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Splinter Cell - PC very very slow :(

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  • 11-04-2003 2:54pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone know why this is happening?

    I tried splinter cell on my PC (P4 2GHz 1GB Memory, ATI Radeon 7700 64MB, XP Home, DX9) and it will not run in anything other then 640x480 at lowest resolution. Even then really slow.

    I try the high resolution and it looks great but the frame rate is horrible. It must be 1-2fps, even the mouse moves slow. :(


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    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    updated graphics drivers.

    or DX9 causing probs with the Radeon?


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    vac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭vac


    Ive read quite a bit about ATi graphics problems while trying to run SplinterCell. Alas i can't remember much cause i was jsut flicking through forums but my advice is to give it a google.


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    Captain Trips
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Captain Trips


    What mobo chipset? Check to see if it's something to do with AGP settings (fastwrites, etc., ). I know that I have to run at 4x because KT400 chipset has crap 8x support. the 8x works on other 8x chipsets with teh 9700 Pro.


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    Firefox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭Firefox


    This is the reason i bought an Xbox. I got sick of spending a small fortune upgrading my PC (Only a year old!) to play games on it. I have given up on it now!


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    Sloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Sloth


    Yeah plus the control system on the Xbox version is great and it looks just as good as the pc version.


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    CuLT
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    Have a friend who had this problem. You just need to get the v1.1 patch. Should sort ya out ;).


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    There is/was no v1.1 patch at the time of writing this post.

    I swapped out the gfx card and put in the GeForce3 from my other machine.

    Works fine now. Really sweet game, just upset now that I beat it.


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    Sloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Sloth


    Have you gone back and tried it on hard? I was going to but then didn't when I had to play through the training mission all over again, kinda drained the willpower from me. Do you know whether or not the guards are more alert on hard etc or do you just take more damage?


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    neiko
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    I only noticed that you take more damage. I mean, a lot more...


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    #11
    Sloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Sloth


    Yeah but I mean the whole point of the bloody thing was not to get spotted at which point your health was usually sapped pretty damn quickly anyway.


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