Unreasonably poor performance

[Guest]

Hey guys,
I've got an Athlon 900 running at 1.1Ghz stable on an Asus A7V. The system has 512mb PC133 ram, with an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 32mb DDR, and a Sound Blaster Live! installed. I'm running the latest drivers on everything (including the 7115 Radeon drivers Remedy recommends), but I still can't get the system to run well at anything over 800x600x16.

Now, I've been in computers a while, and I know the Max-FX engine is brutal, but c'mon, this system should be able to at least do the game justice. Anybody have any ideas?

[Joe Siegler]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>I've got an Athlon 900 running at 1.1Ghz<hr></blockquote>

You're overclocking? Try not doing that and see if it makes a difference.

[Guest]

Done - no improvement.

Why would lowering clock speed improve performance?

[Crosma]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Joseph:
Done - no improvement.

Why would lowering clock speed improve performance?<hr></blockquote>'Cuz overclocked chips are dodgy and make mistakes, unless you've got lots of cooling of course.

[Guest]

Well...

I have a 120mm fan in front, a 120mm fan in rear, an 80mm fan blowing over the hard drive, and a ThermoSonic ThermoEngine on the chip. The CPU doesn't go over 108, with Max Running, and idles at 104.5. The board temp doesn't go a hair over 80.

[Guest]

there must be something wrong with your system man..i'm running on a amd 700 with 128 megs of ram on a voodoo 3 2000 and it runs perfectly smooth on full detail.

[Guest]

lol, no offense, but I'm only posting here because something *IS* clearly wrong. I'm just not sure what it is. It runs Quake3 at High Quality well in excess of 80fps, and Unreal Tournament is smooth as well. I'm guessing that the game just doesn't run well on non-NVidia boards. Would that be an accurate statement?

[redleader]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> 'Cuz overclocked chips are dodgy and make mistakes, unless you've got lots of cooling of course. <hr></blockquote>

Only if you doing it wrong. My A7V has been going since May without a crash. The chip? An OCed Duron. OCed chips can be unstable, but only if you don't know what you're doing.

[DrkSniper]

Joesep,

No its cause of your 3D card not fast\powerful enough to run max payne at high resolutions

I run mine at 1024x702 16bit everything at high detail runs smoooth

[Guest]

I got the same problem with my game

It runs at, about 2-1 frms a second.......

I got a TNT2, it's not the best, i know, but
it should't run THIS bad.....

It doesn't matter wich RES, or wich options I choose, it always runs the same

[aikman]

I can run Max decently with a 650MHz Athlon, 256MB RAM, and a measly Voodoo3 3000. Low details, medium variations, fogging off (using fogging crashes the system).

Joseph: Many of those who are experiencing low performance seem to have more than 256MB's RAM. Have you tried forcing AGP Aperture to 64MB's? How about reducing memory? I know, sounds silly, but give it a try.

[ 09-11-2001: Message edited by: aikman ]

[ 09-12-2001: Message edited by: aikman ]

[Joker192]

I have the exact same problem it lags super bad my system is intel p2 184mbram 533mhz ati radeon 32mb pci card and it still lags WITH THE SETTINGS ALL THE WAY DOWN. i dunno whats wrong please reply some one PLEASE. images/icons/mad.gif images/icons/mad.gif images/icons/mad.gif images/icons/mad.gif images/icons/mad.gif