Guest Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Everytime I shoot a machine gun the game lags up totally, but never does it in the one player. Also the level takes a while to catch up (details disappear) now at some points... I have tried re-installing VC and updating to v1.1 but it still does it. Any ideas how to sort this. It never used to do this... Link to comment
SM|rawk_it Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 maybe u were on a slow server or u had too many open programs, it happens to me once a while.. but its ok after i close some programs that opend in the backgroup but again... my pc s_u_x Link to comment
me Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Your vid card/computer probably just is having trouble with MTA... It's quite a bit more intensive than VC single player. What are your computer's specs? Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 No man it is jsut the entire pc . This is has nothing to od wiht MTA . Your video card processor or Ram memory is low Link to comment
True Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Even my PC bogs up sometimes, playing 640x480 w/2xAA8xAF (get high refresh rates... ). Its my videocard holding me back and nothing more, but still, it can be quite taxing on a system. When I stop Prime95 (have it automatically stop when playing MTA:VC), its usually a bit more responsive... so it seems MTA:VC (and perhaps even GTA:VC itself) are prone to having issues when resources are utilized.... Link to comment
Robpol86 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 No man it is jsut the entire pc . This is has nothing to od wiht MTA . Your video card processor or Ram memory is low ?!?!?!?! u just said "Read only memory memory" just like ppl that say dns server or nic card Link to comment
trx Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Hmm? I thought ROM was Read Only and RAM was Random Acces Link to comment
Robpol86 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 uhh.... lol, as u can see, i need to get more sleep Link to comment
Guest Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Its definatelly not my computer spec: AMD Athlon XP3000+ OCZ 512MB PC2700 DDR RAM nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 8xAGP 128MB Graphics Over 200GBs of Hard Drive MSI KT4 Ultra Motherboard Terratec DMX 6 Fire Soundcard I don't know why it does it. Its only just started doing it since I upgraded my soundcard to the one stated above. I used to use the onboard sound. I have downloaded the latest drivers for it and updated what I can... I'm stuck! PS RAM - Random Access Memory ROM - Read Only Memory Link to comment
Dgtadude Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 No man it is jsut the entire pc . This is has nothing to od wiht MTA . Your video card processor or Ram memory is low ?!?!?!?! u just said "Read only memory memory" just like ppl that say dns server or nic card Ummmm . I wrote RAM . Right? Then i think i mean RAM Link to comment
Kent747 Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 actually he said random access memory memory, but who's counting. Kent Link to comment
trx Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 but who's counting I am: 18972134689834 Link to comment
True Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Never heard of that soundcard... But man, putting your 3000+ through the torture of a VIA chipset! Shame! Get a Soltek N64-400 or whatever the hell that model is less than $80, no need for two sticks of RAM, quite stable, and though the audio isn't the greatest, it hardly hits the CPU and beats out whats on your current board. Link to comment
Robpol86 Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 ??!?! wth is wrong w/ via?? via pwns all, no problems ever (regarding the northbridge) Link to comment
DeLuXxX Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 Its only just started doing it since I upgraded my soundcard to the one stated above. I used to use the onboard sound. Then u got it dude ! knowin' this u can : - try to disable your onboard soundchipset if not already done - try to adjust sound options in gta:vc (try to not play with EAX or things like that) - format and reinstall windows without your soundchip but with your new soundcard and believe in God (this solution definitly not for me) - use your new sound card when doing something else / use the onboard soundchip to play mta:vc (not for me too, but fun ) Link to comment
zeRo-liMit Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 The problem is certainly with your soundcard, as DeLuXxX said. The only thing I can add is that you pull all of your other peripherals out after you disable the onboard sound, so that the Terratec has the PCI bus all to itself (aside from HDs of course). A $200 soundcard should have pretty dang good hardware audio processing, so your problem isn't the soundcard sucking, you just need to get your configuration to play nice. Link to comment
Guest Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 I've formatted my computer and downloaded MTA again... same problem. I will emable my onboard sound again as I disabled it in the BIOS and see if it plays well through that. Will let you all know in a bit! Cheers for all the help guys Link to comment
[PiG] Ponch Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 Soundz like your've got an ASIO card or something similar. The DSP on the cards proberbly doesn't like directX too much. Check the driver. Don't install the one from CD. Download a new one from their website (URL proberbly printed in the manual or on the box). 99% chance there is a driver update/fix. Read the manual does it say anything at all about DirectX? You could also try and reduce hardware acceleration for the soundcard. (Control panel/sounds and multimedia devices) I've had problems with my soundcard lagging me to the max. This is how I fixed it...(bare with me it was ages ago, so I'm doing my best to remember...) I swapped the soundcard to the first PCI slot (furthest away from videocard) updated EVERY driver and DirectX on my machine. (I like to know that any old OEM driver bugs are gone from my machine). I then reset the DMI pool in my bios. (I'm pretty sure this is all I had to do to stop the soundcard lagging my machine) Basically this is what's happening to you... You've got a $$$ soundcard. Chances are that it has a pretty good cpu/DSP on it. This CPU uses your PCI bus to send the data. LOT'S OF DATA! Basically it's overloading your PCI bus with data and the rest of your machine has to catch up. I did look at your system specs and yes this even happens to the fastest of machines. Check your soundcards manufactures website for any fixes for this lag... When you formatted and reinstalled did you install the chipset drivers for your motherboard? Most people don't do this. (tsk, tsk...) You're motherboard has to know how to efficiently talk to it's own components. It's best when You start reinstalling to take all the bits out of your machine and install them one by one wilst installing each driver as you go. Be greatfull it's not a creative audigy. Those things are bitches to get working correctly... You could also try and choose the most crap sound option in GTAVC and see if that helps... I've run out of time, if I remember anymore I'll post it for ya... Link to comment
Guest Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 I did install my motherboard drivers again when I re-did everything, so every driver on my computer has the correct settings! I downloaded the newest drivers for my soundcard and graphics card, and I have downloaded ALL of the windows xp pro updates which included new graphics card drivers and the very latest versions of directx. I also updated my BIOS not so long ago! I did a test yesterday and installed my onboard sound again... the game worked perfectly! And when I used the worst settings with my new soundcard the game worked perfectly but the sound was aweful or non-existant. This is VERY frustrating! Link to comment
DeLuXxX Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 is the terratec bugging only with mta:vc or with all 3D games ? Link to comment
trx Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 Try to disable (or lower) hardware accelleration for the soundcard, then in gta vc sound options, select the simplest playback. You should then at least hear the apropriate sounds, but they're not processed to reflect the surroundings. Hope it helps you. Link to comment
Guest Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 It only has issues with the MTAVC the normal VC game works perfectly. All other games its fine with! I will try the settings and see what I can come up with Link to comment
[KFC]KungFu Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 bummer... Ok, it's official, next to me Ponch is my favorite contributor. Yes, Im my own favorite, can you blame me /me looks at my post history Ah the KungFuGrip manifesto, how lovely Link to comment
Guest Posted November 24, 2003 Share Posted November 24, 2003 huh??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Link to comment
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