GTA SA performance on 8600GT

Hi there

I have a zepto 6625WD with an 8600GT. I play mostly source games, a bit of UT3 and more recently GTA San Andreas. The thing is, while I get great performance on UT3 and Half life (pretty much max settings at 1680x1050) San Andreas performance seems sub par...I have to reduce the resolution to at most 1440x900, drop the draw distance a bit and reduce AA to get smooth framerates. I'd expect to max it out no problems as it doesn't look good enough to be that demanding imo.

I am using 169.2something drivers...i've heard these are optimised for crysis which I don't play. Is there another set of drivers I should install which are better for the games I am playing or is GTA just coded badly?

Thanks.

 

I can play GTA:SA on max settings on my Acer Aspire, so it may be your drivers.

 

With my 8600m I played the game at 1280 x 800 with everything max, including AA(3) and drawing distance, it runs between 18 - 25 fps (I have the frame limiter on) depending on the location. Mostly it runs at 25 fps after you visited the location, I am guessing that the game has to load the material which caused the initial lag which can drop fps to around 14 fps. According to my experience, your performance sounds about right.

 

ok thanks...I'm kinda surprised and slightly disappointed but I'll live with it

 

dont forget to disable the frame limiter. If you still get bad fps i would advise you to use low shadow settings, dunno the name of the setting anymore. Maybe it's called visual quality, but i'm not sure.

 

The game always seems to be loading so it is probably the hard drive speed that is slowing you down more than anything.

 

i had the same problem with 169.28 and 169.04, but using omega's 169.21's right now and it runs smooth on max settings. try changing ur drivers.