Slow Graphics

[picushski]

Hi,
I am sure this has probably been talked about many times but can anyone explain why the graphics slow down and have jerky movements when I speed up the action. I have a BFG Nvidea 9800 GTX OCX and my processor is an Intel Core 2 duo 6400 2.13 Ghz. I did a performance test on my pc when the fast action happened and the CPU usage window was at 50% and the two cpu usage history windows were very different. The left window was working very hard but the right one wasn't working very much at all. The PF usage was only at 850 mb and I have 2 gb of ram. Do I need to do something to utilise my right window of my cpu? If so, how? If anyone can help I would be very grateful. Regards, Jason.

[Xavier Dragnesi]

I'm quite sure that's just what it does when you speed up the speed. Nothing unnatural. Well anyway, it happens to me as well.

[Prince_of_Macedon]

We'll try this in the Technical Help section.

[irishron]

To answer one question, the game is written for single core which explains why your core readings are different. Things that go into fast graphics: fast graphics card, up to date motherboard with with the fastest front side bus, fastest ram, fastest processor, cool case, above average harddrive, and nothing running but the game. Anything else will slow it down.

[Reloader-1]

You have a very good graphics card paired with a mediocre processor.

The slowdown occurs when you speed up again and there are a lot of units present on the screen - that happens when the processor (yours has a 2MB L2 Cache) is not processing and punching out info fast enough.

I might recommend a processor upgrade for you - RTW is heavily CPU intensive.

Take care!

[_TubbZ_]

you are probably bottlenecking your cpu like the reloader says. But then again a Core 2 Duo range is a very good processor and i don't think RTW will really cause issues with it. Tbh though if you get Frame Rates less than 25 fps then i would worry about it as no one can really tell the difference with 25 and 125 in all seriousness.

Obviously a 4 year old game won't be optimised for c2d, move on i bet it plays with capable fps, why are you concerned? I bet it will play the later games fine when they are optimised for later technology...