What's wrong with my stupid computer?
My stupid computer:
Duron 600 @800MHz
Abit KT7
Radeon 64MB DDR w/ drivers from September
128 MB SDRAM @133MHz
9GB Seagate Cheetah UW SCSI HD
SB Live
My stupid computer's problem: Low framerate!
Whenever I enter a new level or a new room or a new scene in any of my 3D accellerated games (Half Life, NOLF, System Shock 2, Alice, Unreal), the framerate slows to a slideshow for the first couple of seconds. After that, it gets a lot smoother, but it will get choppy in spurts. Eventually (maybe 15-30 seconds later), it will stop being choppy, and the framerates get really smooth. I don't know if I'm just being picky for asking that the first 15-30 seconds of a level be just as smooth as the rest of it, but I paid through the nose for my computer and I want my money's worth. Is this slowdown normal?
I can kind of live with it in levels, because I can sit there with slideshow framerates for a while before I run through the level. But in-game cutscenes, like in NOLF, don't last much longer than my framerate problem does, so the cut-scenes get ruined. Also, I tried running XL-R8R from MadOnion.com to get upgrade advice. The animation was extremely choppy, but the program told me my computer didn't have any crappy hardware and that I didn't have to upgrade anything. Do I have a legitimate problem, or am I just too picky? All I ask is 30FPS.
My stupid computer:
Duron 600 @800MHz
Abit KT7
Radeon 64MB DDR w/ drivers from September
128 MB SDRAM @133MHz
9GB Seagate Cheetah UW SCSI HD
SB Live
My stupid computer's problem: Low framerate!
Whenever I enter a new level or a new room or a new scene in any of my 3D accellerated games (Half Life, NOLF, System Shock 2, Alice, Unreal), the framerate slows to a slideshow for the first couple of seconds. After that, it gets a lot smoother, but it will get choppy in spurts. Eventually (maybe 15-30 seconds later), it will stop being choppy, and the framerates get really smooth. I don't know if I'm just being picky for asking that the first 15-30 seconds of a level be just as smooth as the rest of it, but I paid through the nose for my computer and I want my money's worth. Is this slowdown normal?
I can kind of live with it in levels, because I can sit there with slideshow framerates for a while before I run through the level. But in-game cutscenes, like in NOLF, don't last much longer than my framerate problem does, so the cut-scenes get ruined. Also, I tried running XL-R8R from MadOnion.com to get upgrade advice. The animation was extremely choppy, but the program told me my computer didn't have any crappy hardware and that I didn't have to upgrade anything. Do I have a legitimate problem, or am I just too picky? All I ask is 30FPS.
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