Help with PC Madden 06, it's running at 5x the normal speed!

[blurredvision]

I upgraded my system to a new dual-core X2 Athlon, among a few other things, a couple of months ago. After the new upgrade and fresh OS install, Madden was one of the games to go back on the hard drive. I backed up all my settings and save files, and plugged those right back in before I even started up the game. The menus and everything were perfectly normal, but once I get into the game itself with the 3D graphics, the game is running at super speed.

Everything from the coin toss to on-field play is just running so damned fast. For example, on the opening kickoff, from time to kick and return, normally would take maybe 5-10 seconds in all (depends on how good of a runback it is ). On my super-speed Madden, it takes all of a second. You can see everything play out, it's not really skipping any frames, it's just the players run about 50 yards a second.

I gave up on it for a couple of months, but I want to play again, so I was hoping someone here could help me out. Hopefully it's a known problem with a known solution. FYI, all other games, such as NFS: Most Wanted, FEAR, BF2, etc. work fine on this comp, before and after the upgrade.

Thanks for any help.

[texranger]

Quote: Originally Posted by blurredvision

I upgraded my system to a new dual-core X2 Athlon, among a few other things, a couple of months ago. After the new upgrade and fresh OS install, Madden was one of the games to go back on the hard drive. I backed up all my settings and save files, and plugged those right back in before I even started up the game. The menus and everything were perfectly normal, but once I get into the game itself with the 3D graphics, the game is running at super speed. Everything from the coin toss to on-field play is just running so damned fast. For example, on the opening kickoff, from time to kick and return, normally would take maybe 5-10 seconds in all (depends on how good of a runback it is ). On my super-speed Madden, it takes all of a second. You can see everything play out, it's not really skipping any frames, it's just the players run about 50 yards a second. I gave up on it for a couple of months, but I want to play again, so I was hoping someone here could help me out. Hopefully it's a known problem with a known solution. FYI, all other games, such as NFS: Most Wanted, FEAR, BF2, etc. work fine on this comp, before and after the upgrade. Thanks for any help.

I also have a dual core (4200+), Just wondering if you are using an ATI card, I had a simliar issue a while back with a 9600xt. 1st thing I did was lower the AGP bus speed in the BIOS (from 8x to 4x) because the cpu thought I was overclocking my card. This seemed to help some but it was never quite right, it was either to fast or too slow.

In anycase, I ended up buying a 6800gt. Now I can run the game with all of the settings maxed out at 1600x1200 w/ no issues.

Wish I could help more....maybe post your specs....

[xxzone]

Make sure the turbo button isn't pushed in.......WTF where am I?

[Ckhoss29]

Quote: Originally Posted by blurredvision

I upgraded my system to a new dual-core X2 Athlon, among a few other things, a couple of months ago. After the new upgrade and fresh OS install, Madden was one of the games to go back on the hard drive. I backed up all my settings and save files, and plugged those right back in before I even started up the game. The menus and everything were perfectly normal, but once I get into the game itself with the 3D graphics, the game is running at super speed. Everything from the coin toss to on-field play is just running so damned fast. For example, on the opening kickoff, from time to kick and return, normally would take maybe 5-10 seconds in all (depends on how good of a runback it is ). On my super-speed Madden, it takes all of a second. You can see everything play out, it's not really skipping any frames, it's just the players run about 50 yards a second. I gave up on it for a couple of months, but I want to play again, so I was hoping someone here could help me out. Hopefully it's a known problem with a known solution. FYI, all other games, such as NFS: Most Wanted, FEAR, BF2, etc. work fine on this comp, before and after the upgrade. Thanks for any help.

Are you sure you aren't doing the glich like on John Elway's football (lol)

[blurredvision]

Quote: Originally Posted by texranger

I also have a dual core (4200+), Just wondering if you are using an ATI card, I had a simliar issue a while back with a 9600xt. 1st thing I did was lower the AGP bus speed in the BIOS (from 8x to 4x) because the cpu thought I was overclocking my card. This seemed to help some but it was never quite right, it was either to fast or too slow. In anycase, I ended up buying a 6800gt. Now I can run the game with all of the settings maxed out at 1600x1200 w/ no issues. Wish I could help more....maybe post your specs....

I'm running a 7800GT. I went from a single-core 3200+ & 6800GT to my 3800+ dual-core & 7800GT. New motherboard was in the works as well. Other parts include 1GB of PC3200, X-Fi Platinum card, nothing else really too special. The controller being used is a wireless Rumblepad 2.

I wish I could figure this out, I'd really like to play some football right now. I haven't done any troubleshooting besides reinstalling the game, because I just don't know where to start. I've had this same issue on multiple revisions of Forceware video drivers, so that's not it. I haven't upgraded any motherboard drivers, maybe that's where I'll turn next.

[Nza]

http://www.maddennews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11

This should do the trick.

[blurredvision]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nza

http://www.maddennews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11 This should do the trick.

Thanks a ton, I'm not really sure why I didn't think to do this before. I've read about people doing this to fix issues with other games and dual-core processors, but I've never ran into the problem myself.