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E4400, P35, 2Gb, 8600Gt-plays UT GOTY slow!
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Fragrant Coit 10-01-2007, 05:57 PM I know it's an old game, but I love it. I've tried turning off all Stepping in the BIOS, only associating the game with 1 core, put a cap on the Framerate {150} in the .ini, but it plays at about 1/5 of the speed it should. Any ideas? Thanks mailpup 10-02-2007, 07:33 PM Are there any patches that should be applied? Did this game come out originally before Windows XP? If so, try changing the compatibility mode. Ad 10-02-2007, 07:33 PM Fragrant Coit 10-02-2007, 07:46 PM Got the latest patch - it plays fine in XP on other {non C2D} machines beef_jerky4104 10-02-2007, 08:06 PM No wonder it runs slow, 2Gigabits of memory... Gb = Gigabits not Gigabytes. Fragrant Coit 10-05-2007, 05:24 PM Very helpful, jerk y... 2 GB of RAM. Bump. Mictlantecuhtli 10-08-2007, 09:53 AM Which renderer are you using? Fragrant Coit 10-08-2007, 10:25 AM Open GL, with the UTGLR32 patch, but it does the same in D3d. It plays oK on other core 2's I've built {mostly cheapies with VIA chipsets}, it's gotta be something peculiar to the P35 I'm thinking... mailpup 10-08-2007, 03:14 PM Might be RAM. One or both modules could be faulty. Could you try switching out the RAM modules with some known good RAM? Ad 10-08-2007, 03:14 PM Fragrant Coit 10-09-2007, 06:11 PM The RAM is OK, though I did try some DDR667 and it was the same. UTk4 plays beautifully. It's like the CPU has too much grunt and is freaking the game out. Setting the affinity to 1 core only did make a marginal improvement. I know on Laptops you sometimes need to cap the Frame rate limit due to stepping, but in this instance, it made it worse - V Synch made no difference, adding - cpu speed = 2000 to the .exe didn't help.... Surely theres someone in a timewarp like me who still plays UT GOTY and has struck this? I've googled, but can't find a definitive fix - well, not one that works! Mictlantecuhtli 10-10-2007, 12:54 AM I've played it with my dual-core Opteron (~2.3 GHz) too, can't remember having that kind of problems. Maybe using /usepmtimer parameter in boot.ini would do something? I don't know if it helps with Intel CPUs. Lethogar 10-10-2007, 09:22 AM My friend and I both got matching cpus (Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 2 GB ram, single nvidia 8800 GTX, ASUS M2N32-SLI premium Visat Edition MoBo, Windows XP) and he has UT GOTY and he has had a similiar problem...his either runs too slow or way to fast like 3x faster then normal...and on my computer i am having a similiar problem with Painkiller Special Edition it runs twice as fast as it should... |
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