Check my specs out and game performance issues....

[Emosh73]

Hi there,

Here are my specs....

Tbird 1.4

Asus A7M-266

512 megs of crucial DDR pc2100

Evil Kyro2 by Hercules

Hercules GTXP sound card

20 gig IBM GXP

Asus 50 speed cdrom

Windows 2k sp2

Dir X 8.0a

Would you believe that the game still runs sluggish under some circumstances!!!

I thought with my set up why not max out everything right? I did and yet the game takes long to load!!!

When I have many units on the ground and give the command the whole mass formation to move it gets sluggish for awhile!!

with shadows turned all the way up it gets real sluggish!!! so I set it to medium and it runs ok.

The game also kicks me to desk top randomly!!!

So what the heck type of specs does it take to run this game proper I wonder?

has anyone got the game to run smooth with maxed out graphics?

are these issues normal?

[quoudam72]

You shouldn't have everything max-out so much tone it down and the game may run better.

[nemafakei]

Win 2000 is your problem, I think. It takes up a lo of CPU time and RAM.

[alphabeta4000]

that is probably what is wrong as well and stop putting on top settings it might affect that as already pointed out

[Gobalopper]

How much RAM is on your video card?

I have lower specs then you but a 64MB graphics card and can run the game at 1600x1200 max details without slowdown.

[Emosh73]

This can't be right!!!!!

I have 64 megs on my card yet it runs sluggish with many units on the map!!!

this is so strange!!!

[gryphon]

I also think win 2k is the main problem.

It's great but just not suitable for a lot of

games.

[quoudam72]

I'm glad you guys are pointing this stuff out about Windows 2000 cause I was just about to upgrade. You have possibly saved me a very big headache.

[gryphon]

It's not that win 2k is all bad !

You just have to pick the windows ( or even

unix / linux ) version that's best for what you need.

If you'd like LAN or WAN networks, win 2k isn't that bad.

You might even say it's good. But hardware support and

games, if you have hardware that is supported by win 2k

it will work great, but if you don't............

[nemafakei]

Login times over a network can easily treble from NT to 2000. The security background stuff takes up far too much resources, and so computers with 2000 are just too slow (unless you have a VERY good PC).  Thus, it is bad for games.

And what's worse, incompatibility and security grumbles may even restrict you playing Dune II!

[gryphon]

Yep, you can smoothen the login by using

a secundairy Novell network, but then it's

not win 2k anymore.

And Nema Fakei is ( probbebly ) wright, some

of the most simple DOS games you can't play

with win2k.

So mutch for technological progress  ::)

[nemafakei]

As soon as you get a good OS working, you have to upgrade it to the newer version, and then you need new hardware to run it. This cycle has been going since about 1986.

[Commander_JPC]

If you have lock-up problems with a voodoo 3 200o please look here:

http://www.dune2k.com/forum/YaBB.pl?board=emperor-general;action=display;num=1009391186