Wayne Posted July 25, 2000 Share Posted July 25, 2000 I have an AMD 6K 450MHz w 64RAM TNT2 Riva w 32RAM ESS Solo sound chips. When I play large scenarios or am on a large map with lots of terrain features, my game scrolling slows down. Is there anyting that can be done or is this something that I'll have to live with. Please note that my knowledge of computer language is limited so please be detailed if you contribute to this thread. ------------------ Blessed be the Lord my strength who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikester Posted July 25, 2000 Share Posted July 25, 2000 My buddy and I both have 64MB system ram like yourself and have both been seeing similar problems. He just went and got another 64MB of ram and says that it does make a difference on the large maps w/ large numbers of units that we've both been having problems with. He said things loaded more quickly and scrolling around the map / replaying the movies went more smoothly as well. I'm going to go over and get my memory tonight. Mikester out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted July 25, 2000 Author Share Posted July 25, 2000 Mikester, thanks for the tip. That was going to be my next move but I wanted some feedback before doing so. If anyone else has some thoughts on this please let me [us] know. Wayne. ------------------ Blessed be the Lord my strength who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikester Posted July 25, 2000 Share Posted July 25, 2000 Wayne, The other thing that would probably help would be a "better" video card. Only "problem" is that the one you have is pretty darn good already. So while I'd imagine you would see some improvement w/ getting the "latest and greatest" video card vs. the one you have now, it probably wouldn't warrant the cost to obtain one. In other words the benefit to cost ratio of such a move in your case probably isn't high enough to warrant the new card. Of course, if you have lot's of money you don't know what to do with, then go for it. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolguy101 Posted July 25, 2000 Share Posted July 25, 2000 How much does memory cost these days??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikester Posted July 25, 2000 Share Posted July 25, 2000 It's about $1 US per MB. The deal I'm going to pick up here in about an hour is $79.99 for 64MB DIMM w/ $20 rebate = $59.99. About the best I've seen recently. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikester Posted July 26, 2000 Share Posted July 26, 2000 Adding the extra 64MB of memory definitely helped my system with the larger maps / greater numbers of units. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted July 27, 2000 Share Posted July 27, 2000 Adding memory at least up to 128MB is your first priority. Lowering the tree density also helps. I myself have a: Celeron-433 128MB RAM 32MB D-Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra SB Live! X-Gamer w/LiveWare 3.0 I usually play with "sparse tree coverage". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted July 27, 2000 Author Share Posted July 27, 2000 I have decided that I will add extra RAM. Thanks for the input Wayne. ------------------ Blessed be the Lord my strength who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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