low fps whats holdin me back ?

[DRaZZ]

Hey guys, my system is currently:

xp 1800+ @1600mhz
512mb corsair @400mhz
Abit KD7 mobo
Rad 9800 128mb
Maxtor 40gig 7200rpm drive
i got fsb at 140mhz (280 effective)
running win xp

im currently playing star wars galaxies, and accorrding to system requirements im well over the max for the game, but im hittin 30fps tops, and in built up areas it will drop to 1fps for awhile, this is leading me to believe im lacking enough ram, so its taking awhile to load up the next area of the game, any ideas what i need to improve fps, i want 30fps atleast all the time, im using broadband too so it shouldnt be inet lag shud it ?

[DRaZZ]

forgot to mention im using 4.2 driver

[matttheniceguy]

in you specks it says your ram is at 400 DDR, ie 200 mhz, while your FSB is at 140.

To do this you would have to be running your ram and FSB asyncronusly, which is generally a bad thing. In most cases you will actually get worse performance from doing this than from running your ram at the lower speed.

Running the RAM and FSB at a 1:1 ratio might help things a little.

[DRaZZ]

so forcing the ram to run at 280mhz might give better performance than running it at 400 mhz ? maybe then i cud hit cas 1.5 rather than 2.0 ! i'll give that a whirl and let ya know what happens, thanks mate

[Sophisticated]

nobody has hit cas1.5 successfully bud sorry...

First and foremost, Star Wars Galaxies is hard on the hardware. You're going to need a decent computer and a decent graphics card if you want to play the game with any kind of fluidity. You're also going to need a good chunk of RAM. The graphics engine was designed with scalability in mind, so even on a very fast computer with a GeForce FX or an ATI Radeon graphics card, you might want to crank down a couple of options. Even with the options turned down a bit, the game is gorgeous. There is a greater degree of clothing options and character appearances than any other game, bar none. The ground brush is breathtaking, with dense grass and bushes swaying in the wind.

The largest problems come from stuttering in the cities. Even on good systems, the game seems to bog down in the city. You receive stuttering problems. On a test system that included an ATI Athlon XP 2100+ and a GeForce 3 64 meg video card, with 512 megs of RAM it was not uncommon to get stutters in excess of a second or two in worst cases. The frame rate on this system would average 20-30 fps (30 FPS appears to be the hard coded limit in SWG) on outdoor areas. In the city it would range anywhere from 1-15 fps, with around 9 FPS on average. This is with most of the graphics options being turned all the way down.

-Gamespimp.com

[PottaCoola]

that happends because new games are needing 1gig of memory now, the game doesnt need a real good system at all as my freind can run it smooth wit his xp1800 and radeon np. all he needs is more ram, a radeon 9600 will be able to run doom3 smooth but with without the ram it wont run smooth. he might want to get a new processor and ram.

[DRaZZ]

well im gettin a 2600 soon anyway, and was toying with the idea of one gig of ram, but i read somewhere that more ram can sometimes be worse with windows xp ? i heard that 512 was best and anythin more was overkill right now. thanks guys i'll try windin down the graphics some more, but i wasnt maxed out with them to start with, my ram is now runnin at the same speed as my fsb but that hasnt helped that i can see, and yeah i cudnt even post with cas 1.5 !!!!

[Steven4563]

i would get another stick of ram aswell