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• memsys at 2005-10-02 02:05
  I want to play jfsw & jfdn3D on 32bit on 1024X768 but its reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaly slow :( what is odd cos i have a pentium 4 3GHz 512 mb ram 128 mb video memory and my os is xp :? , and even ut 2004 runs 100 times faster
• plugwash at 2005-10-02 02:55
  are you running in classic mode or polymost mode?
• Skeksis at 2005-10-02 03:29

  are you running in classic mode or polymost mode?

  At 32 bit, it has to be polymost mode.
• Kyoufu Kawa at 2005-10-02 06:32
  How odd. I've just tried playing JFSW on max resolution, which is in fact slightly taller than my screen at 32bpp, and it was smooth as an android's butt.
  
  To be precise, I ran it at 1280 by 1024 32bpp on a Centrino at 1.73 gigs with 512 megs of RAM. My video card is an nVidea Geforce Go 6600 with 128 megs, powered by DirectX 9.
  
  The only problem was that the top of the screen was cut off.
• Maren at 2005-10-02 06:35

  Re: very odd[sort of]

  I want to play jfsw & jfdn3D on 32bit on 1024X768 but its reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaly slow :( what is odd cos i have a pentium 4 3GHz 512 mb ram 128 mb video memory and my os is xp :? , and even ut 2004 runs 100 times faster

  Update your video drivers?.
• memsys at 2005-10-02 20:51

  drivers

  my video card is a nvida geforce fx 5200 but i can't find drivers :oops:
• ProAsm at 2005-10-02 21:56

  very odd[sort of]

  How odd. I've just tried playing JFSW on max resolution, which is in fact slightly taller than my screen at 32bpp, and it was smooth as an android's butt.

  Please tell us your full specs.
  Also are you refering to the standard maps or user maps.
  Some user maps and TC's hook up very bad for me, and also for many players of JFSW.
  Try this map:
  http://www.proasm.com/files/other/crates.zip
  Also are you playing with keyboard only or mouse and keyboard.
  
  My Specs:
  P4 - 2.8 gig - Intel Mobo - 2 x 512 mb memory in 800 fsb dual ddr.
  nVidia 6600GT256M garphics card with latest drivers.
• plugwash at 2005-10-02 22:37
  try the latest nvidia detonater reference drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_78.01.html . The drivers card manufacturers ship sometimes really suck
• Kyoufu Kawa at 2005-10-02 23:09

  How odd. I've just tried playing JFSW on max resolution, which is in fact slightly taller than my screen at 32bpp, and it was smooth as an android's butt.

  Please tell us your full specs.

  I did! I totally did!
• ProAsm at 2005-10-03 02:27
  Well you have a magic setup.
  I get such bad lockups that I have to sometimes Alt+Ctrl+Del and get a:
  Shadow Warrior v1.999 Not Responding.
  I have 5 PCs with several OS's and all different cards and specs and they all do it.
  On this PC I play Doom3 which is known for its heavy graphics and it plays a smooth as silk.
  UT2004 is a walk in the park but SW or DN is a total No No!
  Oh and I constant check nVidia for new drivers although on Sw and DN I find the old 40.43 drivers work the best.
  Previously I had a ti4200 128m card and I think it was better.
• ProAsm at 2005-10-03 06:43
  Well after some experimenting I found that my Virus protection AVG is causing 80% of my problems.
  I also found that M$ Office running in the background added to the problem.
• )))000((( at 2005-10-03 09:47
  really all the antivirus bullshit makes your Cp as slow as a microbe...
• memsys at 2005-10-06 01:12

  yes it works

  i found new drivers and jfduke runs very good :) and it's time for me to KICK ASS :twisted:
• Kyoufu Kawa at 2005-10-06 01:49

  Re: yes it works

  i found new drivers and jfduke runs very good :) and it's time for me to KICK ASS :twisted:

  Have some gum, before you run out :D
• Fernando at 2005-10-07 00:11

  very odd[sort of]

  It's really better not to have an antivirus, ONLY if you really know how to prevent them (e.g. accessing unknown sites, downloading insecure miscellaneous files, etc.)
  
  I own my new computer since September 2, 2005 and have no antivirus installed. Compared to what I had of RAM memory with antivirus previously installed, you can easily notice it consumes nearly 60MB and it slows down the PC so quickly.
• Spike at 2005-10-07 12:26
  I hope you install one and uninstall one monthly or so and check just in case.
  
  AVG and Avast are free and they take up hardly any system resources, but they have kept me safe. (But I don't like avast cause it digs in real deep and has a million processes going at once :P)
• parkar at 2005-10-26 00:29

  vsync

  Something worth testing is forcing vsync off.
  
  jfDuke ran like shit after I had installed my new 6800gt and nothing seemed to help except forcing vsync of in the driver settings. Both JonoF and TerminX uses a 6800 and both said the tearing was terrible without it on and it ran just fine with it on for them. Not sure what is different on my system but I hardly see any tearing at all. In doom 3 and quake 4 I always run with vsync on or it will look like shit when I turn around.
• piterplus at 2005-10-27 00:37

  Something worth testing is forcing vsync off.

  Did you tried another MaxRefreshFreq in duke3d.cfg ? (for example, 85?)
• Spike at 2005-11-06 15:14

  very odd[sort of]

  Oh and I constant check nVidia for new drivers although on Sw and DN I find the old 40.43 drivers work the best.

  But... they don't even support the 6600GT, the first drivers to do that were 66.93! Weren't they...?