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Offline Scooby_Doo

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New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
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?
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Offline haloboy100

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #1 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?
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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #2 on: January 05, 2008, 03:38:26 pm
Which vid card did you have before? Did you uninstall its drivers properly?
 

Offline Scooby_Doo

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #3 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:
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Offline CP5670

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #4 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.
 

Offline Scooby_Doo

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #5 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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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #6 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.
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Offline Scooby_Doo

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #7 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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Offline colecampbell666

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #8 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.
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Offline Scooby_Doo

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #9 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
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Offline colecampbell666

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #10 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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Offline Scooby_Doo

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #11 on: January 06, 2008, 05:34:21 pm
Nope, me american.... :)
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Offline colecampbell666

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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #12 on: January 06, 2008, 05:43:44 pm
You talk like one. :p
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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #13 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.
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Re: New video card, freespaces takes all eternity to load.
Reply #14 on: January 06, 2008, 06:43:30 pm
Gettin' back to dodgin' lasers.
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