samoggi Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I've been hearing the Choppiness on the 2005 PC version is still there. Can someone confirm if this is true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cable901 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I can't tell if it's just my machine or what, but my game is extremely choppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kccitystar Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 enable vsync....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cable901 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsepower Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Wow. If the choppiness is back then I have totally lost my faith in EA. Last year's game was pretty good but the choppiness destroyed it for so many of us. Setting the monitor refresh rate to 60 hz did help but the game was still too choppy. That means that the core code of the game was not updated or improved. I think that $30 for window dressing is bad for business. I am having my wife pick up a copy of both the PC and Xbox versions so that I can have at least one that plays decently. Man, this will be a HUGE disappointment if the graphical problems are back. I hope it gets resolved - before I get home tonight. HP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cable901 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Does enabling vsync improve choppiness or what? As of now, the choppiness is so bad I'm tempted to go back to playing 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 In some cases, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitoon Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I was able to fix the choppiness in MVP 2004 on MY MACHINE (Nvidia Graphics Card) by enabling 2XQ anti-aliasing...don't know if that will help anyone else, but it worked for me with last year's version :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 This is so upsetting. I havent recieved mine yet, but now Im not looking forward to it. For those who own the PC version, what Choppiness are you experiencing and what systems do you have? V Sync SHOULD be turned on of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco74 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I don't have the game yet but whats strange is that last years game was unbearably choppy - but it was fixed pretty well with the patch... so are we going backwords...????? since choppiness is such an individual thing its really hard to tell unless you play on your machine- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 From what I hear, it doesent sound (or look) good. Stuttering in the infield seems to be the main issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsepower Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 This is making me sick to my stomach. I have been a PC gamer for 20 years and have never been so disappointed as I was last year with MVP. I love baseball and have played thousands of PC baseball games - from Earl Weaver to Triple play to all of the High Heat games. MVP 2003 was a good game - just on the cusp of being great (except for the inability to control jump and dive for your fielders). 2004 took a major step forward in terms of gameplay but the graphical stuttering killed it. I really thought that this year's game would solve that issue and we would have a game we could all enjoy. I hope I wasn't wrong. Since I don't have it yet and have not played it I can't say whether or not the choppiness is there. But just talking about it brings back bad memories. :twisted: :evil: HP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dupontflames Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 '04 ran like a dream on my machine and i play lots of graphics intensive games that look fine, but this game runs like absolute crap. i tried turning on, off, and adjusting all the graphical variables in the game and the thing that seemed to effect the fps the most, strangely enough, was the crowd. when i disabled them it played alright. also, i'm having trouble mapping the buttons to the right pitches. last year it was fine, but this time it never throws the pitch that corresponds to the button i'm pressing. this is frustating. :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezdriver Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Please correct me on this if I am wrong. Let's say I want to play the game at 1280x1024 res, and I enable vsync within the game. In order to have vsync actually working at the proper MVP level (and I think I have heard 60Hz), I would also have to go to my video cards display properties and set vsync for the 1280 res at 60Hz. That would mean that any and everything that I set at that resolution would also be viewed at 60Hz (desktop, other games, etc.). Am I correct on that one? ez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDiddy Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I had chopiness in 2003, but that was easy to fix. 2004 was just fine for me. I'm not worried about 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Its funny because MVP 2003 was widely known to be the smoothest PC wise. They changed something since then. I think it has to do with one's monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsepower Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 A lot of the trouble with MVP 2004 was the difference between choppiness and stuttering. When I played the game, it wasn't a graphical slow-down (e.g., choppiness due to framerate issues). Rather, it was a stuterring of the screen - like a freaking earthquake. The ball would ghost and I would get two or three balls. I have a great system and play Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and Far Cry all the time at 1600 x 1200 maxed. I have nothing wrong with my system. EA acknowleged this problem last year and made a half-*** work-around by enabling vsync and restricting the refresh rate to 60 Hz. But that didn't solve the problem completely. The game has a restricted framerate of 60 fps. I tried hacking the console to remove the restriction and could not do it. EA would not tell me how either. The stuttering I encountered was NOT due to my system. In terms of framerate, the game ran consistently at 60 fps. But the stuttering ruined it for many of us. Like a previous post said, choppiness (e.g., due to lag in framerate) is subjective and some can handle it better than others. However, there is not a gamer out there that could have played the game with the type of stuttering I encountered. I guess it will remain a mystery. But, if the game stutters this year I won't be too sad to see EA leave the baseball game market. HP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 Horsepower, Your right on man, but I think we have nothing to look forward too. We got the same issues this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The H Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Right now, I'm in my office... and I'm playing the game on a 'kind of crappy' PC that has an XP 2500, a Radeon 9600 SE 128MB and 512MB. The first time I loaded the game, it was A CHOPPINESS GALLORE!... but don't despair, hehe... after adjusting the ATI drivers options to make it 2x AA, 2x AF, Vsync ON and a refresh rate of 75Hz (maximum supported by this LCD), the game ran much, much, much better... almost 'silky smooth', really... but this is a really POS vidcard, so I'm sure with any other one, that 'smoothness' level can be easily achieved. As soon as I'm back at home, I'll test the game in my 3 PCs... I'll be able to provide a more detailed report on its performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snash13 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 its running fine on my comp, smooth as silk :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 All this chatter about choppiness is just making me feel sick. Dont get me wrong, I agree with all of you. It doesen't matter what system you have or what res. you play at, it is choppy(stuttering, whatever). Why would they do this? It drove me nuts in 04.......I thought it was my computer. It was that frickin' game. All the other EA titles ran so good too. From what I saw on those preview trailers, I knew it would have the same issues of stuttering, you can see it. Also, the game is pretty well the same as last year. Same boring layout and pretty well the same comentary. They made a few tweaks but that's it. Like I said in an earlier thread. AN OVER NIGHT JOB! You blew it this time EA!!!! I was looking forward to this one so much too. All the $$$$$ I spend on their games and they cheap out on Frame rates! They pissed me off this time!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The H Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 What part of YOU HAVE TO TWEAK YOUR VIDCARD DRIVERS TO MAKE IT RUN SILKY SMOOTH didn't your understand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 I have an ATI 9800 256mb What do you suggest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 I also played 2004 at 1600X1200 Can I still do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The H Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Dude... when I posted my comment earlier today, I had just finished a couple of games... playing in my office (hehehe)... in a computer that is not supposed to be used for gaming (and by that, I mean that its specs are just perfect for a 'business' computer, nothing else). After tweaking the settings on the drivers, the little (POS) ATI 9600 SE vidcard managed to present the game in all its glory... almost choppiness free (99%)... so, you, with a 9800 256MB, should be more than comfortable and ready for whatever MVP is going to throw at you. And by the way... just a reminder... for your own sake, don't get all fed up about the 'choppiness' problem of the game without having played it yourself... that'll keep you stress free until the game shows up at your place and you're able to decide if the 'choppiness' is indeed a problem or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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