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Games run too fast?
I was just wondering if anyone is having the same problem?
When I try to play crazy taxi 3 or beyond good and evil the game plays much to fast (for example in beyond good and evil the little intro video ends before the voice over is even 1/2 way done. In crazy taxi it looks like your doing about 2000 MPH :) things just fly by). Its almost like its skipping frames (which of course would mean the games really playing to slow) anyway, I have tried everything to fix it. I have tried every possible bios for the 600M laptop. I am using the newest cat. driver from ATI (64 meg mobility 9000).
I have played with all the setting for the 3D options in the cat driver, vsync on\off\app. pref. nothing helps.
Other games run just fine (like starwars KOTOR).
I know that many of these games might not have offical support by the company for laptops but I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem?
Thanks
Shane
When I try to play crazy taxi 3 or beyond good and evil the game plays much to fast (for example in beyond good and evil the little intro video ends before the voice over is even 1/2 way done. In crazy taxi it looks like your doing about 2000 MPH :) things just fly by). Its almost like its skipping frames (which of course would mean the games really playing to slow) anyway, I have tried everything to fix it. I have tried every possible bios for the 600M laptop. I am using the newest cat. driver from ATI (64 meg mobility 9000).
I have played with all the setting for the 3D options in the cat driver, vsync on\off\app. pref. nothing helps.
Other games run just fine (like starwars KOTOR).
I know that many of these games might not have offical support by the company for laptops but I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem?
Thanks
Shane
cking32
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February 9th, 2004 11:00
How old are those games. Only time i have ever seen this same thing was on my old 486. I had a version of the old contra for the computer, It ran great on the 386/SX i had prior but when i got the 486 the guys ran across the screen in about 2 seconds. In that case it was a game design issue.
mikers85
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February 9th, 2004 14:00
smithfan
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February 9th, 2004 18:00
I did some more searching. I thought it had something to do with the video chipset (which is why I posted it here) but as it turns out its the CPU. The speed stepping messing things up. If I use a util to set the cpu to max speed all the time so it doesnt have to "get up to speed" so to speak Crazy taxi 3 will run just fine. Beyond good and evil still has the same problem. Both games are under 2 months old.
Shane