TritonBill Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I have an AMD 64bit 3500 Processor with 2 gig ram and a Geforce 7800 GTX card. I bought the retail version of GRAW last night and had problems when trying to run TeamSpeak 2 at the same time for voice. I had about 41 processes running in Task Manager but my system was 99% idle before starting the game. After starting the GRAW game my system was using 98-99% CPU the entire time. This basically didn't allow any other processes like TS2 to run correctly I think. Any ideas? I'd start killing processes but NONE of them were taking up any CPU time so I'm not sure that would help. Also I noticed that when in the multiplayer screen at times I'd click JOIN on a server and nothing would happen. Anybody else have that problem? Thanks, TritonBill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeLocityChaos Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Its not your CPU. Everyone is having this problem. I think it is soundcard related. See Here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roceh Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I've had the join button problem, just keep spam clicking it until you join. With the CPU max out, i assume your using the latest nvidia beta drivers. I've had loads of issues with EAX sound maxing out my PC, try disabling EAX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaronson Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 No i'd say it's more or less the MP in this game chewing up so much upload bandwidth you are simply losing packets to and from teamspeak. You get the same effect while trying to use teamspeak while uploading files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB Crush Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Haven't had this problem yet, but I haven't toyed with MP all<i>that</i> much. I'm also running a similar config (A64, 7800GTX, but onlny 1 GB of RAM). Of course, if it's bandwidth related, we may be seeing the biggest difference there. Gotta ask, what type of MP games are you trying? just domination? just coop? do you have problems with both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangbang Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 (edited) ye i got this problem, but i used my head and started teamspeak before i started graw Also when u couldnt join a server, i think thats cause the host disconnected the server but it still appears in the list. Edited May 5, 2006 by pangbang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TritonBill Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 (edited) I have an AMD 64bit 3500 Processor with 2 gig ram and a Geforce 7800 GTX card.  I bought the retail version of GRAW last night and had problems when trying to run TeamSpeak 2 at the same time for voice. I had about 41 processes running in Task Manager but my system was 99% idle before starting the game. After starting the GRAW game my system was using 98-99% CPU the entire time.  This basically didn't allow any other processes like TS2 to run correctly I think. Any ideas? I'd start killing processes but NONE of them were taking up any CPU time so I'm not sure that would help. Also I noticed that when in the multiplayer screen at times I'd click JOIN on a server and nothing would happen. Anybody else have that problem? Thanks, TritonBill ← I forgot to mention that I have a Sound Blaster X-FI sound card. I'm using the latest drivers from Nvidia 84.21 maybe? I don't think they are beta though. I also have started TS2 before starting the game. Edited May 5, 2006 by TritonBill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBA_Bludawg Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 we have a guy that cant use ventrilo with GRAW. kicks him everytime from vent. but the game plays fine just no comms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangbang Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 hmm ok, i just tried it, its nothing to do with sound, i disabled EAX, i tried software based sound instead of hardware, its not to do with sound. So i thought it might be the video in the menu that is causing it, which infact it isnt. Next ill try graphics, doubt its that, maybe its just the engine, and grin need to patch it for it to be normal, like in css. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SillyHalfMexican Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 (edited) Yep, I've noticed that TS2 doesn't work well when GR:AW is loaded. I was sounding just fine, having long conversations with some people, and then when I loaded up GR:AW to play some Co-Op with a buddy, he would say that my voice was choppy and screwing up. I was at the weapons load out screen when he first noticed it, didn't help when I was in the actual game either lol... Once I got out, no complaints. gg graw. ;P Specs: AMD 3500+ (2.2 GHz) DFI LanParty Ultra-D ATi Sapphire x1900XTX OCZ 520w PowerStream 2GB Corsair XMS Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic 2x74GB Raptors (Raid0) Edited May 5, 2006 by SillyHalfMexican Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangbang Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 k just played with video settings, i dont think its that, its either the game itself, or its a driver related problem, other than that i have no idea, you will have to wait till GRIN come on, or maybe someone could try some driver versions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai-San Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I think you will find it IS soundcard related. Basically I was helping a friend yesterday and he had exactly the same problem, really choppy TS. I noticed that the only two options he had under sound renderer were Generic Hardware and Generic Software. Mine actually lists my soundcard (SB Audigy 4) I got him to update his drivers from the creative site, rebooted the game and he had his soundcard listed (SB Audigy 2). No choppy TS, cured. This seems to be quite a common problem for some reason, basically you SHOULD see your soundcard listed in-game in the sound options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 (edited) Kill every system process you can. You don't even need 20 of them. Just go through and kill as many as you can. Kill Explorer, even. Then use task manager with "New Task" to start GRAW, Teamspeak, and TSO if you need to. I'm running an AMD 3000+ with 1.5GB of RAM and (Single Player, anyway...) I don't have this problem. The only ones you don't want to kill are svchost, and the ones you can't kill. I made an image of what's needed to run your system. The items in black are items I did not kill (as I am not currently am not playing GRAW and like my music while working on things and posting..) but you should kill before playing. The items in red are ones the you SHOULD NOT (or cannot) kill. Feel free to experiment. There may be some things that you should not kill, the worst that can happen is you have to restart your computer. The best that can happen is TS works! EDIT: hmm... it could be soundcard related... I don't know. I have an AC'97, though, and I don't have any problems. Edited May 5, 2006 by Cookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaver Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Just updated my Audigy2 ZS drivers to the latest from Auto-Update - I can now see the sound card selectable in the AUDIO tab, but the game still max's the CPU at 90-100%. If you ask me, the engine needs some major fixes to run this bad. I notice the game is 1.02, the demo was 1.04 (didnt have any issues with the demo that I remember) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonedecker Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Just updated my Audigy2 ZS drivers to the latest from Auto-Update - I can now see the sound card selectable in the AUDIO tab, but the game still max's the CPU at 90-100%. If you ask me, the engine needs some major fixes to run this bad. I notice the game is 1.02, the demo was 1.04 (didnt have any issues with the demo that I remember) ← If you tried all thoswe things and the CPU is still pegged then it's the game, which isn't surprising. This game seems to tax every single system in the computer so unless you have driver issues, which it sounds like you do not, then the game would need to be optimized somehow to reduce the cpu usage. I imagine that is going to be pretty difficult as I mentioned everything is being taxed. Havok uses a ton of CPU for regular physics, but even more so if they are using it to drive thier character animation as well. -John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TritonBill Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 Kill every system process you can. You don't even need 20 of them. Just go through and kill as many as you can. Kill Explorer, even. Then use task manager with "New Task" to start GRAW, Teamspeak, and TSO if you need to. I'm running an AMD 3000+ with 1.5GB of RAM and (Single Player, anyway...) I don't have this problem. The only ones you don't want to kill are svchost, and the ones you can't kill. I made an image of what's needed to run your system. The items in black are items I did not kill (as I am not currently am not playing GRAW and like my music while working on things and posting..) but you should kill before playing. The items in red are ones the you SHOULD NOT (or cannot) kill. Feel free to experiment. There may be some things that you should not kill, the worst that can happen is you have to restart your computer. The best that can happen is TS works! EDIT: hmm... it could be soundcard related... I don't know. I have an AC'97, though, and I don't have any problems. ← Cookie, Good idea, I'll look at your list and try killing some of mine. My Soundblaster X-FI is also identified in the game so I think I'm ok there. I think we are going to find that there are a few problems and maybe a patch down the road will fix. I think its a pretty fun game though even without being able to use comms. I'm coming from the BF2 game so I gotta learn not to run and gun so much! Thanks all for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT.INSTG8R Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 (edited) Well I know this wouldnt help Single Core users out but GRIN might consider making it Dual Core compatible to perhaps balance the load some. I know with my P4 E with HT It is using only 50-60% of one thread and the other is lying there like a dead worm. Now of course I would agree the game does need some optimizations and Im sure they will do some. Edited May 5, 2006 by LT.INSTG8R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TritonBill Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 Well I know this wouldnt help Single Core users out but GRIN might consider making it Dual Core compatible to perhaps balance the load some. I know with my P4 E with HT It is using only 50-60% of one thread and the other is lying there like a dead worm. Now of course I would agree the game does need some optimizations and Im sure they will do some. ← Good point, someone mentioned to me maybe I should by a dual core processor. So are you saying that TS2 and GRAW wouldn't necessarily benefit from a dual core? I'd hate to spend the money just to find out it made no difference and didn't balance out the load on both processors?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsonedecker Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Well I know this wouldnt help Single Core users out but GRIN might consider making it Dual Core compatible to perhaps balance the load some. I know with my P4 E with HT It is using only 50-60% of one thread and the other is lying there like a dead worm. Now of course I would agree the game does need some optimizations and Im sure they will do some. ← Good point, someone mentioned to me maybe I should by a dual core processor. So are you saying that TS2 and GRAW wouldn't necessarily benefit from a dual core? I'd hate to spend the money just to find out it made no difference and didn't balance out the load on both processors?? ← Dual Core is great and all, but the app needs to specifically support it and I have no idea if GRAW does. Havok does, but GRIN would have had to specifically license that version for it to work. If GRAW is not Dual aware, then the second core would oofload some OS stuff and most likely any secondary apps like TS running just because XP is multi-threaded and can generally police itself. As for HT.... it is a bit of an oddity in that intel bills it as a second processor of sorts and it uses "unused" threads and cycles in the cpu, but is is far from efficient enough to actually fill up all those unused threads/cycles. Out of order execution that modern cpu's do, still has waste.... especially in games. That second thread you are seeing as idle is most likely idle becuase the entire processor is fully saturated by the game therefore there is nothing to report being done. ot sure if that last bit made sense, but basically XP reports 2 threads, but that doesn't mean the cpu actually has 2 threads available. -John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossiski Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Well I know this wouldnt help Single Core users out but GRIN might consider making it Dual Core compatible to perhaps balance the load some. I know with my P4 E with HT It is using only 50-60% of one thread and the other is lying there like a dead worm. Now of course I would agree the game does need some optimizations and Im sure they will do some. ← Good point, someone mentioned to me maybe I should by a dual core processor. So are you saying that TS2 and GRAW wouldn't necessarily benefit from a dual core? I'd hate to spend the money just to find out it made no difference and didn't balance out the load on both processors?? ← You could run your Teamspeak or other comms on one other CPU while GRAW maxes out the other. Of course, if the engine needs optimization, that may end up being better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangovictor Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I have an AMD 64bit 3500 Processor with 2 gig ram and a Geforce 7800 GTX card. I bought the retail version of GRAW last night and had problems when trying to run TeamSpeak 2 at the same time for voice. I had about 41 processes running in Task Manager but my system was 99% idle before starting the game. After starting the GRAW game my system was using 98-99% CPU the entire time. This basically didn't allow any other processes like TS2 to run correctly I think. Any ideas? I'd start killing processes but NONE of them were taking up any CPU time so I'm not sure that would help. Also I noticed that when in the multiplayer screen at times I'd click JOIN on a server and nothing would happen. Anybody else have that problem? Thanks, TritonBill ← more evidence this game has a very short half life for ladder play... given MP ladders need comm software to run in the background. nice design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlookian Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I don't see antivirus/ firewall on your processes list................... Do you really connect to the net without a rubber? But then I don't have a dedicated gaming PC I find 'End it all' works for killing unwanted apps (it automatically leaves the useful stuff alone) Sorry, just trying to help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V00D00 Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 (edited) I think you will find it IS soundcard related. Basically I was helping a friend yesterday and he had exactly the same problem, really choppy TS. I noticed that the only two options he had under sound renderer were Generic Hardware and Generic Software. Mine actually lists my soundcard (SB Audigy 4) I got him to update his drivers from the creative site, rebooted the game and he had his soundcard listed (SB Audigy 2). No choppy TS, cured. This seems to be quite a common problem for some reason, basically you SHOULD see your soundcard listed in-game in the sound options. My system: WinXP Pro SP 2 AMD 64 3200+ MSI KN8 Diamond motherboard w/Sound Blaster Live 24 bit "chip" 2x BFG PCI Express Nvidia GForce 7800GTX OC in SLI mode Corrsair Memory TWINX-3200C2PRO DDR400 4x512mb= 2048MB 2x WD Raptor 36GB=72GB @ 10,000 RPM and 8MB Cache Raid`0 Custom Thermaltake Xaser III Lanfire Series Case in "Ice Blue" SliverStone 650w power supply AT&T DSL @ 6 megabits per second (really around 4.9 is what I get) I just updated my sound "chip" as my motherboard has the Sound Blaster Live 24 bit "chip" on it. so I don't need a card. I rebooted GR3 and still not listed and says Generic Hardware , can I manually add my sound blaster chip thru the XML settings and how should it be listed? (wrote out) Thanks for all the support Edited May 10, 2006 by V00D00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZlutaN Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 Me and 2 other ppl I personally knows has the the same issues as the topic-starter (Retail GRAW) and we all have AMD64 cpu with nF4-chipset. The sound gets choppy and have long delays(up to a minute sometimes) in the game. If I go to desktop it takes very long time get any respond and I cant start vent or TS. If I started the coms before I launch the game it usually crasches But if I use an image-file to play the game (yes I have it so I can PLAY the game) I can go to desktop in an instant without any delays , the sounds is on high and EAX on and I have no delays what so ever , I can start vent or TS with no problem at all and even during a gameplay I can start the coms , I can even start other programs and couple of FF and the game runs a smooth and nice. So what makes the retail DVD impossible to use? Please please help me or us _______________________ AMD3500(venice) 2 GB RAM (2-2-2-7) Asus 6600 GT top 128 (oc) NEC DVD-R 3520A Raptor 74GB Audigy 2 ZS 100/10 Mb LAN (BBB) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT.INSTG8R Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 Im thinking this may be less to do with soundcards as much as it has to do with GRAW running itself at High Priority and hogging all the CPU cycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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