Low Specced PC

[Xanetia]

Hi guys,

I was attracted to your game cause a it was free :p, and B cause it claimed to run on low spec PC's.

Now I have:
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.8GHz and 2 of them apparently.
2.5 gigs of RAM,
GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

Running Vista Ultimate

Which from your information should run nexuiz. Now I've updated the drivers and everything, tried some of the scripts on the forums but nothing I seem to do works.

My issue is that the game runs at an FPS in the range of 1 to 16 and I can't see any of the bots in singleplayer (havent even attempted multiplayer) the mouse is terribly slow even on the menu's having to wait up to 1/2 a second till it updates/moves on screen.

So what I really want to know is what you guys did to make the game run on this:
Low Quality
- 1 Ghz Pentium III or AMD Athlon
- Geforce2 Video card
- 512 MB of ram

As stated on your info page.

Thanks in advance!

[C.Brutail]

Being a HC linux fan, I'd say it's Vista + sucky drivers.
Btw these are the lowest specs I'd dare to run Nexuiz on:

http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopi ... 5053#15053

Anyway, I'd say somehow OpenGL is still not working on that box, that's why you get so low FPS.

[Ed]

Vista drivers, almost certainly. If you're not even seeing other players, there's something definitely wrong with OpenGL rendering.

I've had Nexuiz just about playable on a Penitum 3 550 with a Geforce FX5600.

I've also run a set of experiments with an Athlon XP2400+ with a Geforce256 and a Radeon 9000 under Win2K and both were playable on lower settings so it's not beyond the hardware.

Where have you updated your graphics card drivers from? The drivers MS supplies are broken for OpenGL. If you got them from nVIDIA, there may be some massive holes in nVIDIA's Geforce 4 support for Vista. Looking at nVIDIA's driver support pages, they don't list Vista as being supported for the Geforce 4 so anything you do get working would be a bonus.

[Xanetia]

Thanks for the reply, I think im over those specs.

Personally I'd like to blame it on vista drivers too, cause before we upgraded I ran TF2 with no problems on XP.

With OpenGL, I would have thought that if it wasn't working I would see nothing?
In any case I'll have a look into that as an issue.

[Xanetia]

Ah thanks Ed. I ran into that info just after.

Looks like I'll have to dual-boot XP - or maybe I'll do linux, bin thinkin that for a while.

Damn windows and damn NVIDIA!!!

[C.Brutail]

I don't know how that works,but low FPS on a good pc even in the menu surely indicates the lack of opengl acceleration.

[Xanetia]

Yea pretty much thats it, Vista doesn't support OpenGL for my graphics card. And my graphics card is not supported by NVIDIA for Vista either. So it was probably a miracle I could load the menu!

I'm dual booting my PC to have Linux TODAY! then some of my problems may get solved.

Then again it might not, but not much lost, I get linux, and I still have other PC's I can play on - just want this one working for my siblings so we can play it on lan...

[divVerent]

the latest driver from nvidia does not support your card any more? they already discontinued geforce4 drivers too?

[Urmel]

Right. The oldest generation that's listed on their Windows driver download section is the GF4. If you want a Vista driver, you need at least a Geforce FX (5). The "most current" Vista driver for older Geforces is version 96.85, for XP it's the 175.16 which sucks for the old cards anyway, or let's say every AGP card. I strongly recommend to use a version 93.71 or older. And so does Nvidia

[divVerent]

Just checked - indeed, damn nvidia. No vista drivers for a GF4 card.

Even Linux 64bit is supported for them...