maybe video problem?

**donnybrasco** · 10-01-2004, 07:41

well i switched the soundcard and my wireless adapter no change.... it seems like its really bad in the mini battle you have to do in the begining once your on the campaign it is really horrible only sometimes.....

you think it is just the 9700? maybe i need a new video card

onboard sound is disabled....

seems like im always doing this with my computer

until i get more money.... heh

you think if it would be all choppy like that in RTW it will be the same way with MTW?

im stuck i know nothing else to do to make the performance better. i just think its the video card...i need a better one, unless you know 9700 pro should be able to run RTW fine i dunno

**dlundie** · 10-01-2004, 10:28

Athlon 1700xp
KT 133A Via Motherboard
Geforce FX 5200 128MB
512mb PC133
Soundblaster live 5.1 de
Windows XP Home

Thats what i have.. and as you can see im due for a new PC soon. Your PC should be fine as its much more powerful than mine. What i suggest is this and its the big hammer approach.

get out you motherboard manual and check your settings in you BIOS, i did it and got a 25% increase on my PC because eveything was at default and not optomised.

Do a clean Windows install and add all the latest drivers and updates for windows and for you cards.

Just put on Rome

Set it on low and slowly work your way up.

If this fails then something is really wrong, like i said you have a very decent PC and your video card is fine for Rome, if you dont want your video card i will sure buy it off you.

**dlundie** · 10-01-2004, 10:30

And yes, Rome works on my PC fine.

**Stuie** · 10-01-2004, 13:42

@donnybrasco: Have you tried running dxdiag to see if DirectX identifies any problems?

Just go Start > Run, type in "dxdiag" and click "OK".

**SirGrotius** · 10-01-2004, 15:15

from the specs you listed, your computer should run rome like an ethiopian runs a marathon.

the dxdiag seems the way to go. i was experiencing choppiness, particularly during the main menu screen, and other assorted unpleasantries, w/ a much lower-end system than your own, and here's what i'd recommend, have a huge crash, something which will give you an error report. it happened to me, i sent the error report to microsoft and the next day i got an update which fixed all my problems. rome is worth the effort.

**donnybrasco** · 10-02-2004, 04:05

thnx for all your help guys! i appreciate the reply's. i did get the game running smooth and i tweaked my settings in my bios and i have a few other questions though.... ok i changed these settings to make the game run better:

went to agp P2P bridge control,
aperture size i changed from 64mb to 128mb because my video card(9700) has 128. it goes up to 256 but i dont know if i should go that high

*Select the size of accelerated graphics port(agp) aperture. the aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space. host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation.*

i dont know what this means so if someone can explain this to me and maybe tell me what PCI memory is? and if it would be ok to go up to 256mbs

then i enabled all these which were disabled:

AGP fast write
master 1ws write
master 1ws read
DBI output for AGP Trans.

i dont know what all these are but they improved my video cards performance.

in my bios there is a Dram Clock setting. the max is 200mhz, which is what its set at now. does this have anything to do with the bus speed of the memory... i have pc 3200 or 400mhz bus speed. so im confused on this.

also could i change the voltage of the CPU vcore, AGP, or DDR?
would that make the comp run faster. i think i have to leave the DDR and AGP voltage the same.

so for anyone having the same problem as me check out those things above i'm not exactly sure what they all mean but it helped out the performance tremendiously. went from chooppy and unplayable to everything on highest smooth as heck...