MTA runs very slowly.

[Guest]

I have an original DVD of the game, everything is fine until I try to join a game. The loading screen comes up very slowly like it's skipping frames, during loading the loading screens change as fast as normal, when the loading screen fades out it acts just like before with skipping frames. In game my FPS is less than 1. The game is not patched and I am not using a crack. The frame rate is fine in single player.

I'm using Windows XP SP2, A64 3500+, 1 GB RAM, 6800GT. All of my drivers are up to date.

Edit: I found I can use the map editor just fine, I can place stuff and then test the map. If I connect to a server, and then hit esc and go into the map editor from there I get horrible framerates. If I quit to the main menu the poor performance still effects the cursor.

[Guest]

Maybe you have too many things running in the background. See if that's the problem.

[zerb]

Could be the reso or texture could be slowing you down a little.

[Guest]

Maybe you have too many things running in the background. See if that's the problem.

This was the problem. MTA runs in low priority and I'm also running folding at home which takes up as much as the processor it can as long as no program with a higher priority wants it. I had to turn off FAH and now it works.

[Zahl]

MTA runs at a priority below normal? Why that?

I have some major slowdowns every now and then, this could be ralated

with some program running in the background. But I dont really want to

stop all that stuff running before playing MTA

[orappa]

Runs at normal priority on mine...

[Guest]

Same Here, Everything runs fine until i start a game. then i only get very much lag and when i quit the game i am in everything runs fast again.

I have a:

Amd Sempron 2600+

768Mb RAM

Nvidia Geforce fx 5500 256MB