mkcollins Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 O.K. I downloaded the ueberpatch and my game does not freeze. However, now when a battle becomes involved with many characters the scolling becomes "herky jerky", the screen jumps all oer' the place. That's with mouse scroll to the borders and with the center wheel. I have a GeForce 7300 GT vc with 512MB mem and plenty of space on the HD. I do have a ~2.1 GHz cpu which is at the minimum required. Drivers are up to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaksie Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Try to lower graphics settings, turn off EAX, and switching option 'Use only one CPU' on or off. What is the name of your CPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkcollins Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 I did all that and the game runs better but still is a bit jerky. I have an Athlon XP2600 cpu which is the limit on my motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 How much RAM do you have? >= 2GB I hope! A massive GPU spec doesn't mean that much with this game, enough proper RAM is as / if not more important as it aint just pretty graphics more real time physics which aren't helped unless you've got enough raw processing grunt & plenty of memory. Sorry to rant but I've spent 20yrs proving that faster processors aint necessarily the panacea to all evils, in fact they can be just the opposite, you have to address the bottleneck, which doesn't sound like the GPU in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkcollins Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 Nope, just 1GB and the mobo supports up to only 1.5Gb. It's an old cheaper system. To upgrade to a not too expensive system, what would be the recommended specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Most people let useless garbage and spyware bung up their system. You could try cleaning out all of that stuff and your system will run smoother. I'll post some more info on what to do, but I read this on another forum. Maybe it will work for your system. Right-Clicking 'My Computer' and then Select 'Properties'. 2) Click on the 'Advanced' tab. 3) Under 'Performance', click 'Settings'. 4) Then click the 'Advanced' tab on the button that pops up. 5) Under 'Virtual Memory' at the bottom, click 'Change'. 6) Click the 'Custom Size' button. 7) For the initial size (depending on your HD space), type in anywhere from 1000-1500 (although I use 4000), and for the Maximum size type in anywhere from 2000-2500 (although I use 6000). 8) Click 'Set', and then exit out of all of the windows. 9) Finally, Restart your computer. 10) You now have a faster computer and 1-2GB of Virtual RAM..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Try out the following and your game will run faster and smoother. Use CCleaner and Glary Utilities to clean out the junk. I’ve used them both for a long time now and neither will cause you any problems. Use the cleaner and registry in CCleaner. Use the one click maintenance in Glary Utilities. http://www.ccleaner.com/ http://www.glaryutilities.com/ I also use JV16Powertools, but it can bugger up your system if you are not careful with it. The nicest sites put spyware on your system and then sell the results of tracking your net usage to marketing companies. The malware is like sand in the gears of your machine and will cause stutters and slow it down. I used Ad-Aware for a long time but recently I have been using Superantispyware and Spyware Doctor to clean out malware that my Kaspersky security system lets through. Run quick scans with both. I don’t run a full scan with Spyware Doctor because I have found it identifies part of Hyperlobby as spyware. If you find several spyware on your system, it would be a good idea to run the antispyware software in Safe Mode as well. http://www.superantispyware.com/ A free version of Spyware doctor is available with the Google Pack. http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs and uninstall all of the software that you don’t need or didn’t know was there and then clean out your registry with Ccleaner and Glary Utilities. Install the PCI Latency tool. It smoothes out stutters and improves framerate. For anything that isn’t set to 000 or 064, right click on New Latency, enter 064, then under Settings, click Save and check Apply on Startup. http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDow...oad-18183.html Right click on your task bar at the bottom of your desk top and click on Task Manager. It will tell you if you have any programs running, and under the processes tab how many services are running and the usage of your memory. I use my computer for work and have 53 processes running and have a commit charge (on my memory) of 563m out of 3939m. Gaming fiends that I know get the processes down to below 20. Alacrity turns off unnecessary programs and services. The developer initially wrote it (FSAutoStart) for MS Flight Simulator but I use it for this game, Take Command 2nd Manassas and IL2. It really helps. http://kensalter.com/forum/index.php I also use O & O Clevercache which manages my systems usage of memory. It also smoothes things out, but I paid for it. CachemanXP does the same and I think it’s free. I haven’t used it for a long time. http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=index Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkcollins Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 I had done some of that from reading your reply in another thread, except for the adware part. I use Spybot, how's that? I set my virtual memory to 4ooo/4000, that's the tops allowed. Ran the game, still a bit jerky but a little better. Cameras run great on pause, it would be nice to see that when running. Would getting another .5 G Ram do anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Have you tried reducing the resolution on your video card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 I had done some of that from reading your reply in another thread, except for the adware part. I use Spybot, how's that? I set my virtual memory to 4ooo/4000, that's the tops allowed. Ran the game, still a bit jerky but a little better. Cameras run great on pause, it would be nice to see that when running. Would getting another .5 G Ram do anything? Yes it probably will! It will allow the windows kernel to have it's own memory & let ToW have the rest. I think that the problem you have is most likely that the machine is paging/swapping because memory is full & the system has to use disk based memory to make up the shortfall. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaksie Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 It may help a bit, but the CPU will still cap the performance. I would save money for a new PC instead, since upgrade in your case will require replacing MB, CPU, RAM and video (7300 is not enough for today's 3D games) - a whole new computer. In addition, old RAM type for your current PC may even cost more than DDR2 used in most modern ones. I would also suggest building the PC yourself instead of buying it as a whole (cheaper), but this is complete offtopic. If you want us to recommend you the specs for new computer, specify the price range first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkcollins Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 I guess I'm going to go with the RAM boost and tweaks for now. A new system is the logical choice but my Finance Minister would flip her whig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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