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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Scooby_Doo on January 05, 2008, 03:32:57 pm

Title: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 05, 2008, 03:32:57 pm: Just got a new 8800 GT OC, but when I try to load either fs2 or fred it takes all eternity to load. The process just sits there eating up 50% of the cpu. After nearly a minute or so it finally switches video modes and starts running. Whats going on?
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: haloboy100 on January 05, 2008, 03:34:47 pm: I got an 8800 GTS and i don't get any of that..but maybe it's because i got GTS and not GT?
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: castor on January 05, 2008, 03:38:26 pm: Which vid card did you have before? Did you uninstall its drivers properly?
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Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 05, 2008, 04:34:34 pm: Yup, i used Driver cleaner pro to nuke all the old ati drivers. I don't think it affects DirectX games, as Sims2 runs perfectly, and gorgeous too :eek2:
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: CP5670 on January 05, 2008, 04:51:03 pm: Try disabling the nvsvc service in the background. As far as I can tell, it serves no purpose and just uses up memory. I ran into that exact issue a year ago with this and some other games, and this solved it.
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 05, 2008, 04:56:42 pm: Sorry, made no difference.

Edit: think I found the cause, for some dumb reason i've got 0 length VP files. Dunno why something was turning some of my vp files into empty files. :wtf:
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Post by: Zacam on January 05, 2008, 07:31:24 pm: Heh. Funny that, neh?

A GT has no problems with much of anything, which is why I took the chance to get 2 of them.
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 05, 2008, 09:14:57 pm: Luckily I had already uploaded the vp's to the ftp, otherwise i'd be rather annoyed. LOL
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Post by: colecampbell666 on January 06, 2008, 03:23:20 pm: Apparently you would have been better off getting two 3870s than two GTs. And you'd be helping the Canadian economy.
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 06, 2008, 04:16:45 pm: Quote from: colecampbell666 on January 06, 2008, 03:23:20 pm
Apparently you would have been better off getting two 3870s than two GTs. And you'd be helping the Canadian economy.

Well considering AMD is an US company :P
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: colecampbell666 on January 06, 2008, 05:10:22 pm: I thought that you were from Europe like the rest of the WCS team!
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Post by: Scooby_Doo on January 06, 2008, 05:34:21 pm: Nope, me american.... :)
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Post by: colecampbell666 on January 06, 2008, 05:43:44 pm: You talk like one. :p
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Post by: Zacam on January 06, 2008, 06:25:07 pm: 3870's would passably manage to give an original GTS a run for it's money, there is no way it's going to touch a GT.

And considering that the GT and 3870 are roughly the same price, I'm still happy to have gotten my GT's.
Title: Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Post by: colecampbell666 on January 06, 2008, 06:43:30 pm: http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/03/the_best_gaming_graphics/page4.html CrossFire is apparently eons ahead of SLI.