Help: Athlon + G400 = unexpected scores in UT?

[Paradox]

Ok, here's my situation, in UT for CTF, i'm usually the "sniper" for my team. For the Facing Worlds map, the game turns into a slide show

Specs:
Athlon 500 @ 750 (1/2 cache)
Asus K7M bios: 129beta

Matrox G400 @ 174mhz core/warp
218mhz mem
mem settings: 3,1,3,9,3,1,fast,1,1,1,1.2,1.2,2433
PD Driver: 5.52.015

256mb pc100 ram
WD 20gig ata/66 harddrive
Diamond MX300 w/ 2048 drivers
..and more stuff.. but i don't think they are relevant.

UT settings:
1024x768
32bit color
high/high for texture detail

This is playing on "Practice" mode, so I know it's not lag on the internet.

Any Ideas?


[This message has been edited by Paradox (edited 16 March 2000).]

[HedsSpaz]

Well, as always there are a couple of things to check. First, I assume that you are running in D3D mode. A couple of good comparisons are the LavaGiant level, and if you have downloaded it the Hall of Giants level. What sort of frame rate do you get on these. What sort of frame rate do you get with a lower res and color depth? I know it doesn't look as pretty, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices. I have a G200 on a K6-2 350 @ 400, 256mb PC133 SDRAM. I run in 640x480 16bpp, medium detail, medium texture. It certainly doesn't look outstanding, but it looks good enough and it's more than playable on most maps.

The only external software solution I can recomend is to make sure you have the latest drivers from AMD. And seeing as how you have the 2 day old bios from Asus I expect that you are probably on top of that as well.

If someone has some more experience with the same combo you have maybe they can offer a better solution.

The best thing I can recomend though, as I was getting at above, is just to play around with setting and see if you can find what setting is the hindering factor.

Good Luck
HedsSpaz

[evil-kirk]

Actually, when you're dealing with a huge map where you can see the entire field from the sniper loft, this map and others can bring even an impressive system like yours to a crawl, especially if you're in practice mode with a lot of bots. Things get better when you're zoomed in as a sniper, but I have a P3-600 and a G400MAX and I still find myself lowering the resolution to 800X600X32 on those large open maps.