Cowboy,

Do you have the most updated DX9 files?

What I do is click the start menu and then click RUN. A small box will open. Type in msconfig and enter. A page will pop up that will show all you computers innards on it. The last tab is system start up page. Click on that. You will see a list of programs that are started when you turn you rig on. Run down the list and uncheck programs you really do not need running when you start your computer. Things like MSN messenger, printer programs, yahoo messenger, MS office, etc. If you do not know what one of the programs is, you can do a search in google of what the program is on the list. Once you find out, you can shut it off if it is a program you really do not need when you start the computer. Basically I have my start up programs set for antivirus and Nvidia control panel. Once you have deselected these programs for the start up, it will prompt a reboot. You will notice the your computer will reboot much faster as it is not loading these programs anymore at start up. You will notice you 40 some process will diminish quite a bit.

I have the same configuration as you have only i do have a nvidia 6800gt 256mb card.

Thanks for letting everybody see that the older systems still can run shiv with the row mods great!!!

:up:

Thanks for this post mate. These ones are much apreciated for me. Some advices can improve our game a lot.

Regards.

Maybe this topic should be fixed as sticky... :yep:

I'll second that
 

Any buried thread that resurfaces like this more than once has enduring value.:yep:

I wanted to say thanks for this post and thanks for this thead. I used all the above settings with one exception... Anisotropic filtering: 2x Antialiasing - Setting: 4x. everything else as is above, and i put it on both global and SH4 profile. it made a WORLD of difference for me.

i was getting FPS jumpies on exterior it would rapidly flux from 55-60, once i made the above changes with 4x AA it made an amazing difference in picture quality and smoothness.

Thank you!!

:up:



8800 GT > 24" wide screen

A sticky of this might be nice, yes.... being that I have refered to this thread numerous times with my new Nvidia card, I think I will sticky. Besides.....I can:smug:

Ask and ye shall receive ;)

If you made a clean reinstall of the game, maybe something of your "wrong" Control Panel settings is still causing the problem. I would try resetting the default values in the nVidia Control Panel. If doing that is a problem, I would uninstall the video driver (& use Driver Cleaner to eradicate all remnants) and make a clean reinstall of the driver (the newest 169.21 is fine). Then, with both the reinstalled game at stock settings and the video driver at default values you should be back in square one, everything working again. Then work your way up again towards more sophisticated settings in small enough steps easy to be remembered and reversed, if necessary.

Cowboy 98 wrote: hi,i got nvidia 7600 gs,i updated to the latest driver,i d/l the enhancer and put the settings suggested for sh3/4 .when i started the game,this is how it look,also im running all the reflections of the water mods.any suggestions on how to fix this?

Cowboy-- I have the exact same card and the exact same streaky clouds. I tried a few other set ups with nhancer and on the card software--- no luck yet. I am running a few basic mods--like the run silent run deep sound files...I dont think thats the problem. We're missing a video setting somewhere.......steelbill

Its caused by the Anti-Aliasing Compatibility Option on the Compatibilty tab of NHancer. "EA Startegy Games"

Did the same thing with me.

Turn it off and try again.

I'm running a 7900GTX, just for the record.

That did it. Mr Bledso, you have the con.

Glad it is sorted Steelbill! Now, with your new found knowledge, please pass it on to anyone who shows up with the same ills as you experienced :up:

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to SUBSIM :up: napdev


RDP

What Exactly Did You Do To Turn It Off,well It Shows Auto On So I Cannot Turn It Off?

If it's only showing auto and the box in the top left doesn't have a check mark in it, then it's already turned off.

One thing I've noticed about Anti-aliasing with the 8800-series cards is that the effect goes away in bad weather (e.g. rain/fog) in all other weather states it works fine. Anyone else experience this?

Transformation! Repost from an unresponsive thread.
 

The monster went into surgery tonight for the first stage of the conversion. Out came the mondo slow Athlon 64 3700+. Someone mentioned that a machine may be either processor-bound or graphics card-bound. How do you know? Well, by pure dumb luck I'm in a position to find out.

Configuration before: Motherboard, Asus A8N32-SLI DeLuxe. Processor, Athlon 64 3700+. Memory 2 gig go fast OCZ. Graphics, EVGA 7600GT. No overclocking on anything. This is no state of the art machine. It runs SH4 fine, wide freakin' open. 1152 x 864 millions of colors (that's Mac talk in case you want to pause to be impressed. I thought not:down:) . External camera, looking at the sub, 19 fps. Not too shabby and very playable. Wouldn't want to see half that though, it would be nasty!

I switched for that beautiful Opteron 175, no other changes. Outside view looking at the sub is now a solid 30/31 fps! So, was this computer graphics or processor bound? I'd say we have a solid case of choking on the processor there! What's that mean for any SLI tests I might have been able to make? I most likely would have said SLI didn't gain me much because my processor couldn't handle one graphics card, much less two!

Results: Athlon 64 3700+ to Opteron 175 = 58% improvement in frame rate with the same 7600GT graphics card.

Ouch. There goes a lot of seemingly rock hard conclusions about relative performance under SLI. Looks like a good processor might be necessary to see big improvements.

I'm going away now to tear my computer apart again and install the 7900GS. Nothing can beat what I just did..........can it?:rock:

Help, Mr Wizard! Help!
 

It's disaster time. Let's take a look at original configuration
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...191143_800.jpg
EVGA 6500GT and Athlon 64 3700+ 19 FPS. Nice and playable but we always want better so...
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...204324_062.jpg
Opteron 175 plus 7600GT 29-32 fps. Much better!!! 58% improvement with the new processor. Can't wait to see the 7900 GS strut her stuff!!!!!!!!! (is that insipid enough?)
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...222454_125.jpg
Yup, you guessed it, one frame per second increase and funky stripes everywhere. This is a disaster!:damn: Any ideas? Rubini? Help?............ check out this sky:
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...222512_171.jpg
Oh, and the water. How do you explain that? Interior views look OK. Everything else looks good: text, photos, movies, etc. I can't explain it. Any ideas?