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Article #81745Re: Tron 2.0 - jerky behaviour
From: TomG
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:56
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:56
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almost sounds like something else is running in the background hogging cpu
cycles to me. have you disabled all of the other running software and even
AV software as a test?
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"Dom Robinson" <murphyisamuppet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.19c1dfbb54b974bc9896aa@news.cis.dfn.de...
> It's not officially out until Sept 19th so I'm not expecting everyone to
have
> played this yet, but I was wondering if anyone could answer the question
as to
> why I'm getting jerkiness once per second?
>
> I have a Cybercom 1571PC with P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440
> graphics, WinXP, and have even set the graphics elements to low detail but
> still this is happening. Is it just badly programmed in that case or is
the
> graphics card just not up to the job? It's very graphically intensive,
that's
> for sure.
>
> I previously used a PC with a similar spec, but a 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX
> graphics card, but the s-video output blew big chunks, but would that have
> been able to handle this game?
>
> TIA,
> --
>
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