massive slow down

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karmacomposer(Posted 2003) [#1]
HELP! I just upgraded to a Athalon XP 2100 processor with 1 GB of DDR RAM - simply 300% faster than my previous computer running at 450Mhz

I have been creating a game for a while and the test world is pretty barebones.

Before I was achieving 90 FPS and things were awesome
Now I am achieving 3 FPS on the exact same program

I have been in the past and am still currently running XP Pro Everything else about the computer system is the same - I just changed the motherboard, CPU and memory. Every piece of software other than Blitz 3D is running full steam ahead and shows the massive power this new system has.

I have made no changes at all and simply wanted to show it to a client - imagine my surprise at this insane slow down!!!!!!!

What do I do to fix this??????

Any help or similar experiences would be helpful


Curtastic(Posted 2003) [#2]
isnt that the gfx card thing?
http://www.blitzbasic.com/bbs/posts.php?topic=19648


karmacomposer(Posted 2003) [#3]
The graphics card is a GeForce 3 Ti whatever - Titanium series - has not changed and has 128MB DDR memory - more than enough


Blue Steel(Posted 2003) [#4]
Yeah, but the Nvidia drivers act like Lee Bamber wrote them. You need to downgrade your drivers.

I suggest the drivers that actually shipped with XP. Anytime I have tried to use different ones, the performance has gone down hill.


Genexi2(Posted 2003) [#5]
> I suggest the drivers that actually shipped with XP.

Erm, I'd more overly suggest one of the two driver versions :

-30.82 (most stable drivers)
-41.09 (has issues on some very specific cards, but are faster drivers than 30.82)


Ice9(Posted 2003) [#6]
Same thing happend to me so I reverted to the drivers to 40.17
http://www.blitzbasic.com/bbs/posts.php?topic=20469


Rob(Posted 2003) [#7]
Hey mike! hows it going? long time no talk (bloodlocust)...

Yeah sounds like that driver problem...


Richard Betson(Posted 2003) [#8]
Arbitrage

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Anthony Flack(Posted 2003) [#9]
Or Marion to his mum.


Sir Gak(Posted 2003) [#10]
The Duke lives on only in the movies and our memories. (Hint: He's dead, Jim.)