Earth and Beyond with MSI GF4 Ti 4200 64MB

This game has the worst video stuttering on my newly rebuilt computer.

I am running a P4 1800 with 1GB of DDR266

1280x1024 and 1024x768 are the same, do I jsut have too little texture ram,
forcing it to go to main memory?

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PB wrote:
This game has the worst video stuttering on my newly rebuilt computer.

I am running a P4 1800 with 1GB of DDR266

1280x1024 and 1024x768 are the same, do I jsut have too little texture
ram, forcing it to go to main memory?

I was in the beta of this game. At the time I had an XP1900+ and a GF3
Ti200 64MB. It was pretty much smooth as silk, even in debris fields etc
with lots going on. In other words, sounds like you should be just fine as
far as hardware power goes.


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Frode


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PB wrote:
This game has the worst video stuttering on my newly rebuilt computer.

I am running a P4 1800 with 1GB of DDR266

1280x1024 and 1024x768 are the same, do I jsut have too little texture
ram, forcing it to go to main memory?

I was in the beta of this game. At the time I had an XP1900+ and a GF3
Ti200 64MB. It was pretty much smooth as silk, even in debris fields etc
with lots going on. In other words, sounds like you should be just fine
as
far as hardware power goes.

I had an Athlon 1100MHz with 256MB RAM on Win98SE and a GF2 MX400 32MB in
E&B beta, and I had the occasional problem with speed, but not much.

Same computer with a GF4 Ti 4200 64MB, 512MB RAM, same OS, had problems with
pauses and stuttering in the current game.

Now I have a Pentium 4 1800MHz, newly built, top grade parts, but with 1GB
DDR266 and the GF4 Ti4200 64MB and WinXP Pro

Maybe I need to change some settings on the video board control panel?

PB

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PB wrote:
I had an Athlon 1100MHz with 256MB RAM on Win98SE and a GF2 MX400 32MB in
E&B beta, and I had the occasional problem with speed, but not much.
Same computer with a GF4 Ti 4200 64MB, 512MB RAM, same OS, had problems
with pauses and stuttering in the current game.
Now I have a Pentium 4 1800MHz, newly built, top grade parts, but with 1GB
DDR266 and the GF4 Ti4200 64MB and WinXP Pro
Maybe I need to change some settings on the video board control panel?

Beats me. Maybe they mucked something up in a patch. I stopped playing
shortly after release so I'm not up to date on current going ons. I take it
you've verified with other games that it's not a general system problem?


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Frode

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PB wrote:
I had an Athlon 1100MHz with 256MB RAM on Win98SE and a GF2 MX400 32MB in
E&B beta, and I had the occasional problem with speed, but not much.
Same computer with a GF4 Ti 4200 64MB, 512MB RAM, same OS, had problems
with pauses and stuttering in the current game.
Now I have a Pentium 4 1800MHz, newly built, top grade parts, but with
1GB
DDR266 and the GF4 Ti4200 64MB and WinXP Pro
Maybe I need to change some settings on the video board control panel?

Beats me. Maybe they mucked something up in a patch. I stopped playing
shortly after release so I'm not up to date on current going ons. I take
it
you've verified with other games that it's not a general system problem?

Works fine with anything else I throw at it, I can run EverQuest at
1280x1024 with all models and details on and have SETI@Home running in the
background no problem.

PB

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PB wrote:
Works fine with anything else I throw at it, I can run EverQuest at
1280x1024 with all models and details on and have SETI@Home running in the
background no problem.

Try whatever forums are around for E&B tech stuff then I guess. With some
luck someone else has stumbled upon the same or something similar. It's not
a very demanding game so it's either a setting specific to E&B's
performance, a setting in E&B itself, or a good old fashioned bug.



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Frode

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:37:24 -0400, "PB" wrote:


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PB wrote:
This game has the worst video stuttering on my newly rebuilt computer.

I am running a P4 1800 with 1GB of DDR266

1280x1024 and 1024x768 are the same, do I jsut have too little texture
ram, forcing it to go to main memory?

I was in the beta of this game. At the time I had an XP1900+ and a GF3
Ti200 64MB. It was pretty much smooth as silk, even in debris fields etc
with lots going on. In other words, sounds like you should be just fine
as
far as hardware power goes.

I had an Athlon 1100MHz with 256MB RAM on Win98SE and a GF2 MX400 32MB in
E&B beta, and I had the occasional problem with speed, but not much.

Same computer with a GF4 Ti 4200 64MB, 512MB RAM, same OS, had problems with
pauses and stuttering in the current game.

Now I have a Pentium 4 1800MHz, newly built, top grade parts, but with 1GB
DDR266 and the GF4 Ti4200 64MB and WinXP Pro

Maybe I need to change some settings on the video board control panel?

Obviously the P4 didn't help...


The programmers might have added some code after the beta stage that
is causing problems... as well as a driver issue.


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