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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: gh0st on September 05, 2004, 12:03:55 am

Title: tech problem
Post by: gh0st on September 05, 2004, 12:03:55 am

ive looked on google as well as this forum for a solution to this, but i havent found it.

my computer (an athlon 64 3200+, a gig of pc3200 ram, a radeon 9800pro) sucks at running freespace.  i will get into missions where there arent even that many models on screen, and it will slow to a crawl. its aweful when big ships and their.. well anti fighter taser.. laser beam things are used. obviously i tried lowering quality settings; no dice. could be a sound card issue? i will check that out now, but if you have any other ideas thatd be great,

edit: i should mention how awesome it is to see a active forum for this game. its a great game, sadly overlooked by many people.

Title: tech problem
Post by: Black Wolf on September 05, 2004, 12:11:46 am

Are you using standard Freespace (If so, have you patched to version 1.2?) or Freespace Open?

Title: tech problem
Post by: gh0st on September 05, 2004, 12:32:31 am

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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Are you using standard Freespace (If so, have you patched to version 1.2?) or Freespace Open?

standard freespace, with v1.2 patch, yes. fs2 detected the wrong soundcard, i switched to directsound and everythings great. thanks though :D

Title: tech problem
Post by: Kosh on September 05, 2004, 01:00:43 am

What was it on? EAX?

Title: tech problem
Post by: gh0st on September 05, 2004, 01:09:12 am

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Originally posted by Kosh
What was it on? EAX?

no, under setup it had some turtle beach crap, my mobo has integrated sound.

Title: tech problem
Post by: karajorma on September 05, 2004, 02:40:19 am

With a setup like that you've got no excuse to not be running FS2_Open. Get yourself over the the Source Code Project Forum now :D

and :welcome:

Title: tech problem
Post by: Liberator on September 05, 2004, 02:48:18 am

Default FS2 ought to fly like nobody's business on that system though.

What version of Windows and DX are you using?  If XP, have you installed SP2?

Make sure you're running in 32 bit mode.

Title: tech problem
Post by: kasperl on September 05, 2004, 03:12:28 am

He already fixed it, wrong sound card detection.


Mind, that is more or less the system I might be getting, just a processor better, and a better graph card.

Title: tech problem
Post by: Kosh on September 05, 2004, 03:08:43 pm

I'd be happy with the system he has. One thing that I noticed on mine was whenever the sound was set for EAX, it really slows stuff down (even FS1). Even though it says right on the box of my sound card that it is supported.