New GF3 Ti200 - games choppy??

[CiSmAXz]

I went out and picked up that GF3 Ti200 special the have at BB today and so far I have to say I am a little disappointed. I jumped straight into Medal Of Honor and bumped all the video settings up in the game and it plays horrible. Res is at 800x600 and it is still choppy. I am guessing I need to change some settings??

XP1600
256 MB DDR 2100 - could this be it? Not enough?
MSI KT7 Pro2-RU
Asus 50x
Plextor 12/10/32A
SB Live
Linksys LNE100TX net card

 

[insdav3]

hey.... before i fried my ti200 (getting it replaced) I had it at a friend's house running on a 900mhz T-bird w/256 PC-133. it ran great. I'm not sure what your problem is.... i'll let you know as soon as i get my new ti200 ..... i'm on 1700+ right now....

 

[CiSmAXz]

Any suggestions?

 

[BD231]

If your running a VIA chipset try installing the 4-in-1 drivers, alot of people have been forgeting.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Its a known fact that MOH's framerates drop down to 20-30 FPS in some areas. And this is on systems that are faster than yours.

Don't believe me.....go to Allied Assult under the General Discussion forum. There are are numerous posts about low FPS in this game.

The low framerates in MOH is due to the game engine...not your system. Everyone who is playing MOH is having this problem. We can only hope it gets better with future patches.

 

[Lars]

<< I went out and picked up that GF3 Ti200 special the have at BB today and so far I have to say I am a little disappointed. I jumped straight into Medal Of Honor and bumped all the video settings up in the game and it plays horrible. Res is at 800x600 and it is still choppy. I am guessing I need to change some settings??

XP1600
256 MB DDR 2100 - could this be it? Not enough?
MSI KT7 Pro2-RU
Asus 50x
Plextor 12/10/32A
SB Live
Linksys LNE100TX net card >>



I have a T-Bird 1GHz and a GF3 Ti200 (Gainward @ 240/520) and Medal of Honor plays very smooth at 1024x768 with everything maxed out except the shadows. (Shadows at the lowest setting)

edit: I also have the patch for version 1.1

 

[scoobydooby]

I agree with Lars, MoH runs quite nicely at 1280x1024 for me with everything at max. I have a gainward TI 200 and 1700+. So not everyone is having problems with MoH. I would try other games first to see if it's just that game.
Scoob

 

[BFG10K]

Did you correctly remove all traces of your previous video card?

Also you might be running in PCI mode. Make sure your AGP aperture size is at least 128 MB.

 

[Mem]

Do you have FSAA enabled if so disable that,also check in Bios you`ve all video shadowing disabled, try closing other software that runs in the background like anti-virus etc before you run the game.

 

[CiSmAXz]

BFG10K - You say at least 128 MB for the aperture size. What exactly does this do and what is the highest I should set it. I know that it is set at 64 right now.

Mem - what is FSAA?

 

[Mem]

CiSmAXz,FSAA means "Full Scene Anti-aliasing" , what it does in the very basic sense is get rid of jagged lines, for info there`s an old article on by Anandtech here and another one here

,it will lower your gaming speed if FSAA is enabled, you should be ok running it enabled with a GF3 Ti200 but you can disable it to see if your choppyness goes away,it`s in the Nvidia display properties display panel there`s an option to turn it off.

Btw what OS(Win98 or 2k/XP) do you have?

 

[CiSmAXz]

win 2k

 

[Mem]

CiSmAXz,did you install the VIA 4 in 1 drivers like bdog231 said?

 

[aldamon]

I agree with the FSAA diagnosis. It's "On" by default when you install a new NVIDIA card. Probably so NVIDIA can release a new driver with it "Off" by default and blow away all the newbs with the good performance lol.

 

[CiSmAXz]

I have installed the VIA 4in1 drivers when I built this system (about a month ago). Do I need to reinstall them since I changed the video card? I also do not see the option for FSAA. And can someone expand more on the aperture setting in the BIOS?

Just updated the VIA 4in1 drivers