Best setting for an older PC?

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mancityheel

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I've got an older PC that barely passes the minimum requirements. I skipped PES6, but it ran PES 5 and earlier very smoothly.

It runs PES 2008 OK on low or medium detail smoothly, but slooowly. It's like all the players took a chill pill before kickoff and are just mellowing out.

Anyway, what's the best way to get it to run faster--settings, etc.? I'm not looking for perfection, just for it to run well enough to make it enjoyable to play.

thanks.
 
Go into settings and lower your resolution. I'm running it on medium very smoothly at 800x600 and I only have a Nvidia Geforce Go 128mb card.
 
mjsmith2k said:
Go into settings and lower your resolution. I'm running it on medium very smoothly at 800x600 and I only have a Nvidia Geforce Go 128mb card.
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what drivers have you downloaded? I have a Geforce FX5200 256mb, that barely runs 640x480 on medium, what other things have you changed?
 
I've got the Geforce FX5900 128mb. I've changed the settings on that to maximize performance, downloaded the most recent driver, set it to the minimum resolution, turned off v-sync. I don't know what to do about anti-aliasing etc.

The bottom line is at one point I had a config that had reasonable gameplay speed but the graphics were so bad it was unwatchable. What I have now, it looks quite good and plays okay but it's a bit too slow to be enjoyable. any further tips welcome...
 
mancityheel said:
I've got the Geforce FX5900 128mb. I've changed the settings on that to maximize performance, downloaded the most recent driver, set it to the minimum resolution, turned off v-sync. I don't know what to do about anti-aliasing etc.

The bottom line is at one point I had a config that had reasonable gameplay speed but the graphics were so bad it was unwatchable. What I have now, it looks quite good and plays okay but it's a bit too slow to be enjoyable. any further tips welcome...
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which are the latest drivers you have?
 
mancityheel said:
I've got the Geforce FX5900 128mb. I've changed the settings on that to maximize performance, downloaded the most recent driver, set it to the minimum resolution, turned off v-sync. I don't know what to do about anti-aliasing etc.

The bottom line is at one point I had a config that had reasonable gameplay speed but the graphics were so bad it was unwatchable. What I have now, it looks quite good and plays okay but it's a bit too slow to be enjoyable. any further tips welcome...
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I just used the drivers that came as standard with the laptop. I have it on medium setting resolution is 800x600. Frame-skipping and V-sync is on. Haven't used kitserver LOD mixer as I found this screwed up my settings.

One thing I did do as well was download the latest version of DirectX and it upgraded me to the latest version. It runs really smooth now.

Oh and I'm on Vista. So the myths about Vista being crap are a joke. I have a dual boot setup with Vista and XP running, and I think it actually runs better than on XP imo. XP is still a little jittery.
 
so let me re-state this: what is the best way, if you didn't care at all about graphics, to get the thing to run as fast as possible apart from

1--going to low
2--going to minimum resolution
3--turning NVIDIA setting to maximize performance

What else should be done with v-sync, sound, etc, etc to help speed things up?
 
mjsmith2k said:
I just used the drivers that came as standard with the laptop. I have it on medium setting resolution is 800x600. Frame-skipping and V-sync is on. Haven't used kitserver LOD mixer as I found this screwed up my settings.

One thing I did do as well was download the latest version of DirectX and it upgraded me to the latest version. It runs really smooth now.

Oh and I'm on Vista. So the myths about Vista being crap are a joke. I have a dual boot setup with Vista and XP running, and I think it actually runs better than on XP imo. XP is still a little jittery.
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do you think then I should uninstall all the drivers and just use the ones on the driver cd that came with the card?
 
Try just turning frame-skipping and v-sync on and see if that makes a difference. Otherwise you can try that, but backup the drivers so you can reinstall them, just in case nothing happens.
 
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