you Net Cowboy...Somewhere, Somewhen.

Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:18 am by Wizard

IT was just a guess, and a lucky one

My sister has a MSI mobo and she was experiencing freezes whenever she tried to play a normal or a flash game. I tried everything (formats, new drivers, old drivers, other CPU, other videocard). So me and my uncle decided that it had to be the mobo. He first advised me to install Win2K instead of XP but then he realised he read an article somehwere about the MSI mobos which were in conflict with the VIA chipset. It has something to do with the AGP drivers I believe. But the 4in1 is a perfect driver package.

Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:33 am by Idioteque

There is a more recent version of the 4-in-1's... I mean hyperion

drivers at http://www.viaarena.com, that is the version I am using at the moment (with an MSI mainboard) and the demo runs fine

Oh and only download those if your motherboard using a VIA chipset (for both northbridge and southbridge).

Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:27 pm by Seas of Ganymede

Right, oh and i've got a....uhhh... statement -_-" to make...i'm actually running a AMD "Duron" 1.2g not an Athlon. ahem.
My motherboard's a K7T Turbo 2 (ms-6330 v5.x) with a via KT 133A ( VT8313A & VT82C686B )
I hope that helps a bit.

See you Net Cowboy...Somewhere, Somewhen.

Edited by - Seas of Ganymede on 10-03-2003 14:36:06

Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:11 am by Idioteque

The drivers for your motherboard are at:

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/d ... 0%20Ver5.0

(Long enough URL?!?!?!)

Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:26 am by Seas of Ganymede

YAHOO!!!!

The new drivers worked like a charm! Thanks Wizard, Idioteque. I couldn't have done it without ya!! ^_^

I hope this fix'll help all u other lurkers out there who are having the same problem as i am.

Right, Time to go Hyper...;p

See you Net Cowboy...Somewhere, Somewhen.

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