I have fond memories of playing AVP2 online <3

I don't know of your issue though. Only thing I could come up witht hus far is to make sure your version of the game has the latest patch as this might have been an issue with your base game.

I don't know other details though, like if you're using a boxed/retail copy or some downloaded version (latter will often be patched already).

Tetrium wrote on 2020-11-20, 20:08:

I have fond memories of playing AVP2 online <3

I don't know of your issue though. Only thing I could come up witht hus far is to make sure your version of the game has the latest patch as this might have been an issue with your base game.

I don't know other details though, like if you're using a boxed/retail copy or some downloaded version (latter will often be patched already).

Hi. Thank you very much for replying!
It occured to me that the version of the game could be the reason (it is a downloaded one). A patch (which number cannot recall) is applied, yes.
Nevertheless, the tested version of the game is the same throughout all tests. With 2 other different systems, the same game behaves as expected, it is not the case with this third platform (DFI CA64-TC based).

I went clueless.
I am trying to determine if this motherboard is worth keeping or not (if this kind of issues could happen with other titles too, maybe a known issue with this chipset, etc.)

Are youi trying to record at the same time?
Fraps will kill your FPS is recording to the same hard drive that your playing the game on.

Con 2 botones wrote on 2020-11-20, 20:37:

Hi. Thank you very much for replying! It occured to me that the version of the game could be the reason (it is a downloaded one […]
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Tetrium wrote on 2020-11-20, 20:08:

I have fond memories of playing AVP2 online <3

I don't know of your issue though. Only thing I could come up witht hus far is to make sure your version of the game has the latest patch as this might have been an issue with your base game.

I don't know other details though, like if you're using a boxed/retail copy or some downloaded version (latter will often be patched already).

Hi. Thank you very much for replying!
It occured to me that the version of the game could be the reason (it is a downloaded one). A patch (which number cannot recall) is applied, yes.
Nevertheless, the tested version of the game is the same throughout all tests. With 2 other different systems, the same game behaves as expected, it is not the case with this third platform (DFI CA64-TC based).

I went clueless.
I am trying to determine if this motherboard is worth keeping or not (if this kind of issued could happen with other titles too, maybe a known issue with this chipset, etc.)

If it's this motherboard of yours and displaying only intermittent issues like this one, it may have to do with your board's VIA chipset?
I haven't much personal experience with your particular chipset, but I have understood from around here that it did have its issues at times.
If it's using an unofficial patch (I remember when AVP2 got abandoned and have the actual boxed version), it may have to do with that patch.

If I remember correctly, AVP2 should have a configuration file. I don't remember anything else from that file except that it had the (perhaps hidden?) option to set a key so you could switch from 1st to 3rd person. I had it using my "J" key and this did benefit me back when I played this awesome game online! =D
But this configuration file may be of use for configuring other stuff. But like I said, I haven't used that file in many years now.

EDIT:
Here's some info about this file:
https://kingskins.avpunknown.com/tutorials.html
It doesn't mention anything related to sound though, but this might still exist as I've only looked at this particular website.

It also contains the bit about 3rd person view. I'll copy it to here in case I ever need it for myself 🤣
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This tutorial explains how to enable third-person point of view in AvP2. […]
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This tutorial explains how to enable third-person point of view in AvP2.

Open up your autoexec.cfg file located in c:/Program Files/Fox/Aliens vs. Predator 2/ with Windows Notepad.

Copy the following:

rangebind "##keyboard" "y" 0.000000 0.000000 "ChaseView"

And paste the line somewhere in the set of rangebind lines.

For example, I pasted the code between "Forward" and "QuickView" like so:

rangebind "##keyboard" "##31" 0.000000 0.000000 "Backward"
rangebind "##keyboard" "##17" 0.000000 0.000000 "Forward"
rangebind "##keyboard" "y" 0.000000 0.000000 "ChaseView"
rangebind "##keyboard" "##65" 0.000000 0.000000 "QuickLoad"
rangebind "##keyboard" "##64" 0.000000 0.000000 "QuickSave"

You can also change the key "y" to any other key you desire, but make sure it isn't used for another action. The "y" key should be a good key to use in that you won't accidentally press it, nor is it hard to reach when playing.

Now save the autoexec.cfg file (Ctrl+S) and you're finished.

Once in-game, you can enable third-person view by pressing the Y key. By pressing the key once, the camera will zoom out behind the character model (of whatever character you're playing as). If you then press the Y key and hold it, you can move the camera around your character via the mouse. Press the Y key once more and the camera will return to the normal first-person point of view.

There are a few notable problems that will affect only your character with third-person point of view.
Character animations in single player will be static (non-moving) in this mode.
The predator's eyes glow white in this mode (even when cloaked).
Other than that it works pretty good. I've used this mod/hidden feature numerous times for both gameplay and taking screenshots of changes in my files.

Regarding your wishes of knowledge on whether or not to keep your current VIA board...you've actually shown us and yourself a very good example of why it is so cool to have a backup system: In case some particular game won't work on one system, you can always use another! =)
This is what I did and if something just wouldn't work on one rig, I'd simply pick up one of my others instead of wasting hours to troubleshoot a perhaps insolvable problem which doesn't exist when using a different rig.

Law212 wrote on 2020-11-20, 21:20:

Are youi trying to record at the same time?
Fraps will kill your FPS is recording to the same hard drive that your playing the game on.

Hello and thank you for the idea!
But no, Fraps is just counting the frames, not recording.
It is doing its thing in 3 differents systems, only in one of them the FPS counter drops to 14 in-game like this.

Tetrium wrote on 2020-11-20, 21:26:

If it's this motherboard of yours and displaying only intermittent issues like this one, it may have to do with your board's VIA […]
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Con 2 botones wrote on 2020-11-20, 20:37:

Hi. Thank you very much for replying! It occured to me that the version of the game could be the reason (it is a downloaded one […]
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Tetrium wrote on 2020-11-20, 20:08:

I have fond memories of playing AVP2 online <3

I don't know of your issue though. Only thing I could come up witht hus far is to make sure your version of the game has the latest patch as this might have been an issue with your base game.

I don't know other details though, like if you're using a boxed/retail copy or some downloaded version (latter will often be patched already).

Hi. Thank you very much for replying!
It occured to me that the version of the game could be the reason (it is a downloaded one). A patch (which number cannot recall) is applied, yes.
Nevertheless, the tested version of the game is the same throughout all tests. With 2 other different systems, the same game behaves as expected, it is not the case with this third platform (DFI CA64-TC based).

I went clueless.
I am trying to determine if this motherboard is worth keeping or not (if this kind of issued could happen with other titles too, maybe a known issue with this chipset, etc.)

If it's this motherboard of yours and displaying only intermittent issues like this one, it may have to do with your board's VIA chipset?
I haven't much personal experience with your particular chipset, but I have understood from around here that it did have its issues at times.
If it's using an unofficial patch (I remember when AVP2 got abandoned and have the actual boxed version), it may have to do with that patch.

If I remember correctly, AVP2 should have a configuration file. I don't remember anything else from that file except that it had the (perhaps hidden?) option to set a key so you could switch from 1st to 3rd person. I had it using my "J" key and this did benefit me back when I played this awesome game online! =D
But this configuration file may be of use for configuring other stuff. But like I said, I haven't used that file in many years now.

EDIT:
Here's some info about this file:
https://kingskins.avpunknown.com/tutorials.html
It doesn't mention anything related to sound though, but this might still exist as I've only looked at this particular website.

It also contains the bit about 3rd person view. I'll copy it to here in case I ever need it for myself 🤣
Original link to content is here above

This tutorial explains how to enable third-person point of view in AvP2. […]
Show full quote

This tutorial explains how to enable third-person point of view in AvP2.

Open up your autoexec.cfg file located in c:/Program Files/Fox/Aliens vs. Predator 2/ with Windows Notepad.

Copy the following:

rangebind "##keyboard" "y" 0.000000 0.000000 "ChaseView"

And paste the line somewhere in the set of rangebind lines.

For example, I pasted the code between "Forward" and "QuickView" like so:

rangebind "##keyboard" "##31" 0.000000 0.000000 "Backward"
rangebind "##keyboard" "##17" 0.000000 0.000000 "Forward"
rangebind "##keyboard" "y" 0.000000 0.000000 "ChaseView"
rangebind "##keyboard" "##65" 0.000000 0.000000 "QuickLoad"
rangebind "##keyboard" "##64" 0.000000 0.000000 "QuickSave"

You can also change the key "y" to any other key you desire, but make sure it isn't used for another action. The "y" key should be a good key to use in that you won't accidentally press it, nor is it hard to reach when playing.

Now save the autoexec.cfg file (Ctrl+S) and you're finished.

Once in-game, you can enable third-person view by pressing the Y key. By pressing the key once, the camera will zoom out behind the character model (of whatever character you're playing as). If you then press the Y key and hold it, you can move the camera around your character via the mouse. Press the Y key once more and the camera will return to the normal first-person point of view.

There are a few notable problems that will affect only your character with third-person point of view.
Character animations in single player will be static (non-moving) in this mode.
The predator's eyes glow white in this mode (even when cloaked).
Other than that it works pretty good. I've used this mod/hidden feature numerous times for both gameplay and taking screenshots of changes in my files.

Didn´t know about that peculiar config file you mentioned above. Interesting. I´ll check it, I don´t think it has to do with my issue here though.
Fact is the same version of the game, with same patch, behaves horribly in only one of the 3 systems...A on paper, less capable system (PIII 750) delivers much better performance than this Tualatin capable one...
I´ll try one more thing , that will be the limit of my patience with this DFI CA64-TC.
I´ll install a fresh W98se SP3 on an IDE drive, leaving out the S-ATA to IDE adapter.
Let´s see...