XxxFrancisxxxUSA Ive got a 5600 128mb as well, is there anythin i should be lookin at, ive got the game running on half low half medium settings on 1024*768? -------------------- Asus P4P800S mb P4 2.4Ghz (800Mhz) 1Gb DDR3200 Ram Asus Geforce FX 5600 128mb

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Well.... let me check. I'll go into bios and come rrrrrrrrright back. I forgot what I did... lol.

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Ok. here's what I did... Go into DRAM timings. BURST LENGTH = 8QW (default is 4 on my mobo) 1T COMMAND ENABLED (default disabled) FAST COMMAND set to FAST (turbo failed 4 me) R2R TURNAROUND ENABLED (default disabled) THEN in AGP settings FastWrites ENABLED read w/s disabled write w/1 disabled synchronise also disabled. My machine percked up in general when I did all of this to the memory. The agp stuff I just did as an experiment to see difference. Not sure if that better or not, but memory stuff DEFINITELY makes things faster, as advised in the manual, all settings are set to faster than the default.

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FYI I am on an Athlon 2500 333bus, 512 meg pc2700 and same card of course. Also drive is a raid 2+0 stripe. Anyhow. It runs pretty near perfect with everything but one setting on highest at 1024x768. Gets a little jerky from time to time. Oh, and also, before you load, shut down EVERY program you have running. None of that AIM or netmeeting crap running in the background. Works a treat for NFS underground too (well the demo anyway). I'm not tight, just wait for the prices to drop from $40 to $20 :-)

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I can run on high settings at 1024 x 768 on a 2400+, 3 year old motherboard and 512Mb pc133 ram with an overclocked 9600se. I do get an occasional hiccup when firing a weapon but that's all. FC wants to run on all medium settings and game play is glitch free there...just less eye candy. I also think it's time to make sure nothing is running in the background while you play the game. Skip

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I found a link to this website http://www.tweakguides.com/ and followed a bit of there advice and it speeded things up. XxxFrancisxxxUSA NFS is now available on cheap on EA Classics range (here in uk anyway)dont have any problems running that on full whack

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XxxFrancisxxxUSA what motherboard do you have? I don't have any of the same commands listed on my Asus motherboard BIOS. Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AMD Barton 2800 Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe 512 DDRAM PC2700

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I have an MSI board. DO you have no option for dram timings? NFS is $20 here now (about 12 quid) in Elec Boutique. But I am sure it is cheaper elsewhere.

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Im the same as Stu, my mb has nothing like what u said. -------------------- Asus P4P800S mb P4 2.4Ghz (800Mhz) 1Gb DDR3200 Ram Asus Geforce FX 5600 128mb

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This is what I can see in my ASUS Rev 1011 Bios: SDRAM Active Purcharge Delay: 7 SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay: 3 SDRAM RAS Purcharge Delay: 3 SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T Can you make heads or tails of that? Plus does anything need to be changed? Cheers for the help. Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AMD Barton 2800 Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe 512 DDRAM PC2700

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CAS latency is basically your ram's speed. You could try and change it, but I believe will make your system unstable. On RAS to CAS read this... http://hardwarehell.com/articles/ras_cas.htm

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I need another stick of 512mb 333mhz. I reckon that would seped the game up. Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AMD Barton 2800 Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe 512 DDRAM PC2700

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