Greetings people.
I have a Hercules 3D Prophet RADEON 9700 PRO and Star Trek Armada II runs extremly slow when the screen is showing multiple buildings/ships. I don't mean a great number, we are talking 5 buildings and 10 ships, that is a small number.
The framerate goes as low as 1 FPS, and averages at 5 FPS. Offline. This is unaceptable. I love this game, but its unplayable.
I have tried the latest drivers (1st April 2003 when I downloaded them) from both ATI and Hercules with the same problem.
I have a new version of the VIA 4 in 1 drivers and the latest BIOS for my motherboard. The BIOS AGP settings are:
AGP Fast Write Enabled, Sideband addressing mode Enabled, and so are two other AGP settings that I cannot recall. AGP is 4x.
Also, I run the game at 1024x768 32 bits, and have tried it at the lowest possible settings that the game allows, 640x480, 16 bit, minimum other settings.
In windows I disabled all the settings, inc. anti aliasing, anisoprtic filtering, and textures and mipman on minimum. Trueform is off.
I tried V Sync both on and off, same thing.
Note: All my other games run very well, it is just Armada II that runs slow.
Jedi Knight 2, GTA 3 (with some textures missing problem, but thats another story), Return to Caslte Wofenstein, Medal of honor allied assault ALL run very well, some run well at high graphics and AA settings.
But not Armada II, so there clearly is a big problem, which does not involve my computer. Or does it?
To reporoduce it, you just run it. Don't worry, it does this every time without fail, unfortunately.
System specs, if it helps:
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.3GHz
384 MB PC133 CL3 SDRAM (3x128 MB)
Soltek 75KV+ Motherboard (with latest BIOS)
The graphics card is a Hercules 3D Prophet RADEON 9700 PRO.
Western Digital Caviar 100GB UDMA 100
Sound Blaster LIVE! Value
Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 91 Monitor (19")
HP 9110 CD-RW Drive (ancient)
SONY 40x CD-ROM Drive (crap)
No brand TV Card.
Alcatel Speed Touch PCI ADSL Modem
3COM US Robotics 56k ISA Modem (not used)
MS Internet Keyboard PRO
MS Intellimouse Explorer
Note: CPU Overclocked (stable) from 1.2GHz (13x100).
So, has anyone got this same problem? Any sugestions?
Any help is very welcome.:grinthumb
I have a Hercules 3D Prophet RADEON 9700 PRO and Star Trek Armada II runs extremly slow when the screen is showing multiple buildings/ships. I don't mean a great number, we are talking 5 buildings and 10 ships, that is a small number.
The framerate goes as low as 1 FPS, and averages at 5 FPS. Offline. This is unaceptable. I love this game, but its unplayable.
I have tried the latest drivers (1st April 2003 when I downloaded them) from both ATI and Hercules with the same problem.
I have a new version of the VIA 4 in 1 drivers and the latest BIOS for my motherboard. The BIOS AGP settings are:
AGP Fast Write Enabled, Sideband addressing mode Enabled, and so are two other AGP settings that I cannot recall. AGP is 4x.
Also, I run the game at 1024x768 32 bits, and have tried it at the lowest possible settings that the game allows, 640x480, 16 bit, minimum other settings.
In windows I disabled all the settings, inc. anti aliasing, anisoprtic filtering, and textures and mipman on minimum. Trueform is off.
I tried V Sync both on and off, same thing.
Note: All my other games run very well, it is just Armada II that runs slow.
Jedi Knight 2, GTA 3 (with some textures missing problem, but thats another story), Return to Caslte Wofenstein, Medal of honor allied assault ALL run very well, some run well at high graphics and AA settings.
But not Armada II, so there clearly is a big problem, which does not involve my computer. Or does it?
To reporoduce it, you just run it. Don't worry, it does this every time without fail, unfortunately.
System specs, if it helps:
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.3GHz
384 MB PC133 CL3 SDRAM (3x128 MB)
Soltek 75KV+ Motherboard (with latest BIOS)
The graphics card is a Hercules 3D Prophet RADEON 9700 PRO.
Western Digital Caviar 100GB UDMA 100
Sound Blaster LIVE! Value
Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 91 Monitor (19")
HP 9110 CD-RW Drive (ancient)
SONY 40x CD-ROM Drive (crap)
No brand TV Card.
Alcatel Speed Touch PCI ADSL Modem
3COM US Robotics 56k ISA Modem (not used)
MS Internet Keyboard PRO
MS Intellimouse Explorer
Note: CPU Overclocked (stable) from 1.2GHz (13x100).
So, has anyone got this same problem? Any sugestions?
Any help is very welcome.:grinthumb