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Guest Beast Biter
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I recently upgraded my computer from an athlon 2000+ and epox motherboard to an Athlon 2800+ and Asus A7N8X-E Delxue Motherboard. Now my video is very choppy in subspace even though I have high framerate 400-600 at 1920x1440.

 

my setup:

Athlon 2800+

A7N8X-E Deluxe

2 sticks of 256 MB PC 2100 Crucial

Chaintech GeForce Ti4200

Western Digital Raptor in Sata

Two IBM Hard drives on IDE

Windows XP

 

Stuff I've tried:

Fresh install of XP, latest drivers, all updates, etc..

Fast Write on/off in BIOS

Spread Spectrum disabled/.50/1.00

Vertical Sync On/Off

Different video card

Different monitor

Unplugging IDE hard drives

Disable hardware acceleration

All kinds of different nView options

All Continuum advanced options, page flipping, software emulation, etc

 

Im really stumped on this one, have been trying to fix it for a couple weeks. Subspace ran great on my last computer. Other than this problem, my computer seems to run great. Anyone have any ideas?

Guest Beast Biter
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Im using 9.0b and latest video card drivers from nvidia.
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You can do or try 3 things

1. re-install your video card 2. Re-install Subspace

3. Re-locate your v/card to another slot (The slot that the video card is in now may be bad)

 

Or you can try running Debug. You will find this in windows folder

Posted

open your ctm client, go to View -> Advanced Options and make sure that Software Emulation, Avoid page flipping and No Framerate Limit are DISABLED. that should fix your problemo. i think blum.gif

 

 

EDIT: on second thought, you can have no framerate limit on, but try it without it first and see how you like it. you really don't need more then 75 fps.

Guest Beast Biter
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I've tried playing with the advanced options but it doesnt help. On my last computer I played with avoid page flipping and no framerate limit on and it seemed to work fine.
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Stuff I've tried:

Fresh install of XP, latest drivers, all updates, etc..

Fast Write on/off in BIOS

Spread Spectrum disabled/.50/1.00

Vertical Sync On/Off

Different video card

Different monitor

Unplugging IDE hard drives

Disable hardware acceleration

All kinds of different nView options

All Continuum advanced options, page flipping, software emulation, etc

Guest Beast Biter
Posted

tried it..didnt help

 

also tried various resolution and color depth settings but same problem

Posted
tried it..didnt help

 

also tried various resolution and color depth settings but same problem

how about running in compatibilty mode and selecting things like 256 colours etc to see what happens?

Guest Beast Biter
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Just installed Dungeon Siege tonight and it ran great...cant understand it!!

 

Have tried various compatibility modes- wont start in 95 and 98, starts in 2000 and NT but freezes when I try to enter a zone...other compatibility options dont seem to affect it.

 

I think Im going to try another motherboard next week (non nForce). Has anyone else had problems with nForce2 motherboards and continuum?

  • 2 weeks later...
Guest AndroidAkira
Posted

Have had the exact same problem twice!

 

The only solution that worked for me was to install older graphic drivers.

Posted
You can do or try 3 things

1. re-install your video card  2. Re-install Subspace

3. Re-locate your v/card to another slot (The slot that the video card is in now may be bad)

 

Or you can try running  Debug. You will find this in windows folder

umm candy there is only 1 agp slot you cant put it in a pci slot of iots agp and im hopinh your using a video card thatr uns on agp slots?

  • 7 months later...
Posted

Hiya,

 

I too have the same problem with my new computer setup.

 

DFI Lanparty Nforce 2 ultra b (Motherboard)

Athlon 3000+ (400mhz bus)

1 GB Corsair (400mhz) pc3200

 

HIS Radeon 9800 Pro 128 video Card

--not sure what else matters at this point.

 

I have tried every possible setting in the advanced options in Continuum .39pr1

 

The walls and what not in the game seem to lurch and it is not smooth.

Kind of feels like it does when I am lagging but I have perfect pings and no packet loss to speak of.

 

It does not matter what resolution I run from 640 to 1600 it is all the same.

 

Help me if you can.

I have not tried another vid card yet, though I guess that is next.

 

Kitchen Sink (though not as dangerous as I usuallly am :(

Posted

Try older drivers first. Make sure to uninstall the newer drivers before installing older ones too.

 

If that doesn't fix it, tell me what your FPS is (press F when the ESC menu is open to show it - it's a small red number at the top of the screen).

Posted
Try older drivers first. Make sure to uninstall the newer drivers before installing older ones too.

 

If that doesn't fix it, tell me what your FPS is (press F when the ESC menu is open to show it - it's a small red number at the top of the screen).

 

I will try the older drivers but as for the frames per second --

 

at 1600x1200 I get 60 if i don't check the box in advanced options to free up the framerate, but if I check it I get like 420 or around that.

 

Either way same effect no difference.

 

I will try old drivers, but I would hate to have to break a cutting edge game to play SS. ( though if truth be told -- there is no better game than SS)

 

Kitchen Sink :blink:

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Try older drivers first. Make sure to uninstall the newer drivers before installing older ones too.

 

If that doesn't fix it, tell me what your FPS is (press F when the ESC menu is open to show it - it's a small red number at the top of the screen).

 

Ok, Second Reply :blink:

 

I tried Old Drivers, aside from making my system flaky and unstable, they did the same as the Latest Drivers in SS.

 

Any more suggestions?

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Hmm... when did the problem start? Or has it always done this?

 

Try upgrading the motherboard drivers too.

 

I have up and downgraded every driver that there is to do it to, lol. Even 3 different bios revisions, thought not just for this reason

 

I am almost convinced that SS just does not like RADEON 9800 Pro Cards, lol

 

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP

I am about to lose a long and fun subspace career.

 

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