I have a P4 1.7ghz, 256 megs ram with a Geforce 4 mx440 3D card, yet Postal 2 runs like crap... I can play other games like Enter The Matrix, which require the same power perfectly, any ideas of how to get better performance?
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I have a P4 1.7ghz, 256 megs ram with a Geforce 4 mx440 3D card, yet Postal 2 runs like crap... I can play other games like Enter The Matrix, which require the same power perfectly, any ideas of how to get better performance?
The MX cards are the crappest you can buy you nub
indeed. GF4 440MX sucks bigtime. it is incompatible with DirectX 9.0 as far as i know, or at least its giving problems.Quote:
Originally posted by simmonz@1 June 2003 - 18:25
The MX cards are the crappest you can buy you nub
yes yes I know they're crap...but they're a big improvement over a fucking SiS...I just want to know why the card runs Enter The Matrix fine but stutters on Postal.
my old pc has a geforce mx440 in it and it runs every game out there fine. i don't know why every one says the card sucks. it can runs every game currently out there just fine. my old pc stats:
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952mhz athlon processor
512mb pc133 sdram
geforce mx440 64mb ddr
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anyone who says that the card sucks has never used one!
try messing with the performanvce settings. postal 2 runs fine on it.
geforce 4 mx440 ddr does not suck, i use one and now , my games run smoothly, (compared to my voodoo4 or tnt2) you lot have obviously judged it by its price, which is a bad judging perimiter since you lot get top notch games off kazaa for free
Make sure you have the latest drivers from nvidia.com...
make sure no other prgrams are running in the backround..
hate to tell u but its not the Video Card its the owner. i have Postal 2 and my spec are 2.4 Ghz P4 520 DDR Ram 64Mb Intel Extreme Graphic Card and that is one crappy video card and it runs perfectly smooth. mess around with ur setting in the Game and PC.
The Specs for the MX 440 are not that bad:
GPU
nVidia GeForce4 MX440se
Memory
64MB SDR
Core Clock
250 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory Bandwidth
3.2GB/sec.
RAMDAC
350 MHz
Fill Rate
1.1 Billion texels/sec.
Triangles per Second
34 Million
Bus Type
AGP 2x/4x
OS Support
Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP or LINUX
Ports
VGA & TV-Out
Maximum 3D Resolution
2048 x 1536 @ 75Hz
I have a TI 4200, Specs are:
GPU
NVIDIA® Geforce4 Ti 4200
Memory
128MB DDR
Core Clock
250 Mhz
Memory Clock
500MHz
RAMDAC
350 MHz
Fill Rate (texels/sec.)
4 Billion
Memory Bandwidth
8GB/sec
Operations/sec.
1.03 Trillion
Bus Type
AGP 2X/4X
OS Support
Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP or Linux
Ports
VGA out & TV/S Video Out.
I have seen the MX 420 run games at 60-70 FPS.
It may be just a driver problem
WHY IS EVERYONE BEING SO RUDE? I don't like what is happening to this board. Jesus Christ, if you've solved a similar problem just post a possible solution. Don't just post a message to say "this card sucks" or "you're a moron"! That doesn't accomplish anything, and it makes people less likely to help YOU when you need help.
Vamp, as some of the more helpful people have said, try updating you drivers from the manufacturer's website and lowering your resolution and other display settings within the game. You could also try defragging your hard drive and tweaking your virtual memory settings. As for your question about why one game runs smoothly while another one doesn't - it's just a matter of quality. Some developers can make a game that runs smoothly at a high resolution, while others don't. Maybe if they release an update patch for the game, it might help. But for now you just might have to play at a lower res.
Thanks... I'll reinstall and try now, however I remember that there weren't many graphical options to change... I do have the latest 3D card drivers.
Ok, I lowered all the settings to low, and the game runs alright, but nothwing amazing... Do you other Mx440ers play with the same low settings?
hey funny man why u use the Gf4 mx440 compare with old Voodoo 4, & tnt2.. LMAO u so damn funny. IF you want to compare.. do with with ATI Radeon. LAMOQuote:
Originally posted by googleman@1 June 2003 - 21:56
geforce 4 mx440 ddr does not suck, i use one and now , my games run smoothly, (compared to my voodoo4 or tnt2) you lot have obviously judged it by its price, which is a bad judging perimiter since you lot get top notch games off kazaa for free
haha GEFORCE 2 mx 400 runs the same as ur cheapass card <but....................now ive got the new GEFORCE-FX 5200 which burns ATI and ur out of date GEFORCE mx440 or what everz HAHAHA buy a new card
GEFORCE-FX 5200. sucks big time also. It is mx card with directx 9 support. pretty sad lolQuote:
Originally posted by i_have_a.d.d.@3 June 2003 - 00:48
haha GEFORCE 2 mx 400 runs the same as ur cheapass card <but....................now ive got the new GEFORCE-FX 5200 which burns ATI and ur out of date GEFORCE mx440 or what everz HAHAHA buy a new card
The TI 4600 is down to $200 on tigerdirect.com
GEFORCE-FX 5200. sucks big time also. It is mx card with directx 9 support. pretty sad lol [/b][/quote]Quote:
Originally posted by showstopper496+2 June 2003 - 18:17--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (showstopper496 @ 2 June 2003 - 18:17)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--i_have_a.d.d.@3 June 2003 - 00:48
haha GEFORCE 2 mx 400 runs the same as ur cheapass card <but....................now ive got the new GEFORCE-FX 5200 which burns ATI and ur out of date GEFORCE mx440 or what everz HAHAHA buy a new card
[CODE]hahahahaa NO .its twice @s fast as the MX ,ATI has way 2 many clitches so theres all ways gona B a need 4 a grafics patch, FX is not is not like a fucken MX card FUCK no,and can run all games @ higer resolutions then those shityy MX cards on all games
PS i bet u HAVE a dam ATI well about 80 % of new games R now optimized 2 run on Nvida's new technology
"THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED"
NVIDIA WILL TAKE OVER THE GAMING WORLD CAUSE THEIR CHEAPER AND FASTER
SO haha U WASTE MORE OF UR PRECius MONEY FOR like 3 seconds of a diff. in loading
Actually, idiot, The Mx440 is twice as fast as a Geforce 2 ultra... The FX5200 if a fucking shit card, sounds like a fucking leaf-blower...I'm getting the FX5900 in 2 weeks...That's a card.Quote:
Originally posted by i_have_a.d.d.@3 June 2003 - 00:48
haha GEFORCE 2 mx 400 runs the same as ur cheapass card <but....................now ive got the new GEFORCE-FX 5200 which burns ATI and ur out of date GEFORCE mx440 or what everz HAHAHA buy a new card
And by the way, learn how to spell, no one can understand what the fuck you're talking about.