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May 15, 2003, 02:04 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: May 2003
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vice city problems under 8500LE
i am having major major framerate problems running vice city, gta 3 ran fine so i'm not sure what the problem is
any tips for getting better performance on a ati radeon 8500LE? its basically unplayable. i am running cat 3.2, latest directx, i've tried setting the draw distance to max-min, frame rate limiter on-off, running different resolutions, i'm going nuts here. my system is as follows: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Retail OC'D to 1560MHZ MSI KT3 Ultra2-R VIA KT333, ATA-133 RAID, USB 2.0 512MB KingMax PC-2700 DDR333 SDRAM Sapphire ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB DDR 275 MHz (dual display) Acer 77c 17" Monitor Antec SX-635 Mark-II w/ 350W PSU Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer 5.1 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45GB Sony 52X CD-ROM LiteOn 48x12x48 CD-RW 40125S Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Edition W/SP1 |
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May 15, 2003, 02:16 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: in the hidden place
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"frame rate problems" what are your frame rates exactly? and do you have any aa or aniso on?
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May 15, 2003, 02:19 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 591
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Repost this after you tried Catalyst 3.4
Coming in a minute. |
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May 15, 2003, 02:19 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 12
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vice city problems under 8500LE
well the intro movie plays just fine, i hop in the car and it drives fine for 2 seconds then starts skipping frames like crazy, its almost like stop motion, the audio skips badly as well, every 2 minutes or so it goes turbo speed for a few seconds then goes back to skipping again
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May 15, 2003, 02:29 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 29
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have you tried difefrent audio settings/drivers. as this was what made my son's Vice city go all stop/starty
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May 15, 2003, 02:32 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: May 2003
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i'll give that a try
hmm let me give that a shot, any suggestions? it'll help pass some time waiting for the 3.4's
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May 15, 2003, 02:42 PM
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E Pluribus Unum
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,203
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My GTA hardlocks and I have an 8500LE.
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May 15, 2003, 03:24 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 12
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i give up
i'll just wait for the new drivers, hopefully they will be out soon!
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May 15, 2003, 04:56 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 12
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hmm
its even worse now, vice city says it cannot find enough video memory to load the game
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May 15, 2003, 05:09 PM
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F*&k The Police
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Boston, US
Posts: 2,103
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Did you set in your bios that your AGP Aperature size is 128MB ?
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May 15, 2003, 07:20 PM
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DriverHeaven Newbie
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 12
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yup
its set at 128, i give up, i need a new video card i guess
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May 15, 2003, 10:13 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 45
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Try using Catalyst 3.0a
It will help |
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May 15, 2003, 10:15 PM
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DriverHeaven Addict
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Elysium
Posts: 328
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Don't give up. I have an 8500LE 128mb by Hercules and I played GTA3 through all the way, after the patch and all the other tweaks. I am sure Vice City will fllow the same trend, there will be all types of workarounds to make it playable. VC runs alright for me, I have had to lower the resolution to 800x600 and still it slows way down whenever there is a lot of action. I had plenty of time to plan my moves while stealing the tank. It sucks, but I think 8500LE users should no have to worry....
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