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[mogadishu]

Originally posted by cpt_azad@20 September 2003 - 21:36

It can run stuff like midnight club 2, and halo quite fast, with only the latter having to be set on lower detail mode.

lucky! can u run halo good on the 2nd level (inevitably called halo), cuz the first level, i get really good fps (20-24), but when i get to the second level, it goes really slow. maybe it's because of the open area. if u tweaked it (halo, the game), could u pls share ur wisdom oh wise mogadisu?

yea, i didnt really care for the game that much.. but i did play most of level 2. Open areas worked fine. Make sure that nothing else is running. Kazaa, souleek, .. as much as you can turn of, turn off.

Then i set everything to the lowest.. keep the resolution the same. I tested it with everything on high, and the graphics arent that much better than when they are on really low. When on the lowest they look great still. So I guess you could give that a try and see what happens.

[cpt_azad]

thanks mogadishu, worked like a charm. i opened up task manager, and i had so many processes going on, after ending like half of them, 2nd level on halo worked great. now i run it on 1152x864 res with everthing at low. i found a really sweet tweak that anyone can use (make sure though that ur vid card has latest drivers and that the vid card isn't shared memory). i don't know if it works with ati, but give it a try:

control panel>appearance and themes>display>settings tab>advanced button>click on ur vid card tab (top right, usually)>direct 3d settings, click on the drop down menu that says mip map detail to the right of it and select high performance. the graphics in the games that i have haven't gone down a bit, and i get 7-10 fps more!!!! , this is by far the best tweak i've ever used for games!!!! oh, and another crazy ass trick clears up resources and cleans up ur cpu power, so u can play graphic intensive games: click start>run>"Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks" , hit okay and don't do anything for 10-20 minutes, it'll look like it's doing nothing (the computer), but infact it is, so read a book or something until 20 minutes is up. now start up that graphic intensive game, and wholla! before applying the above mentioned tweaks to my comp, i was running the already "enhanced" doom 3 alpha at 10 fps average, after the tweaks, 20 freaking fps!!!!! , there is a god!

[j4y3m]

I Might Upgrade

[fr600]

2 suggestions...

1..Buy or download games according to ur system configuration

2..Upgrade ur system's configuration according to game's requirements

[abu_has_the_power]

this might help. i'm not sure where u live, but over here (chicago suburbs) all the major stores have HUGE CLEARANCES the weekend of thanksgiving. i'm talking give free shit, half price shit, and all that. usually they are stores like Best Buy or Circuit City or CompUSA. Check them out. I'm goin to get 2 17in lcds and maybe some ram. u should have a look. for most of ur components, i would still rather buy online, cuz videocards might not be that cheap than say newegg. still, last year, the price of a gforce fx 5200 dropped to $60 at best buy during the thanksgiving sales

[Wolfmight]

upgrade yo video card to atleast Geforce FX 5200 128mb or ATI Radeon 9200 128mb... They will make a better difference in speed at a cost of $60-70

[j4y3m]

ima download halo will it work actually i wont