High Detail Settings Requirements?

[svr]

I got xp 2600+, 1 gt DDR, r9800 PRO, win xp pro sp2 and latest ati drivers. If i run the game with high details, it starts choking when theres 150+ units on screen (i mean single units). Medium details runs it fine. I play mostly FFA.

Any tuning hints?

[Moe]

Lets see your warnings.log and dxdiag.txt please.

[leakypipe86]

May I ask the speed of your RAM?

I run a:
ASUS P4SD-LA
P4 2.6 Ghz w/ HT
1 GB DDR SDRAM PC2700
128MB Radeon 9800 Pro

I run 1280x1024 on 32 bit, everything on high except shadows on low. I manage to drop to 5 FPS with hundreds of units on-screen all killing each other. I've submitted my DirectX and warning logs here numerous but no one could help me. Even dropping my resolution to 800x600 on 16 bit all every setting on low/off I gained a grand total of about 3-5 FPS. How does that make ANY sense?
Finally, on some other forums they told me my RAM is holding my mobo back from performing the way it should. It is a 800 FSB mobo and it needs at least PC3200 RAM to operate at full speed.

[svr]

My ram is DDR 333. Its just it starts choking when theres 150+ units on screen. Medium details are working fine. Here are the files.

http://www.tutka.net/~svr/DxDiag.txt
http://www.tutka.net/~svr/warnings.log

[leakypipe86]

That means you have PC2700 RAM. Can your mobo support any higher? If it can, you need to upgrade to PC3200 like I will.

[Moe]

You could try setting your AGP aperture size a little higher.

[leakypipe86]

Moe, I got a question. My BIOS settings (well the important ones anyway) are locked to protect my comp from being "ruined" says Compaq. I can't overclock my CPU or change important settings! Is there any way to change the AGP Aperature size not through the BIOS? Its set at 64 and maybe 128 will give me some kind of performance boost. Is there some kind of program or something that will let me?

[svr]

What do i set it to, 128, 256 or 512 ?

I set it to 256 for now. I'll see results later.

[Moe]

It depends on your RAM, svr. I wouldn't set it much higher than what your video card already has. Of course, if you have 1.5 GB of RAM, you may try high settings, but I'm not sure how much of a boost that will give you, it might not do anything for you.
leaky: No clue, can you try asking compaq tech support about that?

[leakypipe86]

They only told me that my mobo is locked for safety reasons so I can't change it. I was hoping for a third party program that would let me but I doubt there is something like that out. :werd:

[Esper]

Changing agp aperture size will not increase performance, just so you know. It will increase stability by treating some system ram as semi-video card ram.

Its a memory management thing, so good drivers will help out more in that sense than anything else.

Sucks about compaq man. Thats the kind of reason to stay away from pre-built machines.