GW Mod fantastic but too slow :(

[hangar18]

Downloaded and played the GW mod and it makes SHIII seem almost like new game! (superb work GW!) The only problem is it takes about 15mins (quite literaly) for each mission to start and each saved game to load. Also it can be slow at times during navigation.

Does anyone have any ideas how to speed up the performance (perhaps if say I just installed the bare minimum GW option, instead of the Das Boot music, Lighting etc).

Cheers,

ps I have 3 Ghz, 516Ram, 5800 Geforce 256 M card.

[Gunner]

Bump yer Ram to 1 gig especialy if ye be runn'n XP,and if ye have some spare loot kick'n about,invest in GF 6800GT,its what I run and load times are reasonable.

[shegeek72]

Originally Posted by Gunner

Bump yer Ram to 1 gig especialy if ye be runn'n XP,and if ye have some spare loot kick'n about,invest in GF 6800GT,its what I run and load times are reasonable.

*nod* WinXP uses 128 mb of ram from the get-go. Vista will be even more of a resource hog. Though I've heard the graphic eye candy can be turned off, if necessary.
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[hangar18]

Thanks, will do.

[Gunner]

good thing fer extra mamory slots think I'd be stay'n with XP fer some time,let others be a guinea pig fer vista

[Grrbob25]

Geforce 5800??? thats better then waht I;ve got, cu I win the crappies SH3 playing card in the world award: Geforce 5200, but in a week I;m gettin a Radeon x1600!!!


(remarkabley the Geforce 5200 plays sh3 pretty well, with graphics on a medium low

[Gizzmoe]

http://www.omegadrivers.net

[_Seth_]

How does vista compares to XP? Should i install vista before running SHIV (when it comes). what do you guys suggest? Is Vista more "demanding" than XP considering RAM?:hmm:

[stabiz]

I wouldn`t go for Vista before mid 2007, maybe they have removed most of the bugs by then. (Yes, optimistic)

[STEED]

Originally Posted by stabiz

I wouldn`t go for Vista before mid 2007, maybe they have removed most of the bugs by then. (Yes, optimistic)

There still removing the XP bugs.

Just wait still they replace Vista by then all the bugs may have been removed.

[stabiz]

The Omega drivers messed me up too. Spent three hours last night roaming around to fix the havoc.

[kylania]

Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

http://www.omegadrivers.net

Wow, I just installed these and it completely f'd up my machine. At first *all* video was scrambled and stuff, missing icons. Than I rebooted and for three more reboots had no video!! The monitor wouldn't even turn on. Bah.

[_Seth_]

@ stabiz: well, its microsoft..... Yeah, think i will wait until the bugs are gone!

Xp er jo greit det, så lenge det ikke SHIV krever allverden av ressurser...


Eng: Xp is ok, as long as SHIV doesnt require extreme resources..

[bunkerratt]

kylania...did you uninsatll the current drivers before installing omegas ..also what type of vidcard are you running ?
:hmm:

[kylania]

Originally Posted by bunkerratt

kylania...did you uninsatll the current drivers before installing omegas ..also what type of vidcard are you running ?
:hmm:

I'd been running stock ATI 6.4 drivers on the ATI Radeon x850 Pro. I uninstalled my ATI Tool and ATI Control Panel per the Omega read me but not the drivers themselves, since the Omega said they would install over.

I installed ATI's 6.8 drivers and all appears well so far.