Asheron's Call 2 choppy performance, what's the deal?

[johnjohn320]

Hey all,

I d/led the Asheron's Call 2 Free Trial (all 800+ MB of it), installed. Even in just playing the tutorial however, (seems to be all I can do at this point), the performance is rather choppy. I know, I could turn off a million options and probably speed it up, but I've already lowered the graphic quality to well below what it detected for my card, and lowered the resolution as far as it will go.

THe confusing thing is, I have 512 MB of RAM, a 2.0 Ghz Pentium 4, a GeForce3, and a 1.5MB DSL connection. Just how much does this game demand? Sheesh, I'm about double all the requirements at least...

 

[Looney]

I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

I tried both. What exactly am I choosing between there?

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

I tried both. What exactly am I choosing between there?

Software takes a lot of CPU cycles because it is emulating a sound card. Hardware takes much less.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

I tried both. What exactly am I choosing between there?

Software takes a lot of CPU cycles because it is emulating a sound card. Hardware takes much less.

So why would anybody choose software?

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

I tried both. What exactly am I choosing between there?

Software takes a lot of CPU cycles because it is emulating a sound card. Hardware takes much less.

So why would anybody choose software?

Just make sure it's on hardware.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

I tried both. What exactly am I choosing between there?

Software takes a lot of CPU cycles because it is emulating a sound card. Hardware takes much less.

So why would anybody choose software?

that is mainly for people with crappy on-board who wn't go out and get a sound card. like me. for now.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I don't know... ran fine on my 1700XP with a ATI Radeon 7500... for your sound, do you have hardware acceleratin or software? Make sure it's hardware.

I tried both. What exactly am I choosing between there?

Software takes a lot of CPU cycles because it is emulating a sound card. Hardware takes much less.

So why would anybody choose software?

Just make sure it's on hardware.

Lol ok. I did, and although I could've sworn I tried that before to no avail, it seemed to work this time. It's playable now, no big skips or hiccups, but it still is awfully slow and a little choppy, and I still have all the graphics details etc turned down. Pretty disappointing given that again, my specs more than satisfy the reqs.

 

[johnjohn320]

Any other thoughts?

 

[Looney]

It's your videocard that's holding you back. I hope it's at least 64mb... in anycase, pick up a ti4200 from Hotdeals (i've seen them going for like $80 or so), and you'll be more than set.

 

[everman]

I played that during its beta test for a while (beta 0 till the end), certainly demands a good vid card like a 4200+. nice graphics though.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
It's your videocard that's holding you back. I hope it's at least 64mb... in anycase, pick up a ti4200 from Hotdeals (i've seen them going for like $80 or so), and you'll be more than set.

I didn't realize the GeForce3 had become outdated so fast...

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
It's your videocard that's holding you back. I hope it's at least 64mb... in anycase, pick up a ti4200 from Hotdeals (i've seen them going for like $80 or so), and you'll be more than set.

I didn't realize the GeForce3 had become outdated so fast...

Geforce3 is at least 2 years old now... like i said, you can pick up a ti4200 in hotdeals now for a good price, i would do that.

 

[Nyical]

Bah, I play it both on a laptop and desktop, with lapop all I have is a GForce2 go 32 megs graphics are turned down, 512megs, 1GHz cpu
all I did was turn sound off and it runs smooth, desk top everything is up to highest settings but as soon as I turn the sound on with HW accel
and it chops as soon as I turn it off it runs smooth.