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JaiSe
March 16th, 2003, 06:42 PM
Ok i have a radeon9000 pro 128mb, i use ME os and when i try to play TFC i get to a point on any map and its like i get short tiny spikes of lag or loss of A LOT of fps...anybody else have this problem? is there a way to fix it or am i screwed :(
Janus
March 16th, 2003, 06:47 PM
system specs? aninstropic filtering/v-sync on? updaterate? connection?
JaiSe
March 16th, 2003, 06:57 PM
AMD athlon, MMX, 3DNow, 1.0 Ghz
320 sd RAM
Windows ME
visual sync is off, my updaterate is at 50, im on a cable connection
DestroyerX
March 16th, 2003, 07:02 PM
Are you running drivers for ME? I suggest get arid of that crap OS.
JaiSe
March 16th, 2003, 07:04 PM
I would if i had the money.. But you see I had a Geforce2 before the Radeon and TFC and other games worked perfect..almost better then my Radeon
DestroyerX
March 16th, 2003, 07:26 PM
take back the radeon and get a nvidia card
JaiSe
March 16th, 2003, 07:51 PM
Ok thx i'll see what i can do
Yes i do have a cd burner :o
JaiSe
March 16th, 2003, 09:35 PM
i use 800x600 i set my fps max at 65 and my rate at 75
JaiSe
March 16th, 2003, 11:32 PM
i'll run a virus scan tomorrow, i'll see then
March 16th, 2003, 11:50 PM
Your system is bottlenecking the card more than likely...that and if you dont want to get spikes like that turn vsync on...
JaiSe
March 17th, 2003, 07:44 PM
Ok i did a virus scan and everything is clean, I tried to play TFC in Direct 3d and it works almost better..but still chops a lil SO maybe Radeon is a D3D card?
Ktank
March 18th, 2003, 01:32 PM
I had similar problems with my new 9500 pro 128mb card. I tried lots of things, and have gotten it to be much better. I also use windows ME. The biggest thing is turning off all programs that are running in the background, using control-alt-delete except explorer and systray. I also found that the longer my computer runs the worse it gets, so a reboot before a match is always a plus. With my system, 900 athlon, 512mb and the radeon 9500 pro 128mb its my computer that is creating the bottleneck not the video card. Also in the properties tab, moving hardware acceleration from from full to one notch down help also. Click here (http://www.thecatacombs.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=293) for the help I got here in the tech section. Ace also helped me a ton, you can find him in #clansol.

Good luck
[RoC]Ktank
Jimen69
March 19th, 2003, 01:37 AM
ya i had the same prob with ME its prolly your choke because i had ME with G4 ti4200 128mb and my choke sux even with XP my choke sux ass so... i think its my compaq presario pos i need a custom comp so i can change it
JaiSe
March 20th, 2003, 06:23 PM
Well i just took the stupid card out, now i can play TFC in peace again :D
Radeons are the devil for TFC!!!