AMD1800 to AMD3000 - Tribes 2 performance much worse

{CG}Pendragon
03-26-2004, 09:38 PM
I had my last mobo blow due to bad capacitors.

I got an Asus mobo - the basic Nforce 2 one
AMD XP3000+
2 X 512MB - Kingston HyperX CAS2.0

GF4 Ti4600

Hitachi 180G

Audigy2 6.1

Pretty good system - Vid is a bit old, but still very fast in any game - just lacks some of the best DX9 eye candy.

Every game I try (except Far Cry demo) is silky smooth on this system. I dont run anything significant in the background.

When I run T2, I feel like I am getting maybe 20-30 fps anytime I look at a building or anything geometrically complex.

When I look at plain landscape, it gets real fast 60-100fps+ but when it slows down, its frustrating.

I did not have this problem on my XP1800 system with 256MB and the same vid card.

Are there certain drivers that work badly in T2 or something I should check? I have tried lowering the detail, and it helps a little, but I still have the problem - and my system should get a constant 100+fps at full detail on T2

Barbarian
03-27-2004, 03:42 PM
This is because Tribes 2 detected the change and ran the system profiles again. It probably jacked up interior detail and shape detail to the max.

Also, did you reinstall windows? (only if you swapped the motherboard too)