Need for Speed - Most Wanted Dramas

[congo]

I installed Need for Speed - Most Wanted, and it runs choppy as a Celeron with a TNT16 card in it, and then all of a sudden it kicks in with 100 fps and is perfect, drops back, kicks in..................

It's bloody aweful and I've been 3 days trying to sort it.

I've seen other guys with high end rigs with the same problem but no one has the answer that I've seen so far, just the

[ctjoyce]

What patch version are you useing? This same thing happened to me in the demo, but when I got the real game no problem whatsoever.

Cheers
Cameron

[congo]

It's patch 1.3, the only one so far?

[ctjoyce]

Hmmm. Okay, stupid question, but you defragmented after install right?

Cheers
Cameron

[congo]

Actually I don't think so, I'll do that now and see if that's the problem, thx.

[congo]

It turned out to be my MS FFB Sidewinder has a conflict with the game, I hope it can be sorted out, I can't imagine using another controller let alone having to go out and buy one.

The Sidewinder was working perfectly, but when I unplugged it in a last desperate attempt (after formatting and everything else I could try), the game ran flawlesly without the stick attached to the PC.

[ctjoyce]

I personally use my keyboard to race, but too bad on that. However if you have an old Play Station controoler lying around than you can sever the end of that and the end of an old USB cable and then sodder the colored cables. The only thing you will find is that the PS controoler has one extra cable and that is for the rumble pack, so dont worry bout that.

Cheers
Cameron

[NicksFXHouse]

It turned out to be my MS FFB Sidewinder has a conflict with the game, I hope it can be sorted out, I can't imagine using another controller let alone having to go out and buy one.

The Sidewinder was working perfectly, but when I unplugged it in a last desperate attempt (after formatting and everything else I could try), the game ran flawlesly without the stick attached to the PC.

Is that stick USB and if so is it connected directly to the PC?

If both are "yes", it is possible a powered hub might fix the problem.

[congo]

Thanks guys.

I dug an old Logitech Rumblepad out of the closet, repaired it and it's fine, but the software doesn't allow me to calibrate it, so I had to uninstall it.

Now I must calibrate the logitech after every boot, the settings don't stick.