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| 427632 | 2006-02-06 08:08:00 | I got Need for Speed Most Wanted right. I play it on my machine which is a XP2600, 1GB DDR400 RAM and a 6600GT. Lately the game has been running like an absolute dog. I've checked everything, all my temps are low, CPU usage is normal, RAM usage is great, graphics card is up to the duty. I turned the graphics to the lowest setting and it still does it. It was running fine, with just the odd glitch here and there, or maybe a whole glitch session at the start of a race (in particular tollbooth races). The kind of glitch that occurs is like a stutter, the game stops, goes, stops, goes, continues - the kind you might get at full CPU usage or full RAM usage. It's gotten so bad now there is no hope of winning races. The only thing that has changed is that I have started running other programs on this installation of Win2k. I used to run just the games, but now I installed AV, Firewall, modem and firefox. I don't know why the f*** its doing this, unless its junk files left somewhere but its really pissing me off. Google doesn't seem to know anything about it, it just says "doesn't run jerky at all on a 6600GT" when i searched for the nouns in the sentence. I know of 1 other person experiencing these problems, but surely there are others? Anyone know what could be doing it? Thanks. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 427633 | 2006-02-06 10:20:00 | Why don't you try the NFSMW support. Go start/all programs/EA Games/NFSMW/Technical Support. I have the game runs fine on my system except for a few gliches at the beginning. P4 2.53 1gb 2100 DDR ram, Geforce FX 6800LE 128mb Graphics. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 427634 | 2006-02-06 19:16:00 | I have played a few games, that even when getting 50-80 fps are still jerky. I found turning vsync on made it run smoothly. Heard some people saying vysnc off helps too. So, try turning vsync on/off. It just might work. | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 427635 | 2006-02-06 19:46:00 | I'm running NFS:MW on AMD 2800+, 1GB DD$ 400, Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB, and also get glitches. Last night, the shadows went funny, and were replaced with huge, single colour polygons, like giant sheets over parts of the landscape. I went into settings and turned off shadows, and they went away, but I still have no idea why this happened. After I quit to Windows, the Start menu was graphically corrupted. I suspect a heat problem with the graphics card (GeCube) but have no idea how to test/fix it, as there are no heat sensors on the GFX card. You are certainly not alone with graphics glitches in NFS:MW. The VSync options is interesting, will try tonight. | Lizard (2409) | ||
| 427636 | 2006-02-06 22:23:00 | To see if it is a graphics O/H problem take side of case and have a household fan blowing air into case. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 427637 | 2006-02-06 22:56:00 | I have tried turning vsync on/off. I know its not graphics overheating as my card sits at like 60-70° usually plus i put a fan on the top heatsink of the card so its cooling the top of the gpu and the pcb side of it. But yeah, looks like the only thing that could fix it is a fresh doze install... |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 427638 | 2006-02-06 23:03:00 | look here (www.hardforum.com) It sounds like a game/driver issue to me. Maybe nvidia will fix it in their next driver or EA will bring out a patch... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 427639 | 2006-02-06 23:26:00 | Its a craply coded game, being run on an outdated OS, and an out dated motherboard/cpu combination. The year is 2006, So it must be the fault of Telecom. Set your swap file upto something huge, try 1.5GB...and make the minimum and laximum the exaxt same figure., Get rid off the bloatware in the background, Shutdown your AV for gameplay, defrag your HD. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 427640 | 2006-02-06 23:33:00 | mejobloggs wants nfs4 and 5 updated :) Don't really like these new nfs's | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 427641 | 2006-02-06 23:36:00 | If you are running Zone ALarm Pro turn it off as that can cause games to become unstable. Trevor :) |
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