Postal 2 + Geforce 4 Mx440 Help

[Vamp]

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?

[simmonz]

The MX cards are the crappest you can buy you nub

[bigfoot1942]

Originally posted by simmonz@1 June 2003 - 18:25
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.

[Vamp]

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.

[gamer]

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.

[googleman]

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

[itykii]

Make sure you have the latest drivers from nvidia.com...
make sure no other prgrams are running in the backround..

[Pitbul]

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.

[Kevhead2]

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

[Nightwolf]

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.