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Old June 11th, 2005, 11:12 AM
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Default Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

*scratches head*

This one's a bit bizzare to me. I just found SF again, installed it, and promptly ran into framerates in the 5-9 FPS range, with occasional detours to both the 1 FPS and 12-15 FPS range.

This is weird since I have a 2.3 GHz running XP Pro with 1024 MBs of RAM and a GeForce4 MX4000 with 128 MBs of RAM on the card itself! This is several times the minimum requriements in areas.
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Old June 11th, 2005, 11:57 AM
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

Are you running at a high resolution? Where there storms or lots of ships on screen at the time? Background programs running? Latest version of directX?
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Old June 11th, 2005, 07:36 PM
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

1024x768, not really, I pulled the AV program to no effect, and yes. I checked the video drivers, too.

What's even weirder is that my dad's system, with an Intel on-motherboard chip in place of the video card and a slightly faster processor gets much better performance, leading me to suspect the video card...
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

MX's aren't exactly what I'd call high power video cards, but that card should be fine for SF. You have it on 3D T&L mode, right?
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

Yes, but I've tried it on 3D non-T&L mode, not much help there, either.
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

Is there any common element on-screen when you are getting these low frame rates?
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

Is it running in software mode and ignoring the 3D card for some reason?

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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

the width of the memory bus of mx4000 is 32 bit, maybe thet is the problem - try turning on the safe mode in the settings - that will make starfury put all texures in the system memory, and it should be fine.
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Default Re: Starfury Very Low Gamespeed

A tad bit faster in safe mode, and Kwok, the only common element is that the game is _running_. When things are on-screen, it's slower, but a lot of the time, even relatively empty screens gave depressingly low framerates.
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