I'm running ME, not XP, but I'll check on the system restore feature.
Now that you mention it, I may have left it enabled.
I do have a fixed swap file size, almost the same as yours.
I have switched to OpenGL and the problem went away, although I do
acknowledge that there's still an underlying problem somewhere. Maybe
drivers - I've since heard that the 23.11 drivers could have issues.
Thanks for your suggestions, Bert.
By the way, my post took six days to show up. I thought it was lost.
Stupid Roadrunner.
wrotd:
>Two possibilities come to mind --
>It sounds to me that your system may be writing to disk during these
>episodes.
>1. Are you using Windows XP? If so, alhtough you stated that you have
>almost nothing running in the background, are you sure that you have
>disabled the system recovery feature (or whatever it's called)? and/or,
>2. Are you allowing Windows to control the size of your swap file? If
>so, change the setting to a fixed size swap file. I also have 512 Megs of
>Ram on my system. I set my swap file size to 1024 Megs (1 Gig). I belive
>that it should ideally be 3 times your Ram, but I didn't want to set aside
>that much space. To do this, right-click on My Computer; Click on
>Properties; Click on Virtual Memory and change the settings so the minimum
>value is the same as the maximum value.
>I'm no expert on this, but these things might help.....
>Bert
>> Just wondering if anyone else has seen their good framerate slow to a
>> crawl during a race.
>> For example, last night I was online with the graphics options turned
>> up pretty high and maintaining 30-35 fps. All of a sudden, the
>> framerate drops to a single digit slideshow and I can't control the
>> car. I tried it again after dropping to 1024x768x32 getting 65 fps.
>> After about 20 laps, slideshow again and 10-13fps. It only lasts for
>> a few seconds.
>> I don't have anything running in the background except Game Commander.
>> I just upgraded my video card but it happened on my old card as well.
>> It happens online or offline.
>> It doesn't happen to any other games, including N4.
>> Again, just wondering if anyone else has seen this and/or has any
>> suggestions.
>> My next steps are: 1) unload game commander. 2) Upgrade drivers. 3)
>> Try opengl
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mike Z
>> One year old trouble free system:
>> AMD Athlon T-bird 1100
>> Abit KT7A-Raid Motherboard
>> 512 MB Memory
>> Xtasy Geforce 3 Ti200 (23.11 drivers)
>> Soundblaster Live
>> SMC Ethernet card for cable modem
