canassa on 22/5/2006 at 03:49
Hello everyone,
I've trying to play TDS in my system without much sucess. The game is simply running too slow. I already disabled everything I could, checked the tweaks, but the game is still running at 8FPS!
I believe that the dinamic shadows are the problem, so I would like to remove them if possible. Does anyone knows how to do that?
Thanks,
Canassa
P.S.: I have a Athlon 64 3000+ and a GeForce 6200 card
Komag on 22/5/2006 at 03:53
:laff:
I don't think it's easily possible, but even if you could, you would just ruin the whole game, not a good idea
canassa on 22/5/2006 at 04:55
Yeah, I know it would probably ruin the game but it was my last hope to play it :(
But thanks anyway :)
Ultraviolet on 22/5/2006 at 05:34
What the shit? 8FPS consistently on that setup? You should start at tweakguides.com and then after that see if maybe you have some major cooling problems or smoething.
Sluggs on 22/5/2006 at 15:56
Have you tried going into the NVidia control panel and turning off Antialiasing and set the image settings to "High Performance" What about yor screen res? Have you set that lower too?
I have exactly the same CPU and graphics card. It was a little choppy for me but not that bad! How's your bios settings? Have you got AGP fast writes enabled?
ascottk on 22/5/2006 at 16:15
The GeForce 6200 may be at fault. The memory bus is only 64 or 128 bit so there's the biggest culprit to bad framerates. There's some tweaked drivers and overclocking utilities that could boost performance. Also, there's a small chance you could unlock the masked pixel pipelines that could bring you to the level of a 6600.
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http://www.doomedpc.com/?q=node/36)
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http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35366)
Later versions of the 6200 cannot be overclocked or unlocked.
You can find some tweaked drivers here (they mainly unlock advanced registry settings you can access from the display settings).
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http://downloads.guru3d.com/)
OrbWeaver on 22/5/2006 at 16:20
I'm sure I got better than 8FPS when I had a 5200 (which was also 64-bit), so I would expect the 6200 to be at least slightly faster, unless nVidia care so little about their budget range that they produce worse performance in newer cards.
ascottk on 22/5/2006 at 16:24
Quote Posted by OrbWeaver
I'm sure I got better than 8FPS when I had a 5200 (which was also 64-bit), so I would expect the 6200 to be at least slightly faster, unless nVidia care so little about their budget range that they produce worse performance in newer cards.
I had a 4200 ti and the fps I was getting was about the same as my 6200. The only reason I bought the 6200 was because it was cheap and it supports the latest shaders (aside from the more advanced ones in the gf 7 series).
Also, there's some versions of the 6200 that use system memory.
june gloom on 22/5/2006 at 16:38
Quote Posted by OrbWeaver
I'm sure I got better than 8FPS when I had a 5200 (which was also 64-bit), so I would expect the 6200 to be at least slightly faster, unless nVidia care so little about their budget range that they produce worse performance in newer cards.
agreed. the game's even playable on my little 5500, and i can have most graphical stuff turned on with little loss in performance.
sooner or later i'll be able to use high-res textures, and maybe crank everything up to max. but that's a task for another computer.
voodoo47 on 23/5/2006 at 02:22
this seems like an ugly driver problem.make sure you have the latest directx/chipset/graphics/sound drivers installed..
