UGH UT2K3 is running slow!?!?

[MEAT BAG]

My friend that has GF3 and a amd 1.2 can run ut2k3 at 1024x768 32-bit color smoothly with up to 12 bots.
all graphics settings on at least high

I have the same mobo he has a athlon 1900 XP, 768 ddr ram, and a gf3 ti500 and i cant run it smoothly with all the same settings with 3 bots!!!

We both have win2k sp3. and i upgraded to the 30.82 dets.
directx8.1b was installed when i installed the game.

To me this makes no sense what so ever. Anyone have any ideas?

[equalizr]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MEAT BAG
[B]My friend that has GF3 and a amd 1.2 can run ut2k3 at 1024x768 32-bit color smoothly with up to 12 bots.
all graphics settings on at least high

I highly doubt you can man, unless playing at 20fps is good :)

[OC-Master]

Originally posted by equalizr
[QUOTE]Originally posted by MEAT BAG
[B]My friend that has GF3 and a amd 1.2 can run ut2k3 at 1024x768 32-bit color smoothly with up to 12 bots.
all graphics settings on at least high

I highly doubt you can man, unless playing at 20fps is good :)

What he said,

UT2003, I was able to get a 2GHz AthlonXP machine with a Radeon 9700 Pro to CRAWL (less than 10FPS in some scenes) which means that current graphics cards are still too pathetic for what the performance requirements that UT2003 needs for one to master!

I know for sure you need 256MB of video ram to master UT2003 which no card posesses except for one card I know of which I aint gonna name because it couldnt play the game that well either even thou its got that amount of memory.

When R350 and NV30 come out with 256MB of memory to play with, things will defineatly be different.


OC-Master

[funko]

well botmatch benchmark is pretty insanely demanding

but as for the actual game itself

i have a 1.2 duron and gf3 and i play at 1024 with every setting set on high and it runs around 40-50 fps... not great but its good enough for me to not complain

[Dweller]

gf3 ti200 128 ddr 1.1 duron 20 gig 7200 hd 256 133 ram

ut maxed out 1024x768 full grapics speedf at 200% and it runs that fast i cant keep up :)

[MEAT BAG]

I cant get above 30 fps and with more then one bot in my field of vision it drops to under 10 fps.

[CrashOveride]

hmmm well with my sig i can play all settings on HIGHEST and the one up from 1024X768 that has the same aspect ration.. the 1400X1024 or whatver it is wiht a barley noticable glitch somtimes... but i usually run it 1024X768 /w no problems.. with my othe vid card i have to turn most sttings down to normal a thte same res to get rid of most glitches and even then they are minor (this not the cench just normal play):D :eh?: :D hope you can read that ina hurry

EDIT: Dweller- you may have to give up your master misspeller thing in you sig to to me =P i am horrible... even with spellcheck n school

[Wraith]

WTF are you talking about....my Radeon VE runs it just fine at 640x480 at 32 bit color everything turned on, at 800x600 it gets kinda slow tho. My 9000 can get it to tun at 800 600 perfect thou, i thing what u said about 256 being needing is BS

[Anaxagoras1986]

Hope my system will work on it ok. Think it will?
Athlon XP1800+
256mb DDR PC2100
GF2 Ti 64mb (260/440 <---hope to tweak up some more)
30.0 GB 7200RPM Western Digital Hard Hrive

[JP_Singer]

Originally posted by Wraith
WTF are you talking about....my Radeon VE runs it just fine at 640x480 at 32 bit color everything turned on, at 800x600 it gets kinda slow tho. My 9000 can get it to tun at 800 600 perfect thou, i thing what u said about 256 being needing is BS

DA DA DA yes it runs great at 640x480 but at 1024x768 the game looks awesom but dont run that great with everything as high as you can get it especially if you turn Vsync on in the UT2003INI, he is correct you do need a 256mb video card to run UT2003 at top performance because of all the massive textures in the game.

[Yodums]

The game is insanely demanding towards CPU too... Would someone with the same cards in this thread do a comparison?

[Cullam3n]

I would, but I have to buy the game first. :cool: :eek:

-PC

[MospeadasDark]

It's heavily CPU limited. If no one has noticed, people with the same CPU pretty much score the same bench scores regardless of their videocard.

It isn't until high resolution/eyecandy turned up that it begins to be a video bottleneck.

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by funko
well botmatch benchmark is pretty insanely demanding

but as for the actual game itself

i have a 1.2 duron and gf3 and i play at 1024 with every setting set on high and it runs around 40-50 fps... not great but its good enough for me to not complain

exactly!!!!!

cisco kid

[equalizr]

you guys with 1.2 Tbirds and GF3 cards must be running on wireframe or something...

theres no bloody way you can play the game at 1024x768x32 with all settings on high and get 50fps! something is wrong there

[JP_Singer]

Originally posted by equalizr
you guys with 1.2 Tbirds and GF3 cards must be running on wireframe or something...

theres no bloody way you can play the game at 1024x768x32 with all settings on high and get 50fps! something is wrong there


exactly!!!!!


JP_Singer

[Cisco Kid]

guys I dunno I think some are able to get 40 fps with 1024x768 at 16 bit but 32 might be strtching it a bit, and depends what is considered all settings...

cisco kid

[mbigna]

Are you sure that you are not using anti-aliasing (of any sort) and have trilinear filtering turned off? What about your sound. Software/hardware/EAX? Those things can affect your performance as much as eye-candy.

[Dweller]

im gettin 60 - 80 fps with 36 bots tested it lastnight :)
still gotta turn the speedf down to 100 though 200 is way to fast :)

< CrashOveride i got's me a honers in missspellin :)

[Dweller]

and no im not overclocking my gf3 not till i find out what the best oc that wont kill it is

stk 175/200
oc not yet

still gotta do the benchmark though :)

[6502kid]

I just ran the benchmark, demo version, on the P3-S system
in my sig, and scored 101 flyby, 48 botmatch @ 1024x768x32

I got one of those spiffy Gainward GoldenShower Gf3 Ti200
cards which I have overclocked to 210/540.

Will run a bench for the Celly in my sig, and post in a bit.
It has a Gf2 Ti200 in it...

[6502kid]

Just ran the demo benchmark on the Celly 1.1a@1483 (135fsb)
with a Gf2 Ti200 @ 265/472. 1024x678x32

73 flyby, 40 botmatch. Not real bad, but OK especially
since that PC has a 17in monitor and I usually run everything
at 800x600 there. Got 19in on my main rig, and never
use anything over 1024x768 there or everthing looks too
small anyways. I am old I guess.

Granted, either of my rigs will destroy an AMD 1.2, but
that XP1900 with the GF3 ti500 should be able to keep up.
Especially with all that DDR. I just got fast Pc150 SDRAM.
512mb in both.

Not sure how much the benchmark scores go down between
the demo and retail versions of the game. That could be
a factor.

[MEAT BAG]

I have AA and trilinear off. sound is on hardware.

[Anaxagoras1986]

How do you know how many FPS your running? Is there a command in the console to display it?

[Anaxagoras1986]

Originally posted by 6502kid

Granted, either of my rigs will destroy an AMD 1.2, but
that XP1900 with the GF3 ti500 should be able to keep up.
Especially with all that DDR. I just got fast Pc150 SDRAM.
512mb in both.


Whats your 3D mark on the celery? I would be suprised to see if your celery could "keep up" with the XP1900 with a GF3-500. Or your P3 for that matter. :)

[Wraith]

I dont get it......on my sig machine, ut2003 runs like hell at 1024x768 32.... i dotnget it. My rig= fuxed the hell up, it runs slow even on 800x600! anyone else got a 9000 NON PRO they can compare?

[Anaxagoras1986]

Well, my system with the GF2 Ti runs it fine on 1024x768 with the quality way up. My brother has a R9K 64mb on an Athlon 1.2 (200FSB) and his has a better 3D Mark than mine so he should be able to run it fine at those resolutions.
I dont see why your system shouldnt be running it really nice. It should blow my bro and I's sys out of the water!

[Wraith]

Yah im waaaaay laged out in this game, even with no bots....i dunn owhat to blame it one tho

[Anaxagoras1986]

Maybe its a driver prob.....

[6502kid]

I'm sure you beat me in 3dmarks. Only get 7250 with the Gf3.
Dont remember what the other gets.

3dmark seems to get much better results with systems using
DDR memory, as you would expect. But real life apps. like
UT, Q3 and the UT2k3 demo, my sdram seems to do OK.

I am getting those numbers by running the benchmark.exe file
in the Ut2K3\system directory.

You can get real time numbers by hitting tab and typing STAT FPS while playing.

[Anaxagoras1986]

No Im not saying that I am going to beat you in 3D mark. I am just saying I think you should give AMD systems some credit for their performance...they are no slouches, especially for their prices. Thanks for the info on how to display the FPS.:) Isnt this game great?!

[Felix]

When I brought UT2K3 I had 256mb memory. Major swappage! It would take ages to load a map, and then when it was loaded it would still be swapping. Every second or so the hdd led would turn on, and the game would jolt. 512mb got rid of this, was a huge performance boost. On winxp pro (streamlined), total memory usage got up to 471mbs (and no doubt more at times)...this game eats memory!

So if you think your system should be running it way better, and you have 256mbs of memory, get 512 :)

More memory bandwidth isn't going to hurt either.

[Anaxagoras1986]

Felix I am running 256 and my load times are wicked short. And I havent had a single hickup/ freeze for a second in the game. Im glad I am not having any of these probs I am hering about.

[equalizr]

when in the game hit the ~ key then type:

stat fps


run the benchmark at default speed in game..none of this 150% crap eithor