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Game Performance Question

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Garet Jax

Diamond Member
Hello all,

I am playing KOTOR. I have 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and AMD Thunderbird 1.33GHz chip.

I have been playing the game with no problems for about 1.5 weeks. When I reached a new level, then game became unplayable (very slow response).

I disabled all sound and eye candy - this did not help at all.

I ran the game diagnostics and it said everything passed except for my chip. It said I met the minimum of 1.2Ghz, but not the "recommended" of 1.6Ghz.

Other than the chip, what else could it be (especially with no sound or eye candy)? Thanks.

PS - I ask this question because it is not easy to upgrade the chip with my current configuration. So if I do upgrade it will likely have to be MB, RAM, chip and probably PS.
 
Hmm, That game sounds CPU intensive because your video card should be good enough. Oh are you playing this ga,me online or single player?

Ausm
 
Originally posted by: Ausm
Hmm, That game sounds CPU intensive because your video card should be good enough. Oh are you playing this ga,me online or single player?

Ausm
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Single Player.
 
More memory always helps, especially for online games that load really large maps, but in your case, I'd much rather upgrade the CPU and motherboard first.
 
its weird that you played the game for that long and it just suddenly started acting up... sure your cpu is a little dated but your video card is more than adequate... i can run anything including doom3 on my 9500pro, altho my processor and ram are a lil better (barton2600, 1.5gig)

during or around those 1.5 weeks that u played with no problems did u change anything in your system? install a new program, updated drivers or something? is only the game slow? i have a hard time believing that the game would randomly get really slow if everything else remained the same...
 
Originally posted by: franguinho
its weird that you played the game for that long and it just suddenly started acting up... sure your cpu is a little dated but your video card is more than adequate... i can run anything including doom3 on my 9500pro, altho my processor and ram are a lil better (barton2600, 1.5gig)

during or around those 1.5 weeks that u played with no problems did u change anything in your system? install a new program, updated drivers or something? is only the game slow? i have a hard time believing that the game would randomly get really slow if everything else remained the same...
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Good thoughts. My machine configuration has been pretty stagnant for a while (much longer than when I started the game).

What does a game use the CPU for? In other words, what could be different about this level than all other levels? The slow down was pretty instantaneous. As soon as I started this level, bam (I feel like Madden) it slowed down.
 
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