Game Lag when loading media

[joeb2000 0]

I have a problem and was wondering if anyone could help or has had a similar problem.

 

When I try to play Red Alert 2 (not yuri), Everytime the games goes to load a sound effect like the level up, or something that doesnt happen often like building completed or a video file.

 

The game lags for 3-5 seconds then continues on like normal. This gets very frustrating. It worked on my old system fine, I dont know why it wont work right on this one.

 

 

Sometimes the game itself will lock up completely while playing a movie. Does anyone know what codec it uses to play it movies?

 

My system

Athlon 64 3400

1GB pc 2700

Geforce FX 5600

 

My old system was

Athlon xp 3000+

512 pc 2100

Geforce FX 5600

 

I am curious if the 64bit proc is the problem, I dont see why it would only affect this one program if it was though. I also dont see how haveing more faster ram would cause the problem.

 

I have all of the graphics drivers updated already.

 

Yes I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling about 6 times, I can recite the entire intro movies.

 

I would appreciate any helpful input.

 

P.S. Yes I have tried the 1.006 patch out for the game, it actually makes it worse.

[Cygnus X-1 12]

My friends lagged for about a week, every time there were major sound fX it would lag real bad, but he patched and it works, and I cant help you there. Strange though.

[joeb2000 0]

Ok I figured out what was causing the lag, (can't believe I didn't think of it sooner) I had to disable my antivirus so it wouldnt scan the files while the game was loading them.

 

Still am getting game freeze when playing video's though.

Not the main movies but the ones while you are in a mission.

[Wildshield 0]

For some reason I have to slow down my read-ahead catch to 32 or 16 in the file system when playing YR (not for RA2). The in-game movies would skip frame to frame where the sounds would not match the screen.

[joeb2000 0]

No one has any ideas as to what could be causing this?

 

Yuri's revenge plays fine, it is just red alert 2 the messes up.

 

It is really annoying, I actually sent a mesage to EA they say uninstall and reinstall.

 

I replied that I had done that several times with 2 different sets of disks.

 

So they send me an email saying to uninstall it again or send them some money and they will replace the disks I have.

 

How useless, I mean come on.

 

Any way back to business, does anyone know of any program or codec conflicts there are with red alert 2?

 

Or any problems with the athlon 64 proc's

[Luk3us 63]

Maybe do a search on the tech support forum here? :?

 

 

Oh and the vids are encoded with .bik

[joeb2000 0]

I can extract and play all of the videos fine. Just in-game they lock it up.

[joeb2000 0]

OK, compatability mode.

 

I had to check all of the options and run it under windows 95, it is still a little jumpy on a couple of the videos but there is no lock up so far.

 

I can deal with a little bit of lag.

 

Spoke to soon, it has to be a hardware problem. Maybe the athlon 64's