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I know it's logical that turning turning off the sound increases to frame rate. (Which in turn helps with pass completions in a physics based game.)

Since I don't like my computer talking, beeping, yelling or otherwise annoying me, I normally play (watch CPU v CPU) the game with my speakers turned off. I decided when starting my latest game that I would uncheck the sound option in my latest quick play game.

WOW what a difference. My frame rate on my (not for gaming) laptop (w/ 256mb mem and shared mem video card) was averaging around 22-24 fps. With the sound turned off I am consistantly in the 27-28 fps range. Everything is running smoother.

The QBs on both sides of the ball are completing 50% or more of their passes (I have never had that happen in MF before)

This is only after 1 1/2 quarters of play so far but it looks promising, but not near enough to make a trend.

I guess my question is for the community at large. Has any one else tried this? Will anybody try this and see if it helps them also?

Every time i pop in here and see how the games going and perhaps buy the thing.post like this turn up,and off i go

If this is true,this must be some crazy program

oh well back in a few days

aysi stated:

Every time i pop in here and see how the games going and perhaps buy the thing.post like this turn up,and off i go

If this is true,this must be some crazy program

oh well back in a few days

This is known. Computers that do not have enough graphics or memory power to meet the specs will run the game but will not run the game correctly.

WOW what a difference. My frame rate on my (not for gaming) laptop (w/ 256mb mem and shared mem video card) was averaging around 22-24 fps. With the sound turned off I am consistantly in the 27-28 fps range. Everything is running smoother.

Machines that cannot hit the 28-33 FPS specs will not run the game correctly. Shaggy, why don't you add some memory to that laptop? 256MB is low to start, and the video card is likely stealing 64MB of that memory away.

ORIGINAL: Shaggyra

I know it's logical that turning turning off the sound increases to frame rate. (Which in turn helps with pass completions in a physics based game.)

Since I don't like my computer talking, beeping, yelling or otherwise annoying me, I normally play (watch CPU v CPU) the game with my speakers turned off. I decided when starting my latest game that I would uncheck the sound option in my latest quick play game.

WOW what a difference. My frame rate on my (not for gaming) laptop (w/ 256mb mem and shared mem video card) was averaging around 22-24 fps. With the sound turned off I am consistantly in the 27-28 fps range. Everything is running smoother.

I am assuming that you have an integrated sound card? Meaning one that sits on your main board and shares resources (memory and CPU cycles) with your graphics card?

I have memory ordered.

The laptop is not really for gaming. [;)] It's my work laptop. (Don't tell my wife she thinks I'm working)
I mainly play the game on my desktop.

I was just suprised at the amount of difference that the lack of sound makes.

Machines that cannot hit the 28-33 FPS specs will not run the game correctly.

Whoa. I've seen some real claims earlier here that contradict this. I believe Erik said 22-24 would be ok. If know we say 28-33, then the whole thing about minimum specs will flare up again.



Once again, all I was trying to do was suggest this as an option for players who may not meet the min specs or be down near them. It's a suggestion and request for additional verification it works for others. I know my laptop is below specs. I generally only report problems that occur on the more powerful desktop computer. But it can work with weaker systems, that is the spirit of the post.

[8|] I'm really getting tired of posting and people going off.

ok but I'm still having frame rate problems ave about 24-25 my vid card has 256mb my ram is 1 gb on a 2.2 ghz system and before I've said I run Madden 2006 and even Morrowwind on highest settings with no problems.

I'm getting a steady 34 fps

once in a while it rops down to 28but only for second

I just barely started up the game like 5 minutes ago and one of the teams actually made a field goal. The opening kick off still went off to the side a bit but it went past midfiel and didn't go out of bounds.

I have an okay system but the sound card is pretty old
Sound Blaster Awe64.

Whoa. I've seen some real claims earlier here that contradict this. I believe Erik said 22-24 would be ok. If know we say 28-33, then the whole thing about minimum specs will flare up again.

I had problems getting passes to hit at 22-24 in beta. In my experience, if the game isn't running at around 28-33 while the plays are going (not during the spin or coming out of the huddle), the passes will be affected detrimentally.

Note that the game locks down the FPS over 33-34 frames to make sure the game doesn't go too fast, killer rigs are not a problem.

Once again, all I was trying to do was suggest this as an option for players who may not meet the min specs or be down near them. It's a suggestion and request for additional verification it works for others. I know my laptop is below specs. I generally only report problems that occur on the more powerful desktop computer. But it can work with weaker systems, that is the spirit of the post.

That's cool. I was just adding information, so people might understand why turning off the sound helps. It helps because the computer needed the cycles to get closer to spec.

I'm really getting tired of posting and people going off.

Shaggy, no one went off. You are making assumptions about intentions that are not there. Hey, we are all here to help out.

Thanks for posting about this, as it will certainly help on laptops when the boss is around too. [;)]

i think your right i was playing a quick play game and in the first quater , one QB was 9 of 10 the other 5 of 8 , . The assing stats would been better yardage wise but . I think there was 10 fumbles in the quater , mostly after a long catch and run .

As far as I know, the "good" range is from 22+, but the game has its limit set at 25+. Thus, the "official good" range is 25+ and the specs were set with that in mind, but our testing showed 22+ as giving good results. I haven't seen completion differences in the 22-32 (fps cap) range, but I have below that. When you have more stats, let me know if you are really seeing a trend or if it was just a particularly good game for passing.

Regards,

- Erik