EQPN + WinXP

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Iosif
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Post by Iosif » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:54 am

ATI makes good cards but their driver and game support leaves something to be desired...

I would put my money on the ATI Card as being the issue... The Mobile cards are normly really wound down versions of the parent cards to cut down on the heat.

Just went 3 rounds with my Moms computer... Under the driver list i had to download 3 diff drivers all said thay were for her card but each driver said it didnt detect the card... finely i got it all installed but to much work...

Persoanly i'll never own an ATI card...

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Post by zara » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:10 am

my bard will zoom for 2 seconds, then crawl at a walk for 10, then zoom again
I had the same issue on my laptop. Its an Avertec 5400 ( a peice of crap ).

I tried everything. All old models. Clipping plan. anything i could think of to no avail. Finnally just out of sheer dumb luck i fixed it , sort of.

I have no Sky. Soon as I turned the Sky completely off the laptop runs flawlessly.

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Post by Weatherwax » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:58 pm

Well.

NTFS failed on me. Long story, but it's possible to get it into an unrecoverable state, apparently, perhaps after working with several multi-gigabyte zip files. So I ended up being forced to re-install XP. This time Windows update took me to SP2, of course.

Right back into the slow animation problem. Worse than ever, now, it doesn't need EQPN or WinEQ at all. Straight EQ exhibits the problem, in windowed or full screen.

I tried updating graphic driver, audio drivers etc., to no avail. Finally I figured I'd come back to this thread and see what I may have forgotten. I read "Impure Torment"'s comment about power saving features, so I turned off all power save features.

Lo and behold, I'm now skipping through PoK at bard speed.

So if you have an IBM thinkpad, and possibly other notebooks, turn off power saving.

Maybe when I have more time I'll try to figure out which options cause the problem.

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Post by rcw3 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:35 pm

Any luck Weatherwax? When it was working fine for those two weeks, were you using EQPlayNice?

I have been running WinEQ without EQPN for a month or so and it seemed fine. Then I noticed the slowdown started happening to me on certain occassions(w/o running EQPN). Today it happened while I was running a single window. I've three-boxed with no problems. It works fines sometimes - and exhibits the weird sluggishness at others. Very odd.

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Post by rcw3 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:38 pm

I just read your last message about power saving mode. Where did you change this? I thought I had already checked that in the BIOS and in Windows XP.

Oh... my T42p has the Fire OpenGL version of the ATI Radeon 9700 w/128mb RAM.

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Post by Lax » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:11 pm

Try in the Power Options control panel

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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow...

Not to bump an old thread...

Post by SimpleMynd » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:39 am

But both I and a buddy use T40 laptops and had the wonderful "surging" of speed. What worked for us was downloading a utility that forces some setting in the CPU throttling that XP won't let you mess with.

http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html

Other info on SpeedStep:
http://www.bay-wolf.com/speedstep.htm

Further readings from the Sony boards:
http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/boa ... redir=true
http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/boa ... redir=true

Hope this helps some of you...

-SimeplMynd

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