Performance Issuses

Tubblers · 2003-06-20, 09:41 PM

This is my first post so bear with me. I have a nice computer. I play computer games all the time. I love BF42, Planetside, and the like. I also have problems with Planetside. Most of the time the game runs well, except in large battles, and at doors. The doors are the worst. When I come up to one, it'll open a millimeter and then it'll freeze from 10 or 15 seconds to not at all. This is of course enough time for some Jackhammer toting tater tit to come around the corner and blast me out of my reinforced exo-suit. It's very annoying and I'm afraid my computer can only take a few more punches from me (my hand has several gashes from those sharp plastic pieces that fly out when my fists fly into it).

Anyways, it also freezes for minutes at a time whenever I fly to a base and there is a battle. My computer then freezes and by the time I come out of it 8 trillion anti-air missles have vaporized my poor mosquito and me, so I make it a habit to just jump out of it before I can see the base and walk there. My computer specs are: Pentium 4 (some number in the thousands, and I think it had a 700 in it) ghz, Quadra 4 Pro, 256 mb o' RAM, and a Santa Cruz sound card. I don't know much about computers but I believe that this is sufficient. My brother says that it is the Qaudra 4 that is it because it's a more autocad based thing, for pros. Anyways, just need to know if this is lag or what. I have all the video settings in the game to the lowest possible, except for view distance which i have to about half.

PhadeToBlack · 2003-06-20, 10:43 PM

Hi, your problem is your lack of RAM.

I would suggest you upgrade to at least 512, but preferrably closer to a Gig. This should eliminate the system slowdown with doors openeing, and significantly reduce/eliminate it during large battles.

PhadeToBlack

Tubblers · 2003-06-21, 11:01 PM

Thanks PhadeToBlack!

Seriously, I really appreciate this info, and I had a hunch that RAM was it.

Moon · 2003-06-24, 11:44 AM

could also be low system resources

1TIME · 2003-07-01, 10:43 PM

So I need 512mb of RAM and it should work just fine. I have the same problem.

Vick · 2003-07-02, 12:44 AM

I have 512 and still get lag like that, I am gonna try 1gig to see if it helps, ill post back here again.

Lise · 2003-07-02, 02:39 PM

More RAM, yeh.

But also... are you QUITE sure it's a Quadra 4 Pro? Your brother is right, that is NOT a gaming card. It's a powerful enough piece of hardware, but it wasn't designed with gaming in mind. If you still have problems post-RAM upgrade, consider getting a new video card of some kind.

(Very odd indeed... I've never heard of a home PC with a Quadra card in it... where did you get the computer from?)

1TIME · 2003-07-02, 09:20 PM

Yo Vick, you have 512 mb of ram and you still get lag in the game. What kind of video card do you have in your pc? I have a G-Force 3 and 256 mb of ram. I doubt very much that it's the video card. So if you have 512 mb of ram and your still lovks up. Tha means that I have to buy a whole lot of ram man.

Lise · 2003-07-02, 10:47 PM

No worries 1time, I run a GF3 and 512 MB and I'm usually good (I get some video/machine lag in really big fights, but I have reason to suspect that latency even affects machine performance.) While more RAM is never a bad thing

, going to 512 should help you a lot. 256 really isn't enough. (The more the better though.)

Fuzzymath · 2003-07-05, 05:51 PM

From the few people I've talked with, that HAVE it, a gig of ram gets rid of 90% of all lag issues. Even if you have a cruddy video card. You can still run the game rather well.

Tubblers · 2003-07-05, 07:30 PM

I'm not sure if it's a Quadro 4 or 2. That computer is messed up and I have to use my dad's so I can't check it. Anyway, my mom got the computer from her work, and they design alot of stuff with autocad, hence the Quadro.

Hikowa · 2003-07-25, 07:56 AM

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