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framerate is proportional to game speed

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:44 pm
by DrJaul
i recently had to upgrade my comp to a socket am2 system i have 2 gigs of ddr2 ram and dual sli-ed 8400 gs gpus. (i dont mean to brag...this is purely in the interest of seeing if the hardware is causing the problem)

so halo, in theory at least, should run like a charm. but, not so much sadly. i do get ridiculous frame rates but my problem is the game speed is directly proportional to the framerate. meaning that when i get 100 frames per second, the game looks like it is being fast fowarded in a vcr minus the high pitched squeeky audio. btw the audio is perfectly normal it just lags really far behind. so my question to you is is it a driver problem? a hardware problem? or is something screwy with my game? i did recently reinstall it, and that didnt help

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:53 am
by Cryticfarm
I think it's drivers, have you tried updating to the latest?

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:35 am
by warlord
The nvidia 8400GS cards are not SLI compatible contrary to popular belief.
I know this due to having read a lot of topics debating the issue.

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Product  	  Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS
Chipset 	Geforce 8400 GS
Memory 	256MB GDDR2
Core Frequency 	450MHz
Memory Frequency 	800MHz
RAMDAC 	400MHZ
Interface 	PCI-Express
Memory Bus 	64-bit
Stream Processors 	16
Max. Resolution 	2560 x 1600
SLI Ready 	No
Output 	1. Single-Link DVI
2. S video composite

Re: framerate is proportional to game speed

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:19 am
by Patrickssj6
DrJaul wrote:i recently had to upgrade my comp to a socket am2 system i have 2 gigs of ddr2 ram and dual sli-ed 8400 gs gpus. (i dont mean to brag...this is purely in the interest of seeing if the hardware is causing the problem)

so halo, in theory at least, should run like a charm. but, not so much sadly. i do get ridiculous frame rates but my problem is the game speed is directly proportional to the framerate. meaning that when i get 100 frames per second, the game looks like it is being fast fowarded in a vcr minus the high pitched squeeky audio. btw the audio is perfectly normal it just lags really far behind. so my question to you is is it a driver problem? a hardware problem? or is something screwy with my game? i did recently reinstall it, and that didnt help
You can force vertical sync with the Nvidia panel. That should fix what you call "tearing".
http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=73627

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:30 am
by DrJaul
tiger direct says so so maybe they have come out with one.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... =P450-8408

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:05 pm
by DrJaul
thanks for that link Patrickssj6
that fixed everything