[RESOLVED] Everquest in ME with DX8

[eedmond]

I have a Asus P3B-F with 256MB Ram Celeron 500 and a Diamond Viper V770 Ultra. I just bought a new Maxtor 40GB HD and when I did I did a clean install of ME (Previous upgraded over 98SE). I leave my computer on 24/7. I have Turn off HD disabled.

Problem: EQ has the Herky Jerkies after I get home from work and my computer has been on all day.

Weird thing is the only things that have changed are: A. Hard Drive (20GB Maxtor to a 40GB Maxtor)
and B. Windows ME clean install (Previous was ME over 98SE, which had no problems).

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric

[Ebu]

You said DX8 in your topic. Did you install Direct X 8 with th enew install and not the old one(over win98)? Cause a lot of the time your drivers for your video card have to be able to support DX8. Check the drivers.

------------------
When everything fails, reinstall the OS.

[eedmond]

Nope had DX 8 on the old one too. All things where the same except new hard drive and clean install on that hd.

-Eric

[Danrak]

Try looking here:
http://boards.station.sony.com/everq...=10&LastLogin=

It seems some people that are running ME have had problems with the lastest updates from everquest. I tried looking for someone with your setup but could not find any.

------------------
.·°Danrak°·.
Never let the facts get in the way of a carefully thought-out bad decision.

[eedmond]

Well I seemed to have fixed the problem. I forgot that before I had specified that I control my virtual memory settings and in the new WIN ME I had not switched it over to my control. So I switched it to use 1gig to 2 gigs of HD space and the problem went away.

TTYL,
Eric

[Komok]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by eedmond:
Well I seemed to have fixed the problem. I forgot that before I had specified that I control my virtual memory settings and in the new WIN ME I had not switched it over to my control. So I switched it to use 1gig to 2 gigs of HD space and the problem went away.

TTYL,
Eric</font>

Ain't that a lil' bit too much for a b¤#!!in' swap file?



------------------
A person who argues must be completely sure in himself. A thinking person would never be completely sure in anything. That's why two thinking persons would never argue; share their points of view they will

[cheras]

2 GIG..!!! what appplication use that much..? Well i might try it muself too to see if this is a good idea..

------------------
No matter what,
No matter where,
If there is broadband connection,
There is HOME.

[condor]

A good swap file is 2 - 2.5 Times th RAM Size with THE SAME MINIMAL AND MAXIMAL VALUE !!!! (Swap file resizing is a nightmare)

Another good Idea is to put it in it's own partition or better yet on another hard drive in a sepereate partition (only for swap) this way there's no chance it'll get fragmented and if you use 2 HDD and put the swap on the disk where windows IS NOT installed than Disk I/O operations are optimized as well.

Just a thought

------------------
Computers do exactly as you tell them - not what you want them to do ...

[scutterboy]

I've got a Viper v770 in my box at work.. It's not a bad card. I don't know if you know but it is an Nvidia TNT2 Ultra chipset. I run the Nvidia Detonator3 driver it flys when compared to the diamond stuff.

It's not too suprising that the support is a bit feeble when you consider what a tangled rebranded mess "diamond, s3, sonic blue?" are.

http://www.s3.com/default.asp?menu=s...&item=graphics

------------------
And Control Enter STILL wont let me post a reply.

[SiCkNuT]

Yeah I have a v770 card as well, I only ever use the NVIDIA drivers because Diamond/s3 never update theirs! I also have a 1gig swapfile on a separate partition on the same drive as my OS.. Seems to run sweet.

------------------
[ i N S A N i T Y 2 0 o 1 ]

[Darkpoint]

Well...u said u have 256 MB of ram, so u should have a 512-640MB swap file. Only a power user like me with 512MB ram should have a swap file of 1GB or so.

There's a neat prog called casheman which shows u on a graph how much ram and swap file is being used. I don't remember where I got it from, but it's out there.



------------------
Ahhh nostalgia. I remember our 286-12 1MB ram, 40MB HD

[Tom Keefer]

Here's the Cacheman URL: www.outertech.com

It's freeware, only takes up 496 (approx.) KB and all the author asks for is a picture postcard from your hometown.

------------------
Tom

[eedmond]

Well, I had heard it was supposed to 3.5X your memory. I forgot that it was supposed to be both min and max=3.5xRam. Kinda a moot point now. I bought Win2k.

Also I have tried all the drivers for NVidia and they cause my system to lock up. Only with the original drivers from when I bought the card does my computer not have any problems relating to video.

S3/Diamond no longer updates any video cards that were not made (chipset wise) by S3. They discontinued support for ALL Nvidia cards and any other brand name chipsets that is not a S3 chipset.

Win2k Here I come!

-Eric

[This message has been edited by eedmond (edited February 06, 2001).]