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JeanFrancois · 01-28-2003, 05:19 AM

I'm sticking with Dx8.1 till I need Dx9, it's not doing anything for me right now. As for the rest...

1.3 can either be not bad at all, or horribly crappy (if it's one of the few 1.3Ghz P4s heaven forbid.) 512Mb is just right, but it still might want to swap to harddrive. When you say you have little harddrive space, do you mean like 5 megs free space, <200Mb, <1Gb, etc? On your (by default main) harddrive where the swapfile is, try to keep at least 500-700 megs free for the windows swap file. It will use this space if it runs out of real ram, and put not so important things there. But if the swapfile's too small, it's not going to be too happy, and will keep moving stuff around and you won't be too happy because performance will suck. So try to maintain that buffer zone.

Onboard sound can be decent enough, just remember to have the newest drivers for it. I have a personal grudge against all things S3 Savage related, so I'm biased against it from the beginning, but I'll second (third? or forth? whatever) the 4200 option. I've got one, it's nice, it's good value and it's still hella fast. The mouse delay you mentioned is framerate I'd say, or there's a mouse sensitivty setting in BF, look for it. For example, the default mouse settings in Unreal Tournament were soooo slow, this could be the same thing.

Get the 4200, keep some HD space free and everything should be frosty.

01-28-2003, 05:19 AM	#9 (permalink)
JeanFrancois Chief Warrant Officer First Class Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,039	I'm sticking with Dx8.1 till I need Dx9, it's not doing anything for me right now. As for the rest... 1.3 can either be not bad at all, or horribly crappy (if it's one of the few 1.3Ghz P4s heaven forbid.) 512Mb is just right, but it still might want to swap to harddrive. When you say you have little harddrive space, do you mean like 5 megs free space, <200Mb, <1Gb, etc? On your (by default main) harddrive where the swapfile is, try to keep at least 500-700 megs free for the windows swap file. It will use this space if it runs out of real ram, and put not so important things there. But if the swapfile's too small, it's not going to be too happy, and will keep moving stuff around and you won't be too happy because performance will suck. So try to maintain that buffer zone. Onboard sound can be decent enough, just remember to have the newest drivers for it. I have a personal grudge against all things S3 Savage related, so I'm biased against it from the beginning, but I'll second (third? or forth? whatever) the 4200 option. I've got one, it's nice, it's good value and it's still hella fast. The mouse delay you mentioned is framerate I'd say, or there's a mouse sensitivty setting in BF, look for it. For example, the default mouse settings in Unreal Tournament were soooo slow, this could be the same thing. Get the 4200, keep some HD space free and everything should be frosty. __________________ Don\'t feed the trolls.