Suggestions to improve Wolfenstein ET/gaming on my PC

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon 7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out $120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a better video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua

whats the amd equivalent to the pentium range? i got a pentium 4 2.2ghz
creative ti4400 gf4 768MB and dsl, about the same as yours and it runs great
if not a bit jerky due to some ppl lagging

"Mitchua" wrote in message
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I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon 7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out $120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a better
video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua

Mitchua wrote:

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon 7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out $120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a better
video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua

The videocard is your problem. The processor is definitely fast enough,
but the old Radeon 7000 just doesn't cut it with today's games.

--
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grass where nine years ago there used to be a horse. -Nuke

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:45:16 GMT, "Mitchua" wrote:

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon
7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it
is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the
figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level
and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out
$120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do
without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure
the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a
better video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua


Yup...the vidcard is the problem. I have a XP1700 and a GF4 4200ti and
run ET at 1024x768 with very little jerkiness (get more jerkiness from
SOF2 BTW).

Need a GF4 or Radeon 9500 to really enjoy the game.

Fauistus


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"Faustus" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:45:16 GMT, "Mitchua" wrote:

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon
7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it
is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the
figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level
and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out
$120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do
without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure
the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a
better video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua


Yup...the vidcard is the problem. I have a XP1700 and a GF4 4200ti and
run ET at 1024x768 with very little jerkiness (get more jerkiness from
SOF2 BTW).

Need a GF4 or Radeon 9500 to really enjoy the game.


There's a big price jump between the Radeon 9100 and the 9500. Is it really
worth the extra money? Or should I just stear clear of that all together
and make the move to GF4?

Your GF4 4200ti has 128MB of memory, right?

--Mitchua

yup mine does

"Mitchua" wrote in message
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"Faustus" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:45:16 GMT, "Mitchua" wrote:

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon
7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it
is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the
figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level
and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out
$120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do
without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure
the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a
better video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua


Yup...the vidcard is the problem. I have a XP1700 and a GF4 4200ti and
run ET at 1024x768 with very little jerkiness (get more jerkiness from
SOF2 BTW).

Need a GF4 or Radeon 9500 to really enjoy the game.


There's a big price jump between the Radeon 9100 and the 9500. Is it
really
worth the extra money? Or should I just stear clear of that all together
and make the move to GF4?

Your GF4 4200ti has 128MB of memory, right?

--Mitchua

i thought he said that he had a Radeon 9500??

"Mitchua" wrote in message
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"Faustus" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:45:16 GMT, "Mitchua" wrote:

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon
7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it
is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the
figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level
and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out
$120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do
without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure
the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a
better video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua


Yup...the vidcard is the problem. I have a XP1700 and a GF4 4200ti and
run ET at 1024x768 with very little jerkiness (get more jerkiness from
SOF2 BTW).

Need a GF4 or Radeon 9500 to really enjoy the game.


There's a big price jump between the Radeon 9100 and the 9500. Is it
really
worth the extra money? Or should I just stear clear of that all together
and make the move to GF4?

Your GF4 4200ti has 128MB of memory, right?

--Mitchua

Just curious, have you done any tweaks with the game itself? "I.e.
"cg_rate", "snaps" and all the other cool things?"

Xel
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"Mitchua" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...
I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon 7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out $120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a better
video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua

"Xel Lagaffe" wrote in message
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Just curious, have you done any tweaks with the game itself? "I.e.
"cg_rate", "snaps" and all the other cool things?"

Are there any resource sites I should check out? I found a bunch of RTCW
tweaks but none for Enemy Territory. I wouldn't want to do anything that
would get me PunkBusted from servers.

Mitchua



Xel
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"Mitchua" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...
I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon 7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it is a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the
figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level
and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out
$120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a better
video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua

You don't get "busted" for changing you're rate, snaps or com_maxfps. I
dunno about Wolf, but you could try
Google, with the search parameters: Console + Command + tweaks + Wolf/Quake3

I do a little Quake 3 Arena from time to time, but in the past I very much
had the same specs you have on you're machine. I did 800x600 resolution on
a ISDN dialup, and Quake ran very smoothly.

It's worth to check out! Just remember to take a backup of you're original
"config.cfg" and any other external config file you might have..

Good Luck!


Rgds,

Xel Lagaffe
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"Mitchua" wrote in message
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"Xel Lagaffe" wrote in message
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Just curious, have you done any tweaks with the game itself? "I.e.
"cg_rate", "snaps" and all the other cool things?"

Are there any resource sites I should check out? I found a bunch of RTCW
tweaks but none for Enemy Territory. I wouldn't want to do anything that
would get me PunkBusted from servers.

Mitchua



Xel
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"Mitchua" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...
I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of DDR memory and a Radeon
7000
64MB using an ASUS motherboard. I've been running Wolfenstein Enemy
Territory at 800X600 using medium detail. The game looks ok but it is
a
little jumpy on levels where it's snowing or raining, and all the
figures
look pretty boxy. What can I do to be able to raise the detail level
and
show the game "in all it's glory"? Is it as simple as dishing out
$120CND
for a Radeon 9500 or something. Is there anything else I can do
without
upgrading the processor/mobo? The levels load very fast so I'm sure
the
bottleneck is in the video system, not the processor.

Has anyone played this game with a comparable system but with a better
video
card? Can you run it at full resolution?

Thanks for your help.
--Mitchua