Why is Giants so slow???

Jespark

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I've been playing Giants: Citizen Kabuto (excellent
game)!!!!!

But It's been very hard to play It here, in my Athlon K7
800 MHz, Asus v7100 + 128MB PC133 NEC.
In the beginning of the game, I have about 30/40 fps. As
I start constructing stuff, and monsters appearing, It
gets more and more slow... By the middle of the game, I
have about 10-20 fps. Looking at the ground helps making
the game faster, <b>but only in the start, after the
monsters and constructions came, the game is permanently
slowed.</b> It will only get better after a new stage is
started.

I'm thinking that can be too little RAM. Can It be??
128MB should de enough for a decent playing... Or is my
processor that is too bad? Or the game is just that
heavy?

Black & White is also worse that I expected. I thoght my PC was pretty good🙁...

I am playing those games at 1024x768x16, max details

Please help! What soul I do? Buy more RAM, a new processor or things really are this way?

[SOA]Jespark
 
RAM will help because once the graphics on the screen increases then I starts hogging memory. Once you run out of physical memory then your computers starts using Virtual Memory. Your only solution is getting a faster graphics card, increasing your memory, and getting a fast CPU.

Or you could just lower you resolution to 800x600.

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But lowering the resolution does not help! It keeps bad anyway. I'm wondering if Giants is just that slow or my PC is too bad or having problems.
As I sad, can 128 MB not be enough for a decent (not excelent, just decent) playing? I can buy more 128 MB, but new graphics and processor not.

By the way, I have 2000 3dmarks2001 and 80 FPS with quake3 1024x768x16.

I know that stuff of virtual memory and things like that... But like I sad, an Athlon 800 and GeForce 2 MX must play today's games!

[SOA]Jespark
 
Try setting your virtual memory manually if you're worried it's a memory issue. Set the low end to 128 mb and the high to 256 mb. I got that tip off of some tweak site and it seems to make my memory work better for me.

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I think it's a combination of having an older processor, low amount of RAM, and a GeForce 2 MX. I was running Giants on a GF2 MX and it got choppy at times at 1024x768@32bit color.

Now I've got 512megs of PC2100, GeForce 2 Pro (oc'd) and a T-bird OC'd to 1Ghz... runs great =)

-MP Jesse

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