Far Cry demo tweaks?

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I found the best cure was windows 2000!
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Win98 users by definition have very deep pockets and very short arms
when paying out for new software.
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Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives
 
Win98 users by definition have very deep pockets and very short arms
when paying out for new software.
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Huh? People actually PAY for Microsoft operating systems? Interesting ...
 
In your case, set the page file = your system Ram. Don't set this on C:
drive, use another. 256mb might be too little.

Apperture size is WAY too high there. I think try 64mb or 128mb max, no
higher.

Turn off Fast-Writes. They don't do any good anyways.

See if that helps. If not, consider upgrading windows to xp or 2k.
 
Wblane said:
I've got a Barton running at 2346 Mhz (202 Mhz FSB) on an NF7sv2.0 w/a 9800 Pro
and I can't run the Far Cry demo smoothly even at 1024x768 (all details maxed).
I have my AF set to 16x forced on my Cat 4.4's on 98SE. Is this what's slowing
the Far Cry demo down to a crawl? The game just has points where it lags bad
for about a second then clears up and runs fine.
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This is a memory problem, I just upgraded from 512Mb to 1Gb and **** me its
made a difference to far cry and the battlefield series of games.

Loading (game/levels) and exiting of the game are so,somuch quicker. And it
also addressed this lagging just like you mentioned (where large ammounts of
data are having to be shuffled to and from the swapfile).

So :

1. Get more ram.
2. defragment/fix/opyimise your swapfile.

Sean
 
Not everyone is a heartless, ignorant, software-price-increase-causing
pirate.. like ehm.... :)
There must be some people left in this world tough.. Have to look..
 
Not everyone is a heartless, ignorant, software-price-increase-causing
pirate.. like ehm.... :)
There must be some people left in this world tough.. Have to look..
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I've bought the following:

Most DOS versions up to 6.0
Windoze 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE

.... BUT then I purchased ME ... it was so ****ING bad, I swore I would never
purchase another Micro$oft OS again. Bill has enough of my money.

(I will say this - my copy of XP Pro is actually decent ... too bad it took
this long for M$ to make a half-ass stable OS).
 
I get my MS stuff the oem way :)
Had to RMA 3 laptops during last 1 year, all with ati cards, tough they were
not at fault. So now I proudly own 3 win xp home cd's, 2 Office xp, 1 Office
2003, encarta 2002-2004 and a lot of works suite stuff... and all with their
own cd-keys ;)
 
I get my MS stuff the oem way :)
Had to RMA 3 laptops during last 1 year, all with ati cards, tough they were
not at fault. So now I proudly own 3 win xp home cd's, 2 Office xp, 1 Office
2003, encarta 2002-2004 and a lot of works suite stuff... and all with their
own cd-keys ;)
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You actually got CD's with your machines?

/me feels faint.

When the HDD on my laptop died I lost the only win2k oem install set I
had, it was all preloaded on the HDD, so I had to "acquire" a hooky
win2k cd and install that. Of course the oem serial number on the
bottom of the laptop wouldn't work with it, so technically I'm running
1 pirated win2k and the legit version isn't being used anywhere.

D0d6y.
 
My my.. what a rip off.. you won't get any cd for the software on your
machines? That's just too sad. I guess there are some advantage to buy a
Fujitsu-Siemens machine.
They are powerful, mean, big, you get all software on -sealed- cd's AND you
can cook pizza on the underside after playing UT2003 for an hour :)

I actually have about 9 cd's total, including the usual driver-cds, 3
versions of FULL nero, Windvd and MS stuff. With the last laptop 1 got 2
DVD's instead of cd's. 1 for MS programs, other one for photoshop and ps
element.

If i sell these, i might be able to upgrade my gfx card to new radeon x800
;)
 
I... be .... mad.... that's IBM :)

Sorry pal, forgive me if I *ever* insulted you... Almost all people with
ibm's (or compaqs) i've ever met, are almost run out of patience.

One dark night in 1997, after spending several hours trying to help out my
friend, (with a minor driver issue on his ibm pc), I made an oath to myself!
I'll die and yet never ever buy an ibm or compaq machine ever again..!

Integrated soundcard, modem, gfx, ram and what not.. God help.
 
And guess what fly-by-night outfit makes my laptop...

Here's a clue.

It's a Thinkpad!
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It seems standard practice now with most manufacturers to preinstall
Windows on new PCs and supply only a repair disk not a full version of
Windows. I've been trying to sort out somebody's old HP Pavillion. It
was running a bit slow and they were told to run the disk which seems
to have some sort of self-destruct mode.

I've seen some nice PC packages in the Asda store (for our colonial
cousins, part of Wal Mart). No OS supplied (but the box says they
recommend XP) and you can get a full OEM Windows or flavour of Linux
of your choice from wherever you want. This seems a far more sensible
option.
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Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives
 
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