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jsl · 06-27-2002, 12:17 PM

I tried the demo version on my system at work (a 4 year old system now running Windows 2000). It worked great! I was excited to try it on my new home system (I just finished building it). It's an Asus A7V333 Athlon XP 2000+, Radion 8500-128meg, 1 gig of ram running Windows XP. I'm running the latest Catalyst drivers in the Radion. Needless to say I was really looking forward to seeing how well the fish demo would run on this system.

I fired it up and the fish only do maybe 3-4 frames per second (very jerky). Also, the bubbles have smeared themselves along their travel path. So you don't see a bunch of bubbles but rather a handful that look like they are traveling up splotchy straws. I tried various screen resolutions (no change). I read somewhere that lowering the color setting from 32 bits to 16 bits might help. No change. This wouldn't really be an option anyway since I do a lot of visual work and require a high color setting on my desktop. I searched around in this forum but didn't really see a solution. I haven't had any problems with other applications or a couple games on this system.

Does anyone have any idea what to do? I'm really disapointed. I was looking forward to running it on the Radion's second monitor while working! :^) I'm holding off buying it until I get this resolved. Thanks in advance for your help.

06-27-2002, 12:17 PM	#1
jsl Registered Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 5	Getting horrible frame rate and bubbles! I tried the demo version on my system at work (a 4 year old system now running Windows 2000). It worked great! I was excited to try it on my new home system (I just finished building it). It's an Asus A7V333 Athlon XP 2000+, Radion 8500-128meg, 1 gig of ram running Windows XP. I'm running the latest Catalyst drivers in the Radion. Needless to say I was really looking forward to seeing how well the fish demo would run on this system. I fired it up and the fish only do maybe 3-4 frames per second (very jerky). Also, the bubbles have smeared themselves along their travel path. So you don't see a bunch of bubbles but rather a handful that look like they are traveling up splotchy straws. I tried various screen resolutions (no change). I read somewhere that lowering the color setting from 32 bits to 16 bits might help. No change. This wouldn't really be an option anyway since I do a lot of visual work and require a high color setting on my desktop. I searched around in this forum but didn't really see a solution. I haven't had any problems with other applications or a couple games on this system. Does anyone have any idea what to do? I'm really disapointed. I was looking forward to running it on the Radion's second monitor while working! :^) I'm holding off buying it until I get this resolved. Thanks in advance for your help.