Fallout 2 mod Slow performance / Frozen / lagging (with MM)

[teskal]

I play Fallout 2 with the Megamod (2.45.4). But very often I can't do anything.

The game nearly freeze completely, I can move only very slow, clicking need endless till I get a reaction, loading and saving needs very long and so on.

In some Windows (talking with people) or levels like rat invested catacombs in Klamath it is (most of the time) ok again, but some maps (encounters or towns) I have real problems to play at all.
Moving throw the wilderness is very slow, now, too.

Issues started since Klamath, before it was ok. And it is getting worse and more worse. In Den it doesn't get much faster again, if if it happens it happens only a little bit faster.

I have:
Window 10 64 bit
use GOG.com F2
I use a modern Alienware Notebook with Geforce card, 14GB free space on the HDD and 8 GB RAM.
I deactivated everything I do not need in the autostart.
Closed all programms
Deactivated antivirus, even deinstalled it, because it was the old AVG 2015 anyway.
Deleted the TEMP files

I know it is not a MM related issue. I heard deleting ddraw.dll helps, but not with the mod installed.


Is there any cache I can delete or increase cache size?
Make a setting in Windows I can check (if yes where)?
Or do anything else?



Additional info how I installed MM:
- deactivated virus scanner
- made copy of the F2 game folder
- check F2 first, saving works fine
- path of the game: c:\gog games\fallout 2
- renamed patch000.dat
- moved all files and folders from the 2.45.3 full repack in the folder
- put all 2.5.4 files in the F2 folder
- started ProcessDat2.exe
- started runme.bat

No difference if I use fallout2HR.exe or fallout2.exe.

 

[teskal]

Ok, I tried many changes in the ini's with no success.
After chkdsk /r/b I found defect parts on the HDD, which are not repairable.

I had so many customers on the phone telling them "Your System/Program is slow? Check the HDD...". And what did I,...

Issue is solved, after moving F2 from C: to E:
(E: is a reall different HDD!)

How to check the HDD (Win Vista, Win7, Win10)
- press start button
- enter CMD in the command line
- click with right mouse button on CMD and choose 'start as admin' (do not know the exact wording in english!)
- write chkdsk /r/b if your game is on c: and press enter
- you will be asked if you want to check the HDD during the next start of windows, answer (y)es.
- restart pc, do not stop the disk checking, wait, wait, ... and wait
- after windows started again, press start button
- enter CMD in the command line
- click with right mouse button on CMD and choose 'start as admin' (do not know the exact wording in english!)
- write chkdsk if your game is on c: and press enter (yes, without /r/b)
at the end it shows if there defect parts (for example '8 kb in defect sectors', do not know the exact wording in english!)

If your game is on d:, write d: and press enter in the CMD application before starting the CHKDSK. Same with e: or f: and so on...

I know it is possible to start CMD also in the properties of the drives, but win 10 didn't let me choose the /r/b options which I could in earlier OS.

In older windows it is also possible to to the same steps. Only the command line is not available and you need to press on 'run' after the start button (again I'm not sure if the name of it is really 'run', I'm seldom working with WinXP)

I will get a new HDD. It is still a shame that Microsoft couldn't make it possible to mark defect sectors to make it unpossible to write in them after all these windows versions. No it still slows down the HDD instead without any feedback.