Why does my Geforce2 Ultra slow down while playing mechwarrior 4?

[smokin_gp]

I have a PIII 800mhz cpu, 384 mb of PC 133 ram, and a GeForce2 Ultra 64 DDR video card. When I play MechWarrior 4, the game starts fine and fast, then begin slowing down. For example, you shoot a gun, a pause of 3-4 seconds, then it fires. And if there is 4-5 mechs on screen engaged in battle, pauses all over the place. This is the only game that I have this problem with, including the expansion pack, Black Knight. I have both Baldur's gates including expansion packs, American McGee's Alice, Max Payne, Unreal Tournament GoTY, Quake 3 Arena, Half Life. No problem with any of these games. Thanks for any help.

[RainMaQer]

Welcome to the Forums... the problem might be heat... Mechwarrior is a pretty intense game... how long does it take for it to slow down?

[smokin_gp]

About 15-20 minutes unless I run into a battle with 4-5 mechs, then it starts sooner.

[RainMaQer]

Does this happen in single and multi... online? I'm assuming you mean just in general.... hmmm. Have you checked for a patch?

[smokin_gp]

It happens when I am playing by myself, I've never played it online. I haven't checked for any patches, but I will.

[o770]

Originally posted by smokin_gp
It happens when I am playing by myself, I've never played it online. I haven't checked for any patches, but I will.

check also the geforcefaq (http://www.geforcefaq.com/) for related issues for that problem.

[rogue1979]

There is a patch that addresses some of this problem. What are your video settings? I found my old Geforce Pro at 240/467 could not run 1024 x 768 x 32 bit smoothly with 4X FSAA on and a 1.4GHz thunderbird. I simply used 16-bit and it looked and ran great.