Do I have to ....... ?

[VFC_Baxter]

I am a bit new to subsims but liked 1914 - SOF a lot so I bought SH4 at a half price sale. The graphics looked good, especially the interior shots. I have found the intro video is unplayable, slurred slomo speach, graphics break up, and the museum screen footage of the Colorado gives me 3 - 4 fps, in "normal" graphics settings and 13 fps when I set everything to low. I have an ATI dual core 3800 machine with a Radeon x700 256mb graphics card, 2gb ram and 200gb hd. I am thinking of offloading it and trying a re-install. Would that be the way to go or is there a tweak for my rig that would fix this slide show please.:hmm:

I get 20-30 fps in Battlestations Midway that appears to be a comparable sim in terms of graphics so I am a bit bewildered by this. Any helpful advice or tips would be appreciated thanks.

[-Pv-]

Your CPU is a little on the weak side. I suggest at least a 4200 to get P4 3.0 Ghz performance. Until then, turn down the game graphics settings until you get the performance you can live with.
-Pv-

[mookiemookie]

Post what graphics settings you're using in-game and on your card so that you can get better advice. :up:

Turning down the anti-alaising settings on your card, as well as the environmental effects in-game seem to make the biggest difference for me. But then again, that's me. If you give everyone your specifics to work with, I'm sure you'll get some good advice.

[Paajtor]

If you have Anisotropic Filtering set to 16x, turn it down to 4x (in your ATI control panel)...made all the difference for me.

[AkbarGulag]

ATI user here, 9800XT, yup, that old. 1280*960 with all sliders up, but all boxes unticked except 'Volumetric fog', gives a good 20-30fps... very playable. 1 gig ram, 2.8mhz cpu.

I would have thought the x700 would have punched some better results? And yes, turn off ALL Anisotropic and antaliasing. Do that in the ATI control panel.