Fallout: New Vegas is choppy as hell
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If he's still running the server/workstation mobo then it mostly likely uses FB-DIMM memory. Expensive shit, that.s0m3th1ng said:
Which, come to think of it all, he could probably flog off all the workstation parts and get enough cash for them to buy a fuck off monster gaming rig. Workstation parts are no' cheap.
Reading through what the OP has posted, more than likely it's a mix of slow HDD reads as the game loads and the fact that the system's installed memory (including what's installed on the vid card) is not being used correctly or efficiently. I honestly suggest upgrading to at least Win7 Pro to Ultimate and make sure that the drives are not in dire need of being defragmented or are dying some sort of slow death.
But man, what I'd give to have a powerful workstation like that. -.-;
But man, what I'd give to have a powerful workstation like that. -.-;
Not if, as the OP implied, it *ahem* 'followed him home from work'.heavymedicombo said:
Stealing shit makes for good bargins.
'The masses' wouldn't really know what to do with workstation parts except for make a godawful mess of them. What he'd really need is a digital artist of some stripe with a bit of excess scratch looking to have themselves a home workstation.Firia said:This is the best idea.Pawn your parts off onto the masses for bank, and turn that bank around into a mutha gaming PC.
Judging by this post, it seems it's more of a Gamebryo problem than your rig. Defrag those hard drives, and upgrading to Windows 7 Pro to unlock your RAM would probably be wise.Belgian_Waffles said:
i do not..what is this from?captaincabbage said:Y'know too much RAM can lead to emergencies. RAM emergencies.gmaverick019 said:
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lol nvm then. Someone will get it eventually. In the mean time check out a show called The I.T Crowd, it's pretty good. It really picks up in the third and forth seasons.gmaverick019 said:i do not..what is this from?captaincabbage said:Y'know too much RAM can lead to emergencies. RAM emergencies.gmaverick019 said:
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The ignorance of the masses really isn't his problem, now is it?RhombusHatesYou said:'The masses' wouldn't really know what to do with workstation parts except for make a godawful mess of them. What he'd really need is a digital artist of some stripe with a bit of excess scratch looking to have themselves a home workstation.Firia said:This is the best idea.
Advertise them for what they are. If they don't know what it means, but buy it anyway, that's their problem. Meanwhile those parts have already garnered their value, and a gaming PC could be purchased. 
The specs you quote should be able to run the game fluidly, but maybe not at highest settings... what resolution are you running it at? What setting? Is your drive defragmented (yes, outdoor terrain is paged into memory from disk and a fragmented drive will hurt).
I have a slightly better GPU than you (of nVidia type) and can run 1920x1080 at Extreme settings, but not without hiccups. Dropping the resolution or changing a step down from Extreme helps.
Incidentally, CryEngine is a much newer engine than Gamebryo and in practice consumes less memory, leaks less, fragments memory less (something Gamebryo is notorious for, especially with games that drop and load a lot of resources), and performs better, mostly due to needing much less legacy code. OTOH, Gamebryo has a lot more features and includes a lot more third party utilities (like Havok physics and SpeedTree). At the time Bethesda chose it (almost a decade ago - circa 2002), it was probably the best choice for an RPG, but I don't think the engine itself has ever had a full redesign and has always evolved (it started as NetImmerse).
I have a slightly better GPU than you (of nVidia type) and can run 1920x1080 at Extreme settings, but not without hiccups. Dropping the resolution or changing a step down from Extreme helps.
Incidentally, CryEngine is a much newer engine than Gamebryo and in practice consumes less memory, leaks less, fragments memory less (something Gamebryo is notorious for, especially with games that drop and load a lot of resources), and performs better, mostly due to needing much less legacy code. OTOH, Gamebryo has a lot more features and includes a lot more third party utilities (like Havok physics and SpeedTree). At the time Bethesda chose it (almost a decade ago - circa 2002), it was probably the best choice for an RPG, but I don't think the engine itself has ever had a full redesign and has always evolved (it started as NetImmerse).
I pretty much thought that it was a given to go up to a 64-bit OS in the first place. It's part of the issue in the first place. That, and most of the code behind the recent Bethesda titles is garbage that rarely gets patched.poiumty said:
Dont know if anyone has said this, but to the OP: Your hard drive speed is important when running the Fallout games, because of the way the engine is continually loading game world data. It doesnt matter if you have amazing CPU and GPU - if the drives cant load data quick enough, you will get chop. If you look through this guide http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html somewhere there is advice on it, I think they call it stuttering.
Open world games that do not stop repeatedly for loading screens tend to suffer from this because you are constantly wandering around an endlessly updating map. In games that stop to load, you tend to get the whole map in one hit. That said, the STALKER games stpo to load AND also constantly update objects, so the problem is there too. Some games just suffer from it and theres nothing you can do, so bar getting that super fast hard drive, you may have to put up with it and just hope you dont get slow down in the middle of a key fight.
Ah here we go, info is on this page: http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_3.html . Some potential fixes there.
Open world games that do not stop repeatedly for loading screens tend to suffer from this because you are constantly wandering around an endlessly updating map. In games that stop to load, you tend to get the whole map in one hit. That said, the STALKER games stpo to load AND also constantly update objects, so the problem is there too. Some games just suffer from it and theres nothing you can do, so bar getting that super fast hard drive, you may have to put up with it and just hope you dont get slow down in the middle of a key fight.
Ah here we go, info is on this page: http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_3.html . Some potential fixes there.
