call of jaurez choppy frames

agnes · 24 Sep 2007 at 15:59

i was playing through it today on xp 32, and it plays awful in some parts, the first town for example, most of it looking around sends my frames seriously down, yet some parts fly so smoothly.

i dont get it, is this game really badly ported?

its really annoying.

ags

WarBird · 24 Sep 2007 at 16:52

no, runs nice and smooth for me lol

akirru · 24 Sep 2007 at 17:19

Woah on your system it should run like BUTTER!!!

yaboy · 24 Sep 2007 at 17:20

I used to get hit bad like out in the open, but I did have everything on high so that was probably why

Last Kronin · 24 Sep 2007 at 17:22

Could be driver related? i got rather poor shadows with old drivers, but i havent noticed any slowdown, but then im using a 2900xt.

Jono8 · 24 Sep 2007 at 22:06

killing shadows from high to medium made it stupidly smooth for me. I got a bit of chugg in floiage with high shadows on.

However i seem to remember the towns having the highest fps. :confused:

WarBird · 24 Sep 2007 at 22:13

Jono8 said:
killing shadows from high to medium made it stupidly smooth for me. I got a bit of chugg in floiage with high shadows on.

However i seem to remember the towns having the highest fps.

yea me too, i remember the lowest fps being out in the open.....like when you have the horse

Hayley-K · 24 Sep 2007 at 22:30

I played most of it with an x1600xt!! Towards the end of the game the card struggled, I upgraded my card around that time to a 7900GTO and it ran fine after that.

Its the grass that kills the frames, so try turning the grass density down. I remember looking out over the town near the beginning of the game was a real frame killer even for my mates x1900xtx.

hardc0re_tid · 25 Sep 2007 at 10:33

WarBird said:
no, runs nice and smooth for me lol

it runs sweet as on my 6300 @ 3.15 and 7900gto at stock, pretty much everything enabled.

wonder how it will run on my quad 66 and 8800gtx with 4 gig ram

melbourne720 · 25 Sep 2007 at 15:02

probably an SLi bug, try disabling one of the GTXs, and repeat

agnes · 25 Sep 2007 at 16:19

cheers guys, i tried the sli option, still the same problem, and the shadows, same problem, so ive uninstalled it and reinstalled splinter cell double agent lol.

ill try CoJ tonight at some point.

also, switched from shader model 3.0 to 2.0 still no joy.

im using 169.69 drivers.

ags