streetpizza on 23/3/2001 at 18:30
I play DX on a GEForce 2 on an AMD 800 T-bird system with 128 MB of RAM.
During the game, I constantly get slowdowns and choppiness in certain areas of the game (the opening movie comes to mind). Also, I am unable to play the game on the highest detail levels without dropping my frame rate to nothing, which to my knowledge, my system would be perfectly capable of doing.
If anyone has any pointers for reducing the choppiness in graphics (and audio sometimes, as well) and improving my system's performance on the highest detail levels, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
frozenman on 23/3/2001 at 21:30
I hear the new SP patch speeds up everything.
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O.T.2000 on 23/3/2001 at 22:24
Listen to frozenman.
Look around this forum too, I think there's a link to a DX tweak guide somewhere...but get the patch first.
streetpizza on 23/3/2001 at 22:39
Oddly enough, I have the patch =/
Still goofs on me
Gothik on 23/3/2001 at 23:39
Getting some more RAM would be a start, Deus Ex is the most RAM hungry game I have ever come across. I've got 384 MB installed and Deus Ex regularly uses up to (and sometimes over) 180 MB of that.
I'm running the game on a T-Bird 900, with a GeForce 256 DDR, with all details on and I regularly get around 40 fps, though there are a couple of areas that it will get rather choppy. It's just the way the game is and until we all have 3Gb CPUs and GeForce 5s
we'll probably have to live with it.
But yes, it does sound as though your system should be capable of much better performance.
I found the latest SP patch did improve things, as did the latest set of drivers for my card (Based on the Nvidia 650 drivers).
davpod on 24/3/2001 at 21:48
My system:
Athlon 850, 128MB, SBLive!Value, Geforce2GTS64MB.
I got choppiness in sound and video all over the place (especially in the intro movie as you describe) until I got the latest set of AGP drivers for my motherboard off my motherboard manufacturer's website. In the release notes that came with the drivers it talked about specific problems with the motherboard and Geforce based cards. You might want to try checking that out. It almost completely removed the choppiness and I am now able to play the game in 32-bit mode at 1024x768 with all details on.
frozenman on 25/3/2001 at 00:11
You think YOU got a tough game of DX?
450mhz Celeron
64mbs RAM
16mb Voodoo 3 3000
It gets rough sometimes.
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davpod on 25/3/2001 at 08:37
But at least you've got a Voodoo frozenman. The game would be unplayable on that system with an Nvidia card.
JordanCS on 27/3/2001 at 04:23
I'm running DX on a P2-350/160MB/GeForce2MX. It runs just fine. I run at 800x600 with all detail up, and it's fine. 1024x768 is mostly playable, but slows down from time to time. No slowdown problems at 800x600, though. Not bad, huh?
Jordan
ignatios on 27/3/2001 at 07:10
i think i'm the worst yet:
400Mhz
128MB RAM
ATI Rage Fury Pro
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/eek.gifi run it in OpenGL and it's not bad ... not bad at all. my desktop is set to 32bpp and the game 16 ... but the game looks like it's at 32. when my desktop is at 16 it looks like 16. when the *game* is at 32 however, it slows to a crawl...but the game at 16 (with 32bpp on my desktop) looks just as good as 32 AFAIK.
i run it at 640x480 ... sure i've got a little more RAM frozenman, but you've got that voodoo3 ... it's a Glide game.
things get a little rough only when something happens that makes the game load some new textures and swap some stuff out ... my display doesn't get updated for 5-6 seconds ... but the game continues.
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