call of duty poor performance

romperstomper · 15 Aug 2008 at 01:51

I dusted of this game which I have not played for a few years and as its an old game turned all the settings up to max and it was unplayable :confused:

So I have adjusted the settings to medium and it still plays pretty bad :confused:

Now my sig spec is pretty high and I have my pc and graphics card overclocked to the max .
It plays crysis on max settings for xp just fine also oblivion etc. so why not this old game :confused:

BEn_2600+ · 15 Aug 2008 at 01:53

Id say its a driver incompatiability with the game being sooo old you should be able to run it at Max res 128xAA 2347699xAF etc

snowdog · 15 Aug 2008 at 02:03

It's openGL isn't it? Try enabling the extension limit (in the nvidia panel) although don't know if that helps but nvidia reocmmends it for old opengl games.

Also perhaps try running it on 1 core...

romperstomper · 15 Aug 2008 at 02:16

snowdog said:
It's openGL isn't it? Try enabling the extension limit (in the nvidia panel) although don't know if that helps but nvidia reocmmends it for old opengl games.

Also perhaps try running it on 1 core...

how do you switch of the other 3 cores ?

Dogoid · 15 Aug 2008 at 02:19

romperstomper said:
how do you switch of the other 3 cores ?

task manager. right click the games running process, and set affinity

snowdog · 15 Aug 2008 at 02:20

romperstomper said:
how do you switch of the other 3 cores ?

set affinity to one core in task manager when alt tabbing on the process in question.
This only does it for that session though there used to be some kind of shortcut command you could add to your shortcut but I don't know it.

romperstomper · 15 Aug 2008 at 02:27

thanks guys

romperstomper · 15 Aug 2008 at 02:28

snowdog said:
It's openGL isn't it? Try enabling the extension limit (in the nvidia panel) although don't know if that helps but nvidia reocmmends it for old opengl games.

Also perhaps try running it on 1 core...

have tried 1 core but its had no effect on performance .

I'm in nvidia control panel but it does not seem to have an option for open GL !

~>Dg<~ · 15 Aug 2008 at 11:30

set infinity on cpu for a start then with 8800 cards its in graphics options i believe.they cant do a certain lighting option just turn it off(graphics menu in game) and it will be fine.

HangTime · 15 Aug 2008 at 19:37

In nvidia control panel, set "threaded optimization" to off.
Also try renaming your config file so that it starts up in default settings in case you've got a rogue setting somewhere.

zenmor · 15 Aug 2008 at 20:04

Im not sure if it is the quad core, i have one and i have no probs at all with cod4

BEn_2600+ · 15 Aug 2008 at 20:53

zenmor said:
Im not sure if it is the quad core, i have one and i have no probs at all with cod4

But thats a fairly new game COD1 is about 5 years old now

zenmor · 15 Aug 2008 at 21:00

oops.. I read the thread as call of duty 4. not 1.
I do have 1 somewhere around here tho, will have to give it a go

hohum · 15 Aug 2008 at 21:08

HangTime said:
In nvidia control panel, set "threaded optimization" to off.

This. Do it for the game's profile listed in the control panel though, that way you won't need to keep switching it on and off when you want to play something else.

romperstomper · 15 Aug 2008 at 21:26

HangTime said:
In nvidia control panel, set "threaded optimization" to off.
Also try renaming your config file so that it starts up in default settings in case you've got a rogue setting somewhere.

no idea what I was doing ,but that seems to have helped ,thanks

HangTime · 16 Aug 2008 at 20:17

Was speculation on my part based on the fact that Quakeworld (another OpenGL game using an id engine) stutters pretty badly with Threaded Optimization enabled, glad it helped you with CoD too.