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NWN slow framerate, texture swapping?

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techwanabe

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I'm running Never Winter Nights on my system in the sig below. It seems to be pretty jerky in the animation when rotating the screen or characters moving on the screen. Could this be blamed on texture swapping due to 32 mb memory on my video cards and would going to a card with more memory (and speed of course) make a big difference? Say a GF4 Ti4200 128 mb?
 
Yes, that is part of your problem. You are also a little low on processing power as well to run NWN's with a lot of features enabled, but a video card would be a good start in speeding things up.
 
I think the 128Mb would help, I played it last on a P4 2.1G/512 Ram/GF4 128MB at 1280x960 and it only would slightly slow down when a good-sized battle with spells flying was going on.

Mike G
 
Noting the "recommended CPU speed at 800 or better, you'd think I would see jerky motion since I am well over that speed, but I do. But I'm thinking my initial hardware upgrade would need to be the video and your answers seem to confirm that.

I'm thinking a GF4ti4200 would be the best performance for the money, while keeping price modest. Concur?

Oh, BTW - I've been playing it at 1024x768 resolution.


Here are the system requirements from Bioware:

The current Windows system requirements for Neverwinter Nights are as follows:

Required / Recommended
Processor Pentium® II 450 MHz or AMD K6 450 MHz / Pentium® III 800 MHz or AthlonTM 800 MHz
Operating System Windows 98/ME/2000SP2/XP
RAM (Windows 98/ME) 96 MB / 128 MB
RAM (Windows 2000/XP) 128 MB / 256 MB
Hard Disk Installation 1.2 GB / 2.0 GB
CD ROM or CD/DVD ROM Drive 8X
DirectX DirectX® version 8.1
Video Card 16 MB TNT2-class OpenGL 1.2 compliant video card / NVIDIA GeForce 2/ATI Radeon
Sound Card DirectX® certified sound card
Multiplayer IPX or TCP/IP via LAN or Internet
Multiplayer via Modem 56k (2 players max) / broadband


 
The GF 4 Ti-4200 would work but at this stage of the game I'd find the closest DX9 card in price, unless you plan on upgrading in the near future.
I won't recommend one brand or the other, I've had good luck with my GF4 and truth be told it handle most of todays games well enough (without much if any AF/AA) but I'm a spendthrift so I have a new card on the way.
Your choice-I think the ATI 9500/9600 series or maybe the "new core" NV 5600 would be the closest cards in the Ti-4200 price range but not sure how they work with the NWN engine?
I'm sure someone that plays NWN and has one of those cards will comment.

Mike G
 
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