If this is the wrong place for this/has been mentioned before, feel free to kill me:
Compaq Presario V5000
XP Home
Service pack 2
AMD Turiton 64 Mobile Technology ML-37
ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 Series
latest drivers installed (about 2-3 months ago)
1.59 GHz, 1GB RAM
47 background processes (inc. Anti Virus & Firewall) using approx. 4% of CPU power
I have FS_Open (+Cardinal spear), INF:A and one mod i am making that's stable (problem affects them all).
fs2_open_3_6_9.exe +latest mediaVP's and patches
Flags: -spec -glow -jpgtga -2d_poof -missile_lighting -img2dds -rearm_timer -ship_choice_3d -3dwarp -warp_flash -fps
-ambient_factor 40v -no_emissive_light
The prob: If i get even close to looking at an HTL model, even with every single other flag turned off, it slows down to 2-4fps,
yet if i switch HTL off and run everything else (even adveffectsVP) i get 40-69fps, so i know its something to do with HTL. The
card can handle HTL AFAIK as it will load the model and the game still works, and AFAIK i should be able to load HTL without a prob
(i run games like Dawn of War on highest settings and its fluid even when the screen's crowded).
Any idea what this is? Is it just my card or have i set something wrong? Shall i mantis it?