problems in STALKER.

IModIntel · September 17th, 2007, 09:52 PM

Hi everyone!

My dad recently bought a PCI-E skt 939 motherboard with an ATI HD2600Pro. Previously it was AGP motherboard with ASUS N6600GT. (see config in signature for details)

I installed the ATI Catalyst 7.9 Drivers on the card. But in STALKER, i get random lockups in the game, at irregular intervals. This also happened with the previous config he had with NGO Nvidia Drivers.

Any ideas would help.

blindartist · September 17th, 2007, 10:00 PM

It could be a background process, an antivrius or anti spyware, or even if you dont have one running they typically like to have background processes that run anyways, also if you have nero instealled on that system theres a nbbackground serives and a nbindex service that runs which causes frequent lockups, id say take a look through your serives, theres alot that can be disable that dont need to run and only sap resources.

Also stalker is very poorly coded, its always had lag issues so could be just that, but take a romp through the processes, try turning off ones that dont need to be there and give it a go.

IModIntel · September 17th, 2007, 10:03 PM

But it ONLY happens with STALKER, which is why i don't think its that, besides almost nothing is running in background.

gen.Rage1991hrv · September 17th, 2007, 10:09 PM

i havent play stalker in long time but if i recall main problem was shader level
it automaticly sets up to 2a but if you change it it will run ok (to 2 or 1)
anyway dl latest patch for stalker it have many fixes

blindartist · September 17th, 2007, 10:10 PM

It could just be the game, stalker is pretty system intensive, like i said the engine wasnt built all that well, it doesnt make the best use of resources, i have the same cpu and have noticed simmilar random bits of lag, if you havent already done so, try updating to the latest version, i think its 1.004, but other then that theres not much you can do asside from turning down some of the ingame settings. As a comparison ive got Bioshock on here right now running perfectly smooth at max settings but stalker gets that random bit of lag you speak of at max settings.

IModIntel · September 17th, 2007, 10:11 PM

This is WITH latest patch, settings are at :

1024x768
2x Anti aliasing
Object dynamic lighting
the rest is all maxed out

IModIntel · September 17th, 2007, 10:13 PM

Also, i doubt it's CPU. Because on my P4 3ghz machine i have NO problems whatsoever.

And i seriously doubt that a p4 3ghz is better then a AMD 3200+

gen.Rage1991hrv · September 17th, 2007, 10:19 PM

You need to modify the "user.ltx" file located on your C:/documents and settings/All Users/Documents/Stalker SHOC/ folder. Open it with Notepad, find the line that says "render render_2 (or 2a)" and change it to "render render_1"

Save changes and start the game

p.s.add this i think your father is going to like it
http://www.ngohq.com/47116-post43.html

IModIntel · September 17th, 2007, 10:28 PM

But that won't change any quality settings, right?

gen.Rage1991hrv · September 17th, 2007, 10:32 PM

yes it will
it will force dx8 in the game but it will rise performance