gOOters November 18, 2003 Share gOOters Member November 18, 2003 (edited) I just bought and built a new computer. Its a 2 Gig AMD and 512K PC3200. I am running off my old video card and its a GeIV 4400? Its a 128MB card. I know it is a little bit older, but my DC is running soooooo choppy that I cant even play one player!! When I try to fly the choppers it is like 7 fps or something. I know that I dont have my computer set up very well. I dont even know what to do. Honestly, I am getting so sick of having a crappy working comp and having to screw with it constantly that I am considering giving up gaming alltogether. I have alot that I am trying to do with my life right now anyway. So, long question short, why is my DC running at 8 fps? Edited November 18, 2003 by gOOters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer November 18, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member November 18, 2003 Are other games running crappeh too? Did you install all your drivers? - motherboard, agp, 4in1 I have a xp2400+ and a GF4/Ti4600 and DC runs pretty good at 1024x768 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters November 18, 2003 Author Share gOOters Member November 18, 2003 Yeah...installed all the drivers, tweaked the settings for CS. Havent flashed my BIOS or really tweaked my comp at all. CS actually seems to be running pretty well too. My DC settings are all LOW graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer November 18, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member November 18, 2003 Make sure your sound drivers are the latest out. Then check your sound settings in-game. Look around here for suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters November 18, 2003 Author Share gOOters Member November 18, 2003 thx Homey...I'll look at it tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtz November 18, 2003 Share Kurtz Member November 18, 2003 (edited) people have been havin problems with the new drivers for nvidea in battlefield have you check any off the bf/dc forums you prb. find more help there.talk to abuss on ts he could point you in the right direction on where to look. Edited November 18, 2003 by Kurtz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters November 18, 2003 Author Share gOOters Member November 18, 2003 k-thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer November 18, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member November 18, 2003 I'll prolly roll back to the previous drivers myself. In certain situations I can see through walls or terrain, which actually is more hazardous to me - if I'm in a building and can't see the walls I can't figure out how to get outside! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy November 18, 2003 Share Jiffy Member November 18, 2003 make sure your bf1942 is set up to allow refresh rates for your monitor, it will give you the highest available rate to you. i thought you just built a new good comp goot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowbar November 18, 2003 Share Crowbar Member November 18, 2003 card shouldn't be the problem, I'm running a GeForce2 GTS Pro 64mb card and Battlefield runs alright. Not great or anything, but I can play smoothly at medium graphics. Even at highest settings with few people online. Make sure the drivers are all set up correctly, don't really know what else to tell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtz November 18, 2003 Share Kurtz Member November 18, 2003 make sure your bf1942 is set up to allow refresh rates for your monitor, it will give you the highest available rate to you. how do you do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtz November 18, 2003 Share Kurtz Member November 18, 2003 man i musta been on heroin when i typed my first post cause i even have a hard time following it when i reread it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy November 18, 2003 Share Jiffy Member November 18, 2003 Ea games > bf1942 > mod > which one it is > videodefault change the above to allow refreshrates, this helped when i could only get 60 because of my monitor setting, i got a lil program that locked it at 100ms, so now in cs i get 100 fps, and in Bf better than 60 most times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL November 18, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member November 18, 2003 What sound card do you have Goot? I had problems playing Splinter Cell because my crappy onboard sound actually affected the fps (maybe they try syncing the sound and picture so when the sound skipped, it skipped in video as well..dunno). Once I upgraded to my Audigy2, it ran fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rackish November 18, 2003 Share rackish Member November 18, 2003 i got a lil program Link please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL November 19, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member November 19, 2003 I don't know if this is the little program Jiffy is talking about but PowerStrip is a very nice shareware program with multiple features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurtz November 19, 2003 Share Kurtz Member November 19, 2003 anything work yet goot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX1138 November 19, 2003 Share THX1138 Member November 19, 2003 Homer,Nov 18 2003, 04:08 PM] I'll prolly roll back to the previous drivers myself. In certain situations I can see through walls or terrain, which actually is more hazardous to me - if I'm in a building and can't see the walls I can't figure out how to get outside! i was having the same problem. it was hiliarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffy November 19, 2003 Share Jiffy Member November 19, 2003 nvidia refreshtool 2.1 http://www.nvrt.org/ nice lil app. small and works just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters November 19, 2003 Author Share gOOters Member November 19, 2003 anything work yet goot? Haven't had the time to look at it yet :-/ I'll give it a shot tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters November 21, 2003 Author Share gOOters Member November 21, 2003 Ea games > bf1942 > mod > which one it is > videodefault change the above to allow refreshrates, this helped when i could only get 60 because of my monitor setting, i got a lil program that locked it at 100ms, so now in cs i get 100 fps, and in Bf better than 60 most times. couldnt find video default. and yes, I accidently bought the NForceII mobo with built in sound. waiting to upgrade my sound card :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowbar November 21, 2003 Share Crowbar Member November 21, 2003 nForce2 onboard sound is as good or better than a Creative sound card. no useless, space hogging software, and on the deluxe card there's true dolby 5.1 sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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