splinter cell

[wpenhall]

Originally posted by: wpenhall
I'm having a strange problem with the game - even at 800x600, when I move my mouse (logi MX500, MW9.76) quickly in a circle, the room spins smoothly around Sam for about one rotation, then the scene skips and seems to reset itself. Is this part of the program - i.e. the camera resets after returning to a certain position, or am I having some real lag here? I'm thinking it's lag because I also have the problem on the menu screens. If I quickly move the mouse on the menus, the pointer tracks for awhile and then freezes - and then jumps to the new position after 1/2 second or so (along with a slight pop in the audio). This only happens in SC - not in any other application or game. Am I missing something or do I just lack the juice to get full-time smoothness out of this resource-intensive game?

UPDATE: I played with this some more, and found that I'm getting this lag even at 640x480 and when I move my mouse slowly. The effect is like: the scene follows the mouse movement smoothly for a few seconds, then pauses (as I keep moving the mouse), but then rushes to catch up after a half-second delay or so. I've tried it with and without the logi Mouseware software installed and there was no difference. Does anyone have any ideas for how I could eliminate this?

Thanks!

 

[BenSkywalker]

One of the current high end boards running SC.

One of the other boards running SC

Both of these are with settings maxed out. One of them is limited to a lack of feature support and can't match the others image quality. I haven't seen any good benches showing the performance difference with the board that can run both, but comparing ATi and nVidia right now appears to be invalid. For those that have picture #1 visuals, my understanding is that there is no fix forthcoming(the boards simply lack the hardware feature to handle it).

 

[wpenhall]

Hmmm...

All the effects show up and look rather nice on my machine (even at the low, low, and low settings) - my problem really is the stuttering and the lag. I would think a GF3 Ti200 could run this game smoothly on 640x480 and everything set to low - but for some reason mine does not.

Any ideas, or is just time to upgrade to new hardware?

 

[BenSkywalker]

Forgot to mention, disable EAX HD. Your board does not support it.

Have you tried turning all the shadows down/off? It should be running fine on your system(and yes, you will see all of the effects on your board with everything set to high ).

 

[Ordo2000]

Get the Xbox version... I think I saw someone mention the Cube... Don't waste your time, get the Xbox version!