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Mid General
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Posted - 2003.08.22 15:30:00 -
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I get quite poor performance on my laptop for some reason. Specs :
Intel P4 3.06Ghz HT-enabled
Radeon Mobility 9000 128Mb
1Gb PC2100 DDR
I get choppy framerates 90% of the time. Sometimes it will speed up and run slick for 5 minutes then go choppy again.
I've got the latest *everything* and tried many different radeon drivers, but I've still not got it running nicely.
Is there some option somewhere I'm missing that can sort this out?
Cheers
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Scarlet Dresari
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Posted - 2003.08.22 23:32:00 -
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> Intel P4 3.06Ghz HT-enabled
> Radeon Mobility 9000 128Mb
> 1Gb PC2100 DDR
Those look to be good stats. I have a laptop too, but all my stuff is lower than yours (2.2 GHz, Radeon Mobility 7500, 512 Ram). I get very occasional choppy periods of time, but only 20-30% of the time.
The first thing to do, would be to turn down many of the graphics options under the Generic and graphics menu (like resolution, orbit station, sun occluding, portrait generation, etc.).
If you run EVE under a window, that could be a main cause of choppiness. Also, many background programs can slow EVE, so try to close all except the essentials like anti-virus. If that is the case, try to run it in fullscreen.
When it comes down to it, Eve has many problems with ATI graphics drivers. Your computer is definately powerful speed, graphics, and ram wise, so I can only guess it has to do with the ATI drivers. The knowledgebase has an article on referring ATI users to downgrade their catalyst (driver versions).
Hopefully one or more of these solutions work.
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Mid General
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Posted - 2003.08.23 09:40:00 -
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Problem is that I've only just got hold of a driver that runs eve stable (7.89), I've tried a lot of drivers in the past and performance has always been under par.
Runs beautifully on my ahty xp1800 with gf4 ti4400...shame it won't run as nice on the laptop.
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Scarlet Dresari
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Posted - 2003.08.24 05:13:00 -
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Choppiness could also be affected by RAM. I remember in one of the posts that someone turned their RAM down to 512mb and EVE ran more smoothly than before. Of course, this solution seems pretty extreme and I know it does not work for some other people.
Another thing to do that is standard tech support feedback since your laptop is more than good enough to play EVE well would be:
1) Do an anti-virus check. The recent amount of email viruses makes this a good idea anyways and the knowledgebase suggests many EVE player's problems are caused by viruses.
2) Do a disk cleanup, checkdisk, and defreg on your comp. These can be accessed by right clicking your C: Drive icon and running the programs. These couple of thing in themselves are good to do monthly on your comp and tend to increase performance and diskspace slightly which are important for all laptop users. These processes take a long time and defrag probably should be left on when you sleep.
Before I had many problems with EVE and I ran all the above just in case. After them I still had problems, but then I isolated them down to software/hardware problems.
Hope that helps, but either way your computer benefits from running the above.
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Gun Kata
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Posted - 2003.08.24 11:08:00 -
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Edited by: Gun Kata on 24/08/2003 11:09:05
You may find this page
http://www.3dchipset.com/laptop/ati/nt5/index.php
helps you out. Read about the mods and get the Catalyst drivers on your laptop
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Mid General
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Posted - 2003.08.27 19:37:00 -
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Got the latest catalyst drivers on now. Still stable but performance is ropey still.
Performance in other games is fine, just Eve =/
BTW I've been looking for something like those catalyst mods for ages...a godsend for radeon mobility users :)
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Commander Bishop
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Posted - 2003.08.28 15:06:00 -
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Edited by: Commander Bishop on 28/08/2003 15:06:53
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Scragg
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Posted - 2003.08.28 15:20:00 -
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Edited by: Scragg on 28/08/2003 15:21:35
Laptop hard drives are significantly slower than desktop drives. I'm betting the choppyness is caused when the machine is accessing the game cache on your hard drive.
You might be able to help the situaiton some by doing a good defrag.
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Lord Cochrane
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Posted - 2003.08.28 15:33:00 -
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I'm running EVE on a
8200 Inspiron
1g ram
P4 1.6
Nvida 2 go 32mb
I have no probs at all, I run EVE windowed, with Excel running as well and probably one or two other apps, IE being the main one (to listen to England losing (again!) at cricket - so depressing)
I'm digressing, I do clean up everything, I have no IE history and only a 20mb cache for IE, I'll defrag once a week or more.
I am also running NAV and NPF - I have noticed 'choppyness' before on other peoples computers either with a game or in a business sense.. my suspision goes with either the following ; as if it is choppy it'll be client based, server based would imply nothing then loads, the nothing then loads etc..,
Mass mailing worms
P2P software
ISP problems
Possibly Graphics - do you have any probs with other games????
What ISP do you use and do you have AV or PIF software installed?
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Mid General
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Posted - 2003.08.28 15:49:00 -
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I run a clean system, I regularly check running processes to make sure.
Performance in all other games is fine.
I've got 1Gb ram, and eve very rarely hits the hard-drive during gameplay.
Tis just plaing choppy, and it really shouldn't be =/
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Jehova
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Posted - 2003.08.28 15:58:00 -
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KIAMid, run a dxdiag.exe and look at the result for any problems. If you play in windowed mode, take a look at the task manager and look at your exe.exe process.
For me, on an old Athlon 1.3 GHz, exe.exe takes 60-70% cpu and has about 180Mb RAM allocated after a while playing.
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