Stuttering Problems

jones

I've a fairly good system - Pentium 4, 3.4GHz, 1 GIG RAM with a 9800XT 256mb graphics card and my pc can run every game from FEAR to farcry & half life 2 perfectly but stutters A LOT in Call of Duty 2. I have not tried using the DirectX7 drivers yet because I wanted the graphics to look good their sweet best! I have only been messing around for ten minutes or so with it but it is fairly unplayable the way it is now! Should I just switch to Directx7 or is there some tweak for directx 9 to sort my system out?

I heard something about the game being geared towards multi gpu as opposed to singular gpu's

Steffano2002

Hi Jones,

Try this and see if it helps: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=59144#

jones

Thanks buddy i'll have a look at it now

jones

i presum these tweaks can be used on ATI cards aswell?? i'll have to have a good aul tinker with it tonight! where do you input these changes i.e. r_gpusync to 0 is it in the in-game console? or some .ini file?

Steffano2002

jones wrote:

i presum these tweaks can be used on ATI cards aswell?? i'll have to have a good aul tinker with it tonight! where do you input these changes i.e. r_gpusync to 0 is it in the in-game console? or some .ini file?

I think you're better off making these changes directly in your cfg...

jones

Pardon my ignorance but whats the cfg??

Steffano2002

Sorry Jones, what I call "cfg" is your Config. file located in the Main CoD folder. You can open this file with Notepad and modify all the values manually (i.e. r_picmip = 2; r_picmips = 0; etc). Hope this helps

jones

ah cheers yeah i get you now! i couldnt find the config file last night although i looked for about 30 seconds...i'll give it a shot tonight

Steffano2002

I'll give you the exact path and name of the cfg this evening when I get home Jones

jones

Nice one for the help! i'll ahve a propper go at it tonight didnt have time last night dying to get into the game!!!

Steffano2002

Here's the exact path to your cfg file (if you haven't changed the standard installation path):

C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 2\main\players\[player_name]\config_mp.cfg

Rename the file "config_mp.txt" or "config_mp.doc" if you have word and knock yourself out!

jones

i did all that and i got a minor increase in FPS but oddly enough when i set it to direct x7 and then back to direct X9 its running a lot better!! practically no lag YAY!!

thanks for all the help anyway

Steffano2002

Glad to hear you found a way to make it better!