Lordberek
21-Mar-2003, 23:21
GTA 3 jerky on my Geforce 3 and my friends Geforce 4. Why is it jerky? Not laggy, but jerky, like when I don't have my AGP drivers updated, games will jerk every second... GTA 3 does this even though both our systems are updated with latest hardware, Windows XP and drivers updates. I have to turn down the resolution to 1024x768 and 16bit color to make the jerkyness go away. I still don't feel the game is being perfectly smooth even after this. If I have it at 1280x1024 at 32bit color, it will be extensively jerky, then after I drive around the city for while it will go away somewhat, but not a lot (the 2nd island is worse than the 1st).
Is this simply bad programming on GTA3 part? I have no other games that are like this... wait, Simcity 4 is completely laggy, not jerky but just simply laggy (could be same thing though, different inteface so hard to compare). No reason when the game just doesn't seem that intesive for graphics... yet after a short time Simcity 4 will just CRAWL.
I have 1.5 plus ghz systems... 512 megs ram, decent hard drives WD1200JB. I don't understand why these two games have issues. Will a Radeon 9700 solve my problems over my Geforce 3 and Geforce 2's? Is this my missing link over these two poorly programmed games? Or will nothing I do really help in these respects.
I am currently waiting for the new ATI and Nvidia lines to come out, then once the price drops below $200US for a Radeon 9700, I'm going to pick two of them up.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thnx.
Is this simply bad programming on GTA3 part? I have no other games that are like this... wait, Simcity 4 is completely laggy, not jerky but just simply laggy (could be same thing though, different inteface so hard to compare). No reason when the game just doesn't seem that intesive for graphics... yet after a short time Simcity 4 will just CRAWL.
I have 1.5 plus ghz systems... 512 megs ram, decent hard drives WD1200JB. I don't understand why these two games have issues. Will a Radeon 9700 solve my problems over my Geforce 3 and Geforce 2's? Is this my missing link over these two poorly programmed games? Or will nothing I do really help in these respects.
I am currently waiting for the new ATI and Nvidia lines to come out, then once the price drops below $200US for a Radeon 9700, I'm going to pick two of them up.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thnx.