Alot of in-game problem threads have came up in the past several days. So in this thread post your problems that have occurted in your game. Here are some tips on how to avoid slow game play.

Turn off all trails and reduce draw distance.
To do this, goto options and then to settings, they should be there.
Tip From: D Ice

Remember to install Direct X 8.1
Remember to install the newest driver, Direct C 8.1 It should be on your disk but if its not, Here it is.

Appox download: 1 hour, 10 minutes on a 56k modem using AOL.

size: 11.5 mega bytes

Transfer rate: 3.0 kb per second.
Tip from:Smoke


Have any other problems with the game after trying these, please, post them here.

I have a well powerfull computer yet it doesn't run good. Help me.

fanatic-took out unnecessary part

This message was edited by fanatic(moderator) on May 25 2002.

If you have graphic problems or something like that and you have Windows XP, go and download at this site: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Patch/Q306676/WXP/EN-US/Q306676_WXP_SP1_x86_ENU.exe. I downloaded and it worked! I was so happy after that! Can't guarantee that it will work though.

that site doesn't work

Click {here} to download the patch that "TheNutCase" is talking about.

I thought I'd post this, which is just a copy and paste from a site, and a bit more from some other sites. So this is what to do if you are having problems:

Make sure you PC is running fine! Sounds obvious, but if you have a flaky OS, putting a brand new game that uses all the hardware you can throw at it is hardly likely to improve matters. Things to check are:

Motherboard Drivers. Ensure you have the current version. See VIA Hardware or Intel which ought to cover most motherboards. Failing that, go to you manufacturers web site. If you don't know, have a look at your motherboard, it should be printed on it or watch the post screens when booting for clues. Do a search for the serial number that flashes up (press pause/break to read it).

Graphics Card Drivers. Once again, download the most up-to-date, preferable non-beta drivers you can find. You should obtain then from either your board manufacturer if you graphics card has some funky custom features, or get the reference drivers from the chip manufacturers. The most common ones are here:

• nVidia - TNT, GForce 2/3/4.
  
  If the game looks like you are playing in the middle of the worst Fog bank ever your should try this:
  
  Right Click on Desktop
  Left Click on Properties
  Select Settings Tab
  Select Advanced Properties
  Select GeForce Tab
  Select Additional Properties
  Select Direct3D Setting Tab
  Tick "Enable Fog Table Emulation"
  Select Apply
  OK then exit
  
  
• ATI - Radeon.
  
  
• Voodoo 3/4/5 (even supporting WinXP!).

Soundcard Drivers. Fairly straight forward here, get the latest, does anyone have anything other than a Soundblaster?

Clean Out your Registry. There are many tools out there that claim to do this or that. Use whatever you feel comfortable with. I recommend Microsoft's very own, and very free Regclean, old and effective, just like me

DirectX 8.1. Make sure you are running DX8.1.

WinXP Users. Despite WinXP actually being supplied with DX8.1 in-game menus are likely to be screwed up unless you download & install this file from the MS Knowledgebase which fixes a couple of DX files and a smattering of others.

Close Other Applications. There is no sense in running you virus checker, firewall and so on when running this game at the same time. Particularly if you don't have an Über PC with a lot of RAM. Shut them down and do a quick [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] and see what is still running in the task manager. Unless you have some freaky hardware attached or Force Feedback controllers, you should see little more than Explorer & systray.

In-Game Options Menu

Sound
The simplest method of uping the games performance here is to disable Dynamic Acoustic Modeling and select the correct audio hardware. There are options for a variety of hardware, select the one nearest to yours, it will not let you select hardware that you do not have, so experiment with Rad Games Tools ASX 3D Audio if you have 4.1 or better speakers and Miles Fast 2D positional Audio if you only have stereo.
Don't bother with DSound Software Mode unless all else fails.

Display
Prbably thess options are the cause of your problems.
Turn off Frame Synch, the Limiter & most importantly trails which makes everything unwatchable in the first place. Once these are disabled the game stops being a 4 frames a second mess and looks almost playable.

The Frame Limiter does just what is says and hold the game to 30fps. If you are still suffering with choppy play, a symptom caused by the frame rate yo-yoing, turn this feature back on.

You can turn off the subtitles too, but as some of the briefing speech is difficult to understand, I left it on.

I normally run games at 1280 x 960, but as you can see 1024 x 768 is a high as I can go without the game being unacceptable choppy. 16 or 32 Bit made no difference on my GForce 2, time to buy a new card methinks. Reducing the game to 800 x 600 makes every thing run a smooth as silk, which makes this game the first one in a couple of years using D3D or OpenGL that brings my PC to its knees.

You should also reduce the draw distance if your graphics card isn't a GF4 or a Radeon 8500. It means obejects materialise as you drive round the city, but it does seem to help.


This message was edited by D Ice on May 26 2002.

This message was edited by D Ice on May 26 2002.

Nice stuff D Ice. Im sure that well help alot of people when on the GForce problem. Anybody else need help?

Question:
will the amount of mp3s you put in your game efect how it runs, because I'm gonna put in a whole lot, but I wanna know if it slows it down:confused:

This message was edited by Bizzybone702 on May 26 2002.

Yeah my game has been slowing down lately and I thought it might of been because I had too many songs.

Yea, I was just gonna put like a crap load of songs, maybe about 200 But I decided to come on here and ask and see what would happen....

How many MP3's are you talking about here? I have about fifteen MP3's and I haven't noticed any slowing effects thus far.

Well, I'm go put my 200 songs in and see if it effects the way the game runs on the computer;)

Well I just put in 40 songs and the game didn't slow down at all. I'll try to put in 80 songs in a little while and see if theres a difference;)

Hey I'm having a problem loading saved games, i seen some other posts having the same problem and there was only 1 responce but the website is no good. I guess it's some type of fix, so if anyone else knows about this and can fix please help me out. Thanks
~craig

If you don't mind, can you post your systems stuff? Just to see if it has anything that doesnt meet the requirements.