Slowdown?

[Ribbheden]

Hello, i have a big problem in my Gta San Andreas. Sometimes when I play it in some areas it becomes like slowmotions. Fps is good and are staying around 60-70 fps and are working fine. But When I enters some areas on the maps the game becomes slow like slowmotion and I have done everything to try to fix it but nothing works, Please if somebody know whats the problem is please help.

 

Specs.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+

2 Gig Ram

Geforce 8600 GTS OC 256 Mb

Windows Vista Ultimate

 

(Sorry my bad English)

[Girish]

Try lowering your display settings. Turn off anti-aliasing and reduce draw distance.

 

Edit: Do you have any mods installed?

[Ring_of_Fire]

I think your hard drive is bottlenecking your entire system. You might need to upgrade your hard drive to a WD Raptor X 10000RPM SATA hard drive for this reason.

 

Try to close down non-essential and running processing in the taskbar and in the system tray. Disable things like automatic-updating/scanning from your virus, firewall, and spyware programs. Defragmenting is an excellent idea as well.

 

 

Hello, i have a big problem in my Gta San Andreas. Sometimes when I play it in some areas it becomes like slowmotions

It happens to me as well and seeing as though you have a powerful system with 2GB of RAM, dual core CPU, and a GeForce 8 graphics card - it's probably your hard drive.

 

 

Hard drive recommendation - buy a 7200RPM hard drive with 16/32MB cache and SATA 3.0Gbps data transfer rate if you are not planning to go with a 10000RPM hard drive (I highly recommend it, though).

Edited December 22, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire

[Ribbheden]

ok, I dont have any mods installed and maybe it is my hdd but it is only wrong at san andreas :S my hdd is only 1 year old and are SATA 2 250 gig. maybe it is because my san andreas is downloaded by torrent.

 

but thanks for your help =)

[Ring_of_Fire]

I think it is how the game's engine was created. If you take a look at a game like 18 Wheels of Steel: Convoy, it iwas almost impossible to run that game smoothly no matter what system you have.

 

What could be a factor possibly is the CPU acting up when the game is giving the system a lot of work. I am thinking that it could be the amount of video memory that's on your graphics card (giving the hard drive stress in return). Try downloading the AMD Optimizer and the processor driver to see if it helps:

 

1. http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...ities/Setup.exe

2. http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_ty...ities/setup.zip

 

 

maybe it is because my san andreas is downloaded by torrent.

lol

 

Wait guy, are you sure it couldn't probably be a graphic problem? Download Fraps and tell me exactly WHERE you get the lag and HOW the scenery looks like. I think the CPU and GPU are perhaps struggling to render it properly. Also, ask yourself this question: what happens if I stay still without moving fast in a car? Also, what if I just look right down to the ground?

 

I noticed that I always get lag in Los Santos in some areas, even during cutscenes. I realized that the lag comes when it is either dawn or dusk, and not when it is actually very bright or very dark. I rarely get lag even when it is foggy.

Edited December 22, 2007 by Ring_of_Fire