with that setup and still have good frame rates. I've got an FX520 and I can play with everything on Medium - the difference is huge, everything looks much, much better.
A couple of tips - firstly, go to 3D Guru and download "NVHardPage" - it's a small executable that lets you tweak (NOT overclock, these tweaks are safe) your graphics card settings for better performance. I did the "performance" tweaks, and enabled all the extra control panel settings (Coolbits, AGP, and something else). The one that made the most difference for me - after enabling Coolbits, a "More Direct3D" panel shows up in the "Performance" settings of the nVidia Control Panel - set "render frames ahead" to zero instead of the default three. That made for a huge improvement.
Finally, in the game itself, try switching to the lowest resolution (the one below 800x600, it isn't 640x480 for some reason) and then back up to 800x600. I don't know why, but this has improved frame rates for many people, myself included. Suspicions include a memory leak that gets plugged when it reloads textures for a different resolution.
Good luck, and have fun with it! :-D |
