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Article #710244Re: C&C 3 - Cutscene Lag, help.
From: John Cocktosen
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:43
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:43
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Sleepy wrote: > "Ceowulf" <ceo@NOSPAMii.ATALLnet> wrote in message > news:460bccd9$0$7395$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au... > >>Went and picked up C&C today, in the 30 minutes I had to play it I was >>disgruntled to see that the schnazzy FMV cutscenes seem to lag like a >>bitch. The actual visuals seem to go slower than the audio. So what ends >>up happening is that the actors are talking and moving in what is just a >>little bit like slow motion (a few milliseconds slower than full speed) >>yet the talking and sounds are going full speed ahead. >> >>The end result is lip-syncing that makes baby jesus cry, as I sit at the >>end of the cutscene in silence for about a minute watching the now eerily >>silent face of Grace Park. It seems to get worse the longer the FMV keeps >>playing, i.e. the visual component of the movie lags further and further >>behind the audio component. :( >> >>System specs are just on the recommended line, so I run it at medium >>setting quality ok. The game itself runs fine. >> >>P4 3.2 >>6800 GT Ultra >>1 gig of ram >>Using the AC97 from my motherboard for sound. >>Running DX9.0c >>With NVIDIA drivers 93.71 >>I updated all my Windows XP drivers about a week ago. >> >>Any ideas from anyone who is infinitely wiser/smarter/cooler than this >>poor putz as to why this would happen? It didn't happen in the FMV in the >>demo which is odd. >> >>Ceo- > > > the 93.71 are buggy drivers - revert to 91.47 > > I... don't... think... so... I've been using the 91.47 drivers since release with zero problems. C&C 3 and the videos play fine for me. I have a 6800 GT Ultra also. His problem is something else...
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad01!roadrunner.com!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:43:44 -0400 From: John Cocktosen <JohnCocktosen@thedoor.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Subject: Re: C&C 3 - Cutscene Lag, help. References: <460bccd9$0$7395$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> <1G4Ph.3059$%g3.587@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1G4Ph.3059$%g3.587@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000729-0, 03/30/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 43 Message-ID: <460d3e4a$0$18912$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit