Graphics problems in F.E.A.R.

[Ian M. Walker]

Late last night I got my new video card working. It's an nVidia 6200 with
512 mb DDR. A good card for a board that doesn't have PCIe.

I have 1gb of system RAM.

I determined that I had to lower the setting of my AGP in the BIOS from the
maximum of 256 to 128 (which was odd since my old card was 128 and it had
always been set to 256 without me even noticing).

Anyway it worked and I was able to switch on the lovely Aero and it has been
smooth and impressive.

Then I installed Oblivion and F.E.A.R. to see my new stunning graphics. heh.

Oblivion finally ran without having to use the OldBlivion tool and
replacement textures but it didn't look that great and the auto-detect
wanted to set my graphics to low! Sheesh.

Then I ran F.E.A.R. The auto-detect set my settings to custom and the test
video ran smoothly but when I actually got into the game I found that it
would freeze for a few moments every couple of seconds and then would get me
stuck in a movement direction. I tried lowering the graphics just a little
to no avail.

I do have the new nVidia beta driver installed and I'm at a loss. It didn't
even make a difference if I switched off Aero. Surely a card like this
should be able to handle such a game and also Oblivion didn't have the
freezing so I just don't know.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks.


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Ian M. Walker

http://www.IanMWalker.com

~ Look to your own life before worrying how others are living theirs ~

 

[Andrew]

Late last night I got my new video card working. It's an nVidia 6200 with
512 mb DDR. A good card for a board that doesn't have PCIe.

Where do you get the impression it is a good card from? It is a very
average card that you are trying to play very much above average games
on. A 6600GT or a 6800GS make for much better gaming.

 

[Ian M. Walker]

Compared to my Geforce 4 ti 4200 (which was good in it's day of course) it
IS a good card and since I needed an AGP card as I'm not prepared to replace
my whole motherboard yet.......

It still should definitely be performing better than it did under XP on my
Geforce 4.

Thanks for the, err, help though.


--
Ian M. Walker

http://www.IanMWalker.com

~ Look to your own life before worrying how others are living theirs ~

 

[Andrew]

Compared to my Geforce 4 ti 4200 (which was good in it's day of course) it
IS a good card and since I needed an AGP card as I'm not prepared to replace
my whole motherboard yet.......

It might be better than a GF4, but it is still very low end for Fear
and Oblivion, even without the performance handicap of running the
games under an obviously buggy beta OS with beta drivers. There are
much better AGP cards available, as I stated before.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-8902_7-6213103-2.html

 

[Guest]

Are your settings lowered all the way? Make sure that the settings that are
CPU-heavy aren't raised up, unless of course your processor can handle it(you
didn't mention that part). If they aren't already, make sure all your
settings are on low, 800 x 600 res., and go up from there.

A 6200 should be more than enough to run the game - though certainly not on
max settings. The 512 of RAM is helpful, but that's not the part that really
lets you crank up the graphics. I ran FEAR on an ATI 64mb AIW 9000 Pro with
no problem(graphics mostly on low with a couple cranked up to max). That card
was the bare minimum needed to run the game. A 6200 is at least on par with
the 9000 Pro, if not better - especially considering FEAR is optimized for
nvidia cards.

 

[Ian M. Walker]

Thanks, Adam.

I had used the auto-detect for the settings assuming the program would know
what it could handle (and the test video was fine) but I'll give that a try.

I suppose Andrew was right about the card not being that great. I just
thought it would at least give me better performance than my old card.

Cheers.


--
Ian M. Walker

http://www.IanMWalker.com

~ Look to your own life before worrying how others are living theirs ~

 

[Conor]

I do have the new nVidia beta driver installed and I'm at a loss. It didn't
even make a difference if I switched off Aero. Surely a card like this
should be able to handle such a game and also Oblivion didn't have the
freezing so I just don't know.

You're at a loss because you are yet another ****ing clueless moron who
doesn't understand what BETA Software is.

 

[Conor]

Compared to my Geforce 4 ti 4200 (which was good in it's day of course) it
IS a good card and since I needed an AGP card as I'm not prepared to replace
my whole motherboard yet.......

It still should definitely be performing better than it did under XP on my
Geforce 4.

Why the **** should it? It is a test version of an OS using a
completely new driver architecture where the drivers themselves are
test versions and neither the OS or drivers are anywhere near
optimised.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Adam.

I had used the auto-detect for the settings assuming the program would know
what it could handle (and the test video was fine) but I'll give that a try.

I suppose Andrew was right about the card not being that great. I just
thought it would at least give me better performance than my old card.

Cheers.


--
Ian M. Walker

http://www.IanMWalker.com

~ Look to your own life before worrying how others are living theirs ~

Have you tried using Taskman and ending any unecessary processes? Certainly
helped me out!

I think Vista is running a lot of extra processes because:

1) I'ts BETA!

2) Because it's BETA, it needs these extra processes to help with program
and application compatibillity testing.

3) Vista-BETA would obviously have all the extra 'bells + whistles' turned
on, to see how these work/run of course.

4) Any new features not yet seen in any other version of Windows, would also
be on for various reasons/purposes.

Hope this helps, it certainly did for me and I thought I had a relatively
capable system for running hardware/cpu/graphics - intensive games!

Mobo: ASUS P5GDC-Deluxe (LGA775, Intel 915P+ICH6R, CPU Lock Free, FSB-800
Overclocked)
CPU: 3.0GHz Intel P4 630 (O/C'd to 3.6GHZ - No conflict with Vista either!)
System RAM: Dual Channel - 1GB DDR2 PC4200(533MHz) Generic
Video: Expert-Vision GeForce 6600LE (512meg)
Sound: Onboard CMI 9880 (Vista has issues with running onboard CMI chips but
I have it running nonetheless!)

Cheers,

Lee-roy (Australia)