smckdwn989 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I have been reading that the choppiness is still and issue. So heres and idea, post your complete specs and settings for all to see. This will allow one to decipher if this issue is still a problem, or its the users computer that is a problem if admins don't like me calling it official, feel free to change or delete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I am really nervous about as I am picking up the game in an hour. I think the higher the specs, the worse the choppiness. Like last year, the game looks like it might play better on slower systems. I am hoping its not the ghosted balls issue where it looks like threee balls are flying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezdriver Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Well, the stutters are still there, but it seems to be to a lesser degree than last years version. I only just installed the game and didn't really have much time to play around with it. But...the stutters are the first thing I looked at. Throws from the outfield "seem" to be smoother, and throws within the infield are where I saw most of the stuttering. I run the game at 1280 res with everything set to max (system specs are in my sig). I hope to run it through more of a test tonight when I get home from work. ez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkB Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Things to list: CPU type and speed RAM type, amount and speed Video card model and memory Sound card model and memory Monitor type, resolution, settings and refresh rate Hard disk model, speed and size CD-ROM model, type and speed Power supply type and wattage Operating system I think that should do. Can't imagine it being connected to anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aodaniel Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I have the choppiness problem too. I'll what specs I know off the top of my head. Windows XP Home AMD Athlon 1700 512 MB DDR Ram 40 Gig Western Digital Hard Drive @ 7200 rpm ATI Radeon 9600XT 256 MB Video Card Sound Blaster Audigy Sound Card 19 inch NEC Multisync FE950 running game at 1280x1024 (or whatever the highest res is) with 85 Hz refresh rate. System is going on 3 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Mines stuttering pretty bad, a little worse than '04. Playing at 1280x1024 4xAA, 8xAF (why EA left out 1600x1200 is a mystery). Athlon64 3400+ 2.2ghz 2x512 Mushkin Specials PC3200 ATI X800XT PE TB Santa Cruz 5.1 Viewsonic 19" 85hz 1024x768 2x36GB WD Raptors 48x DVD-R and CD-RW drives PCP&C Turbocool 510 WinXP SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I am seeing 85hz a lot....MVP likes 60hz. Try 60hz with VSync on. Depending on your drivers there should also be some refresh rate override settings in your display properties so you dont have to change this back and forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezdriver Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I, too, run my refresh for everything at 85Hz. 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...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 In your video card options VSync usually has the choice of Off, On or Program Specific, First off all change it to program specific. If your desktop is set to 85Hz and you put VSvnc ON in MVP, MVP will try to run the game at 85Hz, but the game will lag behind.......like baseballs lagging behind...ghosting behind...follow me? Ok. Does MVP have on option to select the refresh rate? If yes, change it to 60, and select VSync ON. If not, you are going to have to go into your display properties and manually change your desktop VSync to 60 everytime you play MVP. OR, you can use the aforementioned refresh override option to change your monitor to 60 every time you play a game at XXXX resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoggi Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 will refresh rates matter for a laptop? Mine only displays 60Hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewha202002 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 The choppiness is bad, I think that it is noticably worse then last year. Here are my specs. AMD Athlon 2500 Overclocked to 2.2 ghz ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 1 Gig Corsair 3200 XMS Series Chaintech Nividia 5900XT 250 Gig WD HD I play with it set at 60 htz for the refresh rate w/ v sync on. Allthough not a game killer, the framerate and choppiness is a major issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleBall5 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Mine appears to be stuttering pretty much the same amount as 04. Here are my specs: Athlon XP 2700+ (2.16 GHz) 512 MB RAM ATI Radeon 9600 256 MB 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz Windows XP Not the best system, but miles ahead of the specs. I hope someone can find a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 This is so strange. You know, I have never seen someone with MVP choppy gameplay with a processor under 2000. MVP 2003 ran perfect. What the heck did they do with 04 and 05? I mean look at "brewha202002"'s specs. EA coded this game to work on lower end systems. With faster systems the screen moves quicker than the ball can, causing the ball to stutter all around. This is nuts. I am wondering about PCI Latency. I will run some tests with this new PCI latency tool I found. You see, a lot of video cards have the PCI latency set to 256. With this program you can lower it to 64. It worked miracles for World of Warcraft. I will let you know what I find tonight. In the meantime I am going after work to buy myself the Gamecube version as well. I may be done with PC sports titles. They have never FELT right to me. No matter what controller I get, they just never feel smooth the way a console does. At least on a console the FPS is locked and wont change much. I have an Athlon 2800XP 1Gb RAM Geforce 6800 I can run Half Life 2, Doom 3, Morrowind all with 2AA on 1280 x 1024 silky smooth. Pop Madden 2005 or some other EA Sports game and it just does not feel right. I never use stadium mods anyway. Oh well I will let you know about the PCI latency tool.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewha202002 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 This is so strange. You know, I have never seen someone with MVP choppy gameplay with a processor under 2000. MVP 2003 ran perfect. What the heck did they do with 04 and 05? I mean look at "brewha202002"'s specs. EA coded this game to work on lower end systems. With faster systems the screen moves quicker than the ball can, causing the ball to stutter all around. This is nuts. I am wondering about PCI Latency. I will run some tests with this new PCI latency tool I found. You see, a lot of video cards have the PCI latency set to 256. With this program you can lower it to 64. It worked miracles for World of Warcraft. I will let you know what I find tonight. In the meantime I am going after work to buy myself the Gamecube version as well. I may be done with PC sports titles. They have never FELT right to me. No matter what controller I get, they just never feel smooth the way a console does. At least on a console the FPS is locked and wont change much. I have an Athlon 2800XP 1Gb RAM Geforce 6800 I can run Half Life 2, Doom 3, Morrowind all with 2AA on 1280 x 1024 silky smooth. Pop Madden 2005 or some other EA Sports game and it just does not feel right. I never use stadium mods anyway. Oh well I will let you know about the PCI latency tool.. Same here. I run games like Farcry and Doom and max resolution and have no problems. Silky smooth. With MVP, I just scratch my head. I dont understand why it is playing this way. I have seen people mention that it may be drivers, or defrag your HD. UUUH friends, it has nothing to with defragging, my drivers I use are fine. It is the game! I look forward to see if we can solve this. Keep in mind, EA can solve this with a patch as well. BY NO MEANS IS THIS A GAME KILLER. I love this game and so far the gameplay is top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewha202002 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 To be honest, if this game is coded to run on slower systems, I am tempted to underclock my video card and processor. Anyone think that could solve it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkrahling Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Well I tryed the Latency software brought it all the way down to 32, didn't see any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyrunner Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Well, I have a fairly new PC, bought it at the beginning of the year. I really enjoyed MVP2004. No issues. Just installed MVP2005 and I get stuttering when the ball is thrown across the field. Here is the information requested (some of it I didn't know...). Hope this helps. AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 1.79 GHz 1.00GB RAM ATI Radeon 9550 AGP Sound - I have no idea Samsung Monitor: Refresh=60 Hertz; 1280x1024 Res Hard drive 180 GB (% free=91) Samsung CD-ROM (says 48x max speed) Power Supply=400 watts Windows XP Pro, SP2 Any suggestions? It's not unbearable, just disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 That is an interesting idea. This problem has intrigued me for the last year or so and I have done some research. I am conveinced it has been coded down for slower systems. This would explain seeing 3 baseballs fly across the filed when you throw. The game or monitor are not in sync with how fast your processor/video card combo is. Notice I said processor. Why? I remember guys last year talking about their Athlon 1.1Ghz, with Geforce 4MX cards saying how smooth the gameplay was. It got me thinking..And how about all the people who CRANK up on 4xAA and 4XAF and notice improvement? Because running AA slowed their system down a bit thats why! Now, if running AA had a huge effect on their system where was their bottleneck? Why? Because we are trying to create a bottleneck! I say underclock the card BY A LOT. Make your core and memory like HALF of what it is now. Let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 What a suprise! Another top notch system bites the dust. I need a drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Thanks tkrahling for trying that. By the way go Dodgers..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdchap Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 05 is choppy as 04 was out of the box.... This only occurs with infield throws... Weird. Here are my specs: Pent4 2.4 GHZ 60 Gig HD 2 GIG RAM GeForce 6600 GT 128MB 1280X1284 RES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkrahling Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Tried lowering my clock speeds from 475/450 to 350/350 no change damn EA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewha202002 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Well, I have a fairly new PC, bought it at the beginning of the year. I really enjoyed MVP2004. No issues. Just installed MVP2005 and I get stuttering when the ball is thrown across the field. Here is the information requested (some of it I didn't know...). Hope this helps. AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 1.79 GHz 1.00GB RAM ATI Radeon 9550 AGP Sound - I have no idea Samsung Monitor: Refresh=60 Hertz; 1280x1024 Res Hard drive 180 GB (% free=91) Samsung CD-ROM (says 48x max speed) Power Supply=400 watts Windows XP Pro, SP2 Any suggestions? It's not unbearable, just disappointing. Olyrunner. I was just wondering why your Athlon 3200 is running at 1.79 ghz. At stock speeds, your processor should be running at 2.2 ghz. You processor must be underclocked in BIOS. Sorry to get off topic, just noticed that and wanted to point it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyrunner Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 brew, could you tell me where to find the processor speed? I just put down the number next to the RAM, thinking it was the same.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabroni Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 The Xbox version runs as smooth as silk. I'm really surprised at how good it is. 8O The player faces are very good as well. They made Manny Ramirez's face perfect of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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