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samjc3
#1 Female Member
Working on the ME2 .ini right now. Prolly test in a few minutes.
Also, ordered my battery cells. Found a 10ah 14.8v pack for 89$, of a type that has good reviews all over the place. However, I did not get a charger or protection circuit. if anyone has either of those, I have quite a bit of stuff I could trade. Or I can wait until tuesday, my birthday, and buy em then.
Also, ordered my battery cells. Found a 10ah 14.8v pack for 89$, of a type that has good reviews all over the place. However, I did not get a charger or protection circuit. if anyone has either of those, I have quite a bit of stuff I could trade. Or I can wait until tuesday, my birthday, and buy em then.
samjc3
#1 Female Member
I have neither of those games, thus am unable to post specs.
I edited the ini for ME2 pretty severely, but I still have issues. I think my issues are from incompatibility, not lack of power. The ION is not supported by ME1 or 2, and neither is the 9400gm. The 9400gt is however, so I wonder if I could force the games into seeing the ION as that?
I looked into overclocking for quite awhile today. I found one guy claiming to have done it on the exact hardware ive got using a slightly modified version of OCtuner for hp mini 311's, but what he said he did didnt work for me. I also tried several other things to no avail. The Nvidia hardware performance suite allows me to overclock my GPU, and supposedly CPU, but any changes to the CPU result in error. GPU clocking works fine though. And there is a bit of an increase in all my games. I only clocked the GPU up a little bit, to what the "optimum" value came back as. (bout 50mhz over stock) Perhaps I shall increase that later.
I fear my only option for overclocking is to find a BIOS that supports it, but I dont know if I can just use any BIOS for the Mcp7a-ion chipset, or if I need one that is motherboard specific. I really dont want to break my PC, either, so a maybe is not good enough. i will need to be certain before I flash the BIOS. Another option would be to find a BIOS for a rebranded version of my exact computer, but I am unsure of what any of the rebranded versions are called, or who makes em.
I edited the ini for ME2 pretty severely, but I still have issues. I think my issues are from incompatibility, not lack of power. The ION is not supported by ME1 or 2, and neither is the 9400gm. The 9400gt is however, so I wonder if I could force the games into seeing the ION as that?
I looked into overclocking for quite awhile today. I found one guy claiming to have done it on the exact hardware ive got using a slightly modified version of OCtuner for hp mini 311's, but what he said he did didnt work for me. I also tried several other things to no avail. The Nvidia hardware performance suite allows me to overclock my GPU, and supposedly CPU, but any changes to the CPU result in error. GPU clocking works fine though. And there is a bit of an increase in all my games. I only clocked the GPU up a little bit, to what the "optimum" value came back as. (bout 50mhz over stock) Perhaps I shall increase that later.
I fear my only option for overclocking is to find a BIOS that supports it, but I dont know if I can just use any BIOS for the Mcp7a-ion chipset, or if I need one that is motherboard specific. I really dont want to break my PC, either, so a maybe is not good enough. i will need to be certain before I flash the BIOS. Another option would be to find a BIOS for a rebranded version of my exact computer, but I am unsure of what any of the rebranded versions are called, or who makes em.
samjc3
#1 Female Member
Hmm. I hadnt touched any of those settings. I had only messed with the render parameters under Coalesced. i must try that now. And yes, I am using the most latestest drivers.XCVG said:
Also, I am debating picking up some Shin-Etsu Micro Si. I hear it is better than Arctic Silver 5, and my processors do run a bit hot. (idle at 50-60C, peak at 85C) Anyone know for sure?
EDIT:
Tried out those ME2 tweaks. I havent tested too much, but it seems like it improved some things, and made others worse. But that could have also been windows taking its sweet time to enable realtime priority on ME2.exe. (I did have it at priority)
But, in my testing, the combat on Freedoms Progress (only the YMIR section) was laggy, at best, nearly unplayable, at worst. Then the cutscenes following that were also laggy, as was being on the normandy. then I went to Omega. And, so far, on Omega, everything seems quite great. Better framerates than Ive seen anywhere, which is odd, because Afterlife is one of the most crowded places in the game, and has a ton of particle and light effects to boot.
I will test some more, but, at the moment, I am quite perplexed.
samjc3
#1 Female Member
Oh my god YES! I played through the entirety of Garrus' recruitment mission, and it remained playable the whole time! the frame sometimes dropped, but not once did it get even close to as low as it had been before. Oddly, while onboard the Normandy, there is a pretty hefty amount of lag. But i am okay with that.
Also, regarding GPU overclocking: In the Nvidia control panel, it shows the changes I have made. however, CPU-Z shows the GPU clocks at what they were before I overclocked. And I havent done enough testing to know if theres any improvement. (the only game ive played, I changed literally every setting on at the same time I overclocked my GPU, so I cant tell if there is a performance change.) Anyone know whats up with that?
Also, regarding GPU overclocking: In the Nvidia control panel, it shows the changes I have made. however, CPU-Z shows the GPU clocks at what they were before I overclocked. And I havent done enough testing to know if theres any improvement. (the only game ive played, I changed literally every setting on at the same time I overclocked my GPU, so I cant tell if there is a performance change.) Anyone know whats up with that?
Kyosho
NOT KYO
Glad to hear you're having some luck with ME2! By the way, I just remembered something I had meant to bring up a few days back and totally forgot about it. If I recall, you are playing off of a save that is further in the game, from another computer? Back when Dragon Age came out, there were a few people on a forum I go to who had to reinstall the game for one reason or another (or just transferred saves to another computer). Anyway, I specifically remember people reporting performance issues when doing that. I have no idea why that would be. Perhaps the saves kept some sort of rendering data and kept trying to enforce it. Not sure. But if these people started an entirely new game on this other computer (or fresh install), the performance issues would no longer exist in this new save file.
Basically, try saves created on that computer specifically. Perhaps there are cheats (console commands maybe?) to put you further in the game so you don't have to replay it all to get to the point that the performance is supposed to get worse.
I realize Dragon Age is a very different game. But they're both Bioware. Who knows. It probably won't go anywhere, but it could be worth trying.
Basically, try saves created on that computer specifically. Perhaps there are cheats (console commands maybe?) to put you further in the game so you don't have to replay it all to get to the point that the performance is supposed to get worse.
I realize Dragon Age is a very different game. But they're both Bioware. Who knows. It probably won't go anywhere, but it could be worth trying.
XCVG
ModRetro Legend
Glad to hear ME2 is working. It's one of my favorite games too. How does Tali look on that PC and screen 
Anyway, as for thermal paste, you'll only gain MAYBE a few degrees, MAX. As long as you are using quality paste, it doesn't really matter what you are using. I hear even the cheap stuff works fine. That said, if you are trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of it, by all means go ahead. It might make a difference.
Anyway, as for thermal paste, you'll only gain MAYBE a few degrees, MAX. As long as you are using quality paste, it doesn't really matter what you are using. I hear even the cheap stuff works fine. That said, if you are trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of it, by all means go ahead. It might make a difference.
samjc3
#1 Female Member
Birthday Bumpdate:
ME2 is running really well. Ive moved from 640x480 up to 960x600, and I also finally transferred my saves. And, even playing as a vanguard (the biotic charge can even lag a 360) I get excellent framerates. Theres a few glitches onboard the Normandy, mostly having to do with not being able to interact with the door in the conference room, but I can get around that. Additionally, the loading times are the shortest ive ever seen for ME2. Ive played on both my other PC's, and both old and new 360's, and this little guy loads easily 3x faster. like, going to the captains cabin, the loading animation doesn't even start, before its done. And everywhere else is very fast as well.
I gave up on overclocking, for now. Everything disagrees about what clocks everything is at. With afterburner, the clock I set runs, until I start a 3D app, then the NVidia driver forces it to the NVidia 3D clock, which is lower. So the only thing that shows any improvement is kombuster. If anyone knows how to overclock a set preference (namely the "3D application" clock settings for the NVidia performance suite), I would love to know.
Battery has an expected delivery date between the 23rd of November and the 7th of December.
Should get some money from the few people in my family who know I exist, so I will be able to get a charger and protection circuit soon, I hope.
So, basically, all I still need is my case plastic, and a few bits and bobs. Then its just assembly. Which isnt gonna be the easiest part.
Also, where does TChay get his Micro micro fans? I can see myself using some of them.
ME2 is running really well. Ive moved from 640x480 up to 960x600, and I also finally transferred my saves. And, even playing as a vanguard (the biotic charge can even lag a 360) I get excellent framerates. Theres a few glitches onboard the Normandy, mostly having to do with not being able to interact with the door in the conference room, but I can get around that. Additionally, the loading times are the shortest ive ever seen for ME2. Ive played on both my other PC's, and both old and new 360's, and this little guy loads easily 3x faster. like, going to the captains cabin, the loading animation doesn't even start, before its done. And everywhere else is very fast as well.
I gave up on overclocking, for now. Everything disagrees about what clocks everything is at. With afterburner, the clock I set runs, until I start a 3D app, then the NVidia driver forces it to the NVidia 3D clock, which is lower. So the only thing that shows any improvement is kombuster. If anyone knows how to overclock a set preference (namely the "3D application" clock settings for the NVidia performance suite), I would love to know.
Battery has an expected delivery date between the 23rd of November and the 7th of December.
Should get some money from the few people in my family who know I exist, so I will be able to get a charger and protection circuit soon, I hope.
So, basically, all I still need is my case plastic, and a few bits and bobs. Then its just assembly. Which isnt gonna be the easiest part.
Also, where does TChay get his Micro micro fans? I can see myself using some of them.
samjc3
#1 Female Member
Config file tweaks and render parameter tweaks, running as "realtime" priority, shaving back more on what windows services are running, tweaked my touchscreen driver software, keyboard, and several other things to use less bandwidth, no cerberus network (actually blocked networking for the game period) and I set the priority for multicore rendering on Cores 1 and 2, because 3&4 dont actually, exist, and thus, cannot work. ME2 showed it was a 4 core machine, and had equal rendering on each core. I changed it to think its a two core machine, which it is. Accursed hyperthreading.XCVG said:
samjc3
#1 Female Member
I just did the one thing I hadnt tried for ME2. I deleted everything and reinstalled it. And it seems to have fixed all my issues. With no config tweaks or anything, its running better than it was. I would describe it as, "Nearly perfect." There can be some very very very slight framerate drops, but that is nothing to worry about. And even that is surprisingly rare.
Sam is spectacularly happy. Although she does feel kinda stupid for not doing this before, and instead chasing down some ridiculously odd tweaks.
Sam is spectacularly happy. Although she does feel kinda stupid for not doing this before, and instead chasing down some ridiculously odd tweaks.
Kyosho
NOT KYO
Ah, so you are actually female. I wasn't sure. I thought perhaps your custom title could've been an inside joke or something. Mystery solved!
Congrats on ME2. Some day I'll get around to playing that. Well, after I play the first one anyways. I'm a psycho for doing things in order. Hmm. Question: ME2 has pausable combat where you can give orders and whatnot, right? Or was that just the first one? The reason I ask is, how's it play with the touchscreen? Picking targets and whatnot with it as your "mouse"? That'd be interesting. It's one thing I look forward to trying with Dragon Age once I get mine put together (assuming my pitiful 9100M G will run it okay).
Congrats on ME2. Some day I'll get around to playing that. Well, after I play the first one anyways. I'm a psycho for doing things in order. Hmm. Question: ME2 has pausable combat where you can give orders and whatnot, right? Or was that just the first one? The reason I ask is, how's it play with the touchscreen? Picking targets and whatnot with it as your "mouse"? That'd be interesting. It's one thing I look forward to trying with Dragon Age once I get mine put together (assuming my pitiful 9100M G will run it okay).
samjc3
#1 Female Member
Its all good.Kyosho said:
And, as for playing ME2 with the touchscreen, the only thing I do with the touchscreen is bypass. Its much easier on the touchscreen. I really doubt you could do full control, because even with the paused selection of powers and such, you need to move and stuff outside of that.
Also, dont worry about your pitfall 9100m not playing DA:O. It will. The minimum specs want a 6600 Gt 128mb or greater. And I run it on high settings on mine. So you shant worry.
You know, its oddly entertaining. I know what I am, and thats good enough to me. And it should become obvious one of these days when I upload a video of this thing.Kyosho said:
Kyosho
NOT KYO
Dragon Age is weird about what it'll run on. I remember when it came out people having trouble getting it to run well on fairly new hardware, while others could play it flawlessly on a much less powerful system. Back when I first played it, I did so with my old video card, a 7900GS 256mb. It couldn't handle having the textures on full (or high, or whatever the max setting was) without significant framerate drops. The fact that you can play it on high with the ION, which hypothetically should be less powerful, is weird. But not out of the question for this game. I don't know why that is. Heh.
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