New Video Card for UT

[sim]

Yo, Right now I have an agp 32mb radeon VE. When I play UT over my lan about 10 seconds out of every minute everything stops or goes very slow but the music, and everyone else on the lan continues. after about 10 sec's it goes back to normal. I'm guessing the radeon just cant pump out the frame rate to play UT good, but single seems fine. So the qustion is which video should I buy to play UT without this annoying problem. My budget is about $100 with out shipping. Two cards I am considering are the VooDoo5 5500 and the GeForce2 Ultra. Also if anyone knows some radeon tweaks if there are any to increase preformance Please let me know. Thank You in advance.

[hooziewhatsit]

what kind of NIC do you have? I was having a problem similar to that, except it would only freeze for a couple seconds at a time. You might try a different nic, or try moving it around to a different pci slot.
I finally tried an older ISA nic, and the problem went away.

hope this helps

[sim]

I have an asound 10/100M Ethernet pci adapter

[funnyperson1]

that raden should be fine for unreal, even my rage fury pro can pump out 50-60 fps at 800x600 (everything else maxed out)

[sim]

Yo,
I put in a different NIC and moved it to a different pci slot. I also changed my 3d to the thing besides software rendering. It improved a lot, but it still goes kinda slow about 10 seconds out of every 2.5 minutes. again any readeon tweaks would be appreciated.

[FerrariF50]

Ut really runs with the Cpu..... The bigger Cpu the better frame rates....

[Da Whip]

yo? What the #$%@ is that? Lets try basic english. You (I presume that means yo) did not give any information as to what your system has in it. It would help to know CPU, MOBO, RAM and the like, this lets people make a somewhat educated guess as to a remedy for "yo" problem.
P.S. Why are you running UT in the software rendering mode in the 1st place?

[FerrariF50]

lol

[sim]

Yo means Hi smart @$$
and with a name like Da Whip how can you critisize MY language. You are supposed to be a senior member helping people, NOT making fun of them.

For anyone else my system spec's are:

Abit KT7-A
Duron 800mhz (not o.c.'d yet)
256mb generic pc-133 ram
Afreey 10x DVD
Maxtor 10.2gb 5400rpm HD

And I had it on software rendering to try and correct the problem.

SiM

[funnyperson1]

yo yo yo, aint no flamin sposed to be goin on round here dawg....sheeeeet....lay back....:D

[Blue Jester_2112]

I'm sure you didn't mean it to, but that did come across as kinda harsh Whip.

That system should be fine for UT. I don't think it's your vid card, if it couldn't handle the game it would get choppy, not freeze like that. What drivers are you using?

[Mord-Sith]

the GeForce2 Ultra is way more than a 100 bucks more like 200. I realy think you have a problem somewhere else. I can play ut at 1024x780 with everything maxed on my geforce 1 256 ddr on a celeron an I dont have any problems.

[sim]

I'm just using the drivers that came with the card. oh yae and sometimes it totally stoped and sometimes it was choppy, but now its mostly better.

[Blue Jester_2112]

Try downloading the latest drivers and see what that does. When does it tend to freeze? randomly, rythmically or in the midst of alot of action?

[funnyperson1]

try to get the newest drivers for your video card, and your motherboard.....that might help

[6502kid]

If your network card has the option to force 10 full as the
speed in the properties for the card in the network
neighborhood, you might try that.

I was having a bunch of problems trying to run a cheapo
Realtek 10/100 net card at 100.

We were using an x-over cable so no hub was involved.

Kept getting slow downs like you describe, and some other
erratic problems with gaming and windows networking.

Turned the card down to 10 full as the link speed duplex
setting, and everything stablized right away......

[Da Whip]

sim, How about a little humor, I was just poking fun. But on the other hand, yo is very sophmoric, makes you sound less intelligent than you actually are. I was just ribbing you. As far a Da Whip goes, that is what they call me at work, maybe because I crack the whip occasionally. Lighten up a little.

[sim]

Da Whip, Im sorry if my post sounded harsh, but your post looked to me alot like an attack.

Ferrari, would you recommend that instead of using that $100 on a new vid card I get the 1.4 ghz 266fsb athlon?

[Pinky]

Originally posted by sim
Da Whip, Im sorry if my post sounded harsh, but your post looked to me alot like an attack.

Ferrari, would you recommend that instead of using that $100 on a new vid card I get the 1.4 ghz 266fsb athlon?

Tough choice, but I'd say go with the Athlon.

[Pinky]

Originally posted by Da Whip
sim, How about a little humor, I was just poking fun. But on the other hand, yo is very sophmoric, makes you sound less intelligent than you actually are. I was just ribbing you. As far a Da Whip goes, that is what they call me at work, maybe because I crack the whip occasionally. Lighten up a little.

That's called CYA -- covering your a$$. You obviously flamed the guy. Wait, I should say that in my humble opinion you were blatantly impolite and harsh.

Kiss and make up now... :D

[SickBoy]

Sounds like a NIC problem to me. A Radeon VE should do fine in UT..... but those cheap NIC's suck CPU cycles. Get a good hardware NIC rather than mess with your card (or worse yet actually spend money on a new video card or processor). A good 3Com NIC should eliminate this problem. Make sure to wipe out all traces of old drivers from your system registry.

SickBoy

[Newbie_Doo]

Sounds like everyone has already kissed and made up, so let's all play nice now. :)

sim, before you go and spend more money, check the IRQ table in your manual to make sure that your nic and vid card don't share an interrupt. If they do, change the slot of the nic first and see if it helps, or force the interrupt manually with something that does not work concurrently (like the modem or something).

You could also try and increase the RAM (which is cheap right now) because the delays may be related to the game accessing the hard drive for more info rather than pulling from ram. A 5400rpm HD will definitely slow things down.

Hope this helps.

Anthony

[Nagorak]

UT is all about CPU. In fact the game runs about the same speed on the original Geforce as it does on a Geforce 3. I doubt your graphics card is the problem, but either way you'll get much higher FPS by getting a faster CPU instead of a faster graphics card.

[two_dope2000]

it duz sound more like a NIC problem but if you do think about upgrading on a budget try the inexpensive MX boards, personally i like Hercules. ;)