Where is the bottleneck?

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kiajoon

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Hello.

I am starting to play Loki/Titan Quest after Diablo 2 and do realise things have moved on a bit. Below are my specs:

Screen - HP W2207. 22 inch, 1680 x 1050.
CPU - Intel E4300 @ 2.0 ghz (Due to board limitations)
VGA - 7800GTX 512mb.
Board - ASUS P5V-VM DH (P4M890 Chipset)

I can see the screen flashing and jerking a litlle bit when things get complex. Also there seem to be a constant horizontal distortion lines banding down as I move the character. This happens even in the lowest mode of 640 x 480 with lowest settings. Where do you think it is the issue here? I tested it on a 15 TFT and it is the same. Slow chipset/CPU?

Thanks for any advice.
 
umm those specs* you listed are too good for titan quest, dunno about loki tho.
 
risqu3 said:
umm those specs* you listed are too good for titan quest, dunno about loki tho.
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Loki and Titan Quest are about the same in terms of graphics requirements as far as I can see from the details.
 
Those specs aren't bad, but I would have to say the bottleneck is the video card.
 
Well looks like it is time for me to get a 8800GT or a HD 4850. Please keep the suggestions coming.
 
tiger direct have a 8800gt for 120 bux at the moment saw it last night.. you might wanna look at that or spend a bit more on a 4850, the 4850 is better but just depends on your budget.
 
He's playing with a high-end card that is newer than the game. I doubt it's a bottleneck, ESPECIALLY at 640x480. Clearly there is another problem here.
 
Sounds like a driver issue, I had no problems playing titan quest on a 6800GT at 1280x1024, although it did get a bit choppy when there were lots of enemies on screen.
 
The problem is Titan Quest. The game just tends to run herky-jerky in some areas. Really, a fast HDD can solve this problem with TQ. With a slow drive, even my system in my sig ran it like shit until I got a modern HDD (my last one was a SCSI drive from '01). Getting a faster HDD and/or RAID setup will greatly reduce this problem with TQ.

Not sure about Loki though.
 
If you can get your CPU to 2.5GHz plus you will get more from an 8800GT or faster card.
A 2GHz chip will become the bottleneck.
 
The analysis so far. Some are suggestions and some are my own deductions

Unlikely :
Display - Tested on another 15 inch TFT at 640 x 480 to same results.
Memory - 2gb is adequate,
HDD - A 500gb Samsung F1 drive is adequate.

50/50
VGA card - 7800GTX is already too slow as suggested.
CPU - 2 ghz is not enough

Likely:
Driver - Needs to reinstall. As cheffy has suggested - 640 x 480 produces bad results onmy specs is not logical.

I will clear out the driver later after work and hope it works. Thanks a lot so far.
 
I doubt hardware not being fast enough is an issue here, sounds more like a bug or incompatability. I don't know these games, so I'm not sure how old they are, but it might be that compatability mode helps (right click the exe and go to the compatability tab and try setting an earlier operating system)


Also there seem to be a constant horizontal distortion lines banding down as I move the character.
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This sounds like tearing, you can make this go away by turning vsync on, if it's not an option in the video menu for the game you'll have to force it on through the drivers, if you have an Nvidia card you can create a game profile.
 
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