E4400, P35, 2Gb, 8600Gt-plays UT GOTY slow!

[Fragrant Coit]

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]

Are there any patches that should be applied?

Did this game come out originally before Windows XP? If so, try changing the compatibility mode.

 

[Fragrant Coit]

Got the latest patch - it plays fine in XP on other {non C2D} machines

 

[beef_jerky4104]

No wonder it runs slow, 2Gigabits of memory... Gb = Gigabits not Gigabytes.

 

[Fragrant Coit]

Very helpful, jerk y...
2 GB of RAM.

Bump.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Which renderer are you using?

 

[Fragrant Coit]

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]

Might be RAM. One or both modules could be faulty. Could you try switching out the RAM modules with some known good RAM?

 

[Fragrant Coit]

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]

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]

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...