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WarWagon · 01-07-2004, 04:32 PM

I recently installed Unreal 2003 and have been having a lot of problems with it. At some points it will run perfectly smooth with no problems, but at several random points it will slow down and is seemingly in slow motion. When this occurs, its not even necessarily in a graphics intensive area, i.e there could be 10 guys in a room firing everywhere and there is no slowdown, but when turning around a corner it just starts to slow.

I downloaded the newest Nvidia and DirectX 9 drivers, I've tried turning down the resolution, upping the refresh rate, turning off a lot of the acceleration, etc, to no avail. This is the only game its done it with, and the laptop should be more than capable of supporting it. Here are my specs:

Dell 5150
P4 3.06ghz
Gig of ram
Nvidia GeForce 5200 64mb
UXGA display, and Win XP Pro

Any ideas as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? I've fiddled with everything I can think of but don't consider myself very compute literate so I'm sure there's something I've overlooked. Thanks.

01-07-2004, 04:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
WarWagon Loser	UT/DirectX/Video Card problems? I recently installed Unreal 2003 and have been having a lot of problems with it. At some points it will run perfectly smooth with no problems, but at several random points it will slow down and is seemingly in slow motion. When this occurs, its not even necessarily in a graphics intensive area, i.e there could be 10 guys in a room firing everywhere and there is no slowdown, but when turning around a corner it just starts to slow. I downloaded the newest Nvidia and DirectX 9 drivers, I've tried turning down the resolution, upping the refresh rate, turning off a lot of the acceleration, etc, to no avail. This is the only game its done it with, and the laptop should be more than capable of supporting it. Here are my specs: Dell 5150 P4 3.06ghz Gig of ram Nvidia GeForce 5200 64mb UXGA display, and Win XP Pro Any ideas as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? I've fiddled with everything I can think of but don't consider myself very compute literate so I'm sure there's something I've overlooked. Thanks.