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Giants: Citizen Kabuto runs choppy as hell no matter what!

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SilentBoB

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I have a 64Mb Geforce 2 GTS, 1.2Ghz T-bird, and 256Mb of ram. I have put EVERYTHING on the lowest setting (details are all on low, bumpmapping is all off, visibility is on lowest setting, etc.) and FSAA is off. Even in 640x480x16 it is so choppy it is unplayable. What is wrong here? I can't figure out for the life of me what I am doing wrong. All my other games don't have any problems (Hitman, Half Life, MDK2, to name a few). Can anybody help me PLEASE?
 
Are you running the latest drivers for your video card (or at leats the WHQL ones off their website)? Did you install the VIA 4-in-1 drivers for your motherboard?
 
I am using the 12.90 detonators. I TRIED to install the 4-in-1 drivers, but after restarting, the computer would freeze before it could get into windows and so I had to go into windows in safe mode and uninstall them.
 
If you have an AMD 760-based chipset, have you installed the AGP miniport driver? That can really affect the performance of AGP video cards if you don't have it installed.
 
The 4-in-1 drivers are a necessity for boards with a VIA chipset (in your case, the south bridge, in mine the north bridge as well), so that may have something to do with it. Did you reinstall Windows when you installed the MB? Or did you use another method? If you just changed MB's and then booted up and let Windows redetect everything, that's a bad sign. Windows *always* has to be reinstalled when you change motherboards, and from my understanding the order of installation is Windows-> 4-in-1 drivers-> service packs (if it's Win2K). If you have junk in your system from your previous MB, then that might be causing part of the problem. I pulled my SB Live and tried to install my Santa Cruz, but the drivers refused to install because there was still Creative stuff left over in the system, and I couldn't get it in until I did a clean format and install (which I was doing anyway because I changed MB).

Also, have you installed any patches for Giants? There may be a fix for your issue in the latest patch if it's not installed already.
 
I am running Windows98SE and I reinstalled it after installing the new mobo. I will try installing the giants patch.
 
Is your 256MB of Ram on one stick or two? If it is on two then remove one of them and try the game just running 128MB. Then swap with the other one, if only to establish that one of the sticks maybe failing.

If you have one 256MB Stick, is there anyway you can try another stick from somewhere. The reason I mention this is it happened to me very recently in Max Payne and it was to be a failing DIMM

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