Cartoon Corpse
Veteran
im replaying gta vice city on my old 1.4Gz, 1Grdram, 9700pro rig.
although now...loading savegames takes a minute or so (black screen) AND when i am loaded, the textures don't load till (longtime) after im in area (especially when moving fast, like in a car)...im surrounded by blur (no curbs, railings, windows) just blurred boxes (buildings) and plains (streets)...also get 1-2 seconds loading... screen every 500? ft or so. after i've been playing awhile (visit and revisit same areas), they seem to improve greatly
in previous vice city excursions, the only load time i experienced was crossing bridges, i'd get a .5 second "welcome to...." popup. loading games missions was practically instantaneous.
(as a matter of standard procedure) i kill all killable pc procs before gaming. also defragged last weekend. no viruses.
outside of game, everything seems normal on desktop.
from the symptoms i've described, is this a combonation of under performing hardware? or could this be solely the GPU?
it is 3-4 years old. do the GPU's get tired after awhile?
could it be something else? hard drive going? (doesn't explain texture loading while driving does it?)
although now...loading savegames takes a minute or so (black screen) AND when i am loaded, the textures don't load till (longtime) after im in area (especially when moving fast, like in a car)...im surrounded by blur (no curbs, railings, windows) just blurred boxes (buildings) and plains (streets)...also get 1-2 seconds loading... screen every 500? ft or so. after i've been playing awhile (visit and revisit same areas), they seem to improve greatly
in previous vice city excursions, the only load time i experienced was crossing bridges, i'd get a .5 second "welcome to...." popup. loading games missions was practically instantaneous.
(as a matter of standard procedure) i kill all killable pc procs before gaming. also defragged last weekend. no viruses.
outside of game, everything seems normal on desktop.
from the symptoms i've described, is this a combonation of under performing hardware? or could this be solely the GPU?
it is 3-4 years old. do the GPU's get tired after awhile?
could it be something else? hard drive going? (doesn't explain texture loading while driving does it?)