Talk about NBA 2K9 here, as well as all previous games in the NBA 2K series.
Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:51 am
STEAM? I have to install a third party program just to play NBA2K? Not to mention it takes up 12,000 K of my memory, which forces me to run NBA2K on the lowest possible settings; it still runs slow.
Was this absolutely necessary? And is there a way I can run NBA2K without it?
Thanks bunches.
Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:40 pm
yes there is a way, but since it is bypassing security protection it is not allowed to be discussed here by way of banning
you are the first person I've heard complain about steam taking up too much space and ruining the gameplay.
what are your computer specs
Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:57 pm
Steam doesn't force you to run it on the lowest possible settings, your computer does. Without Steam it'd run just as poorly.
Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:18 pm
yes there is a way, but since it is bypassing security protection it is not allowed to be discussed here by way of banning
you are the first person I've heard complain about steam taking up too much space and ruining the gameplay.
what are your computer specs
It's the truth. I closed all unneeded applications before playing the game, background tasks, etc, lowed by Desktop Resolution, STEAM was using 12,000 K of my memory, and it was laggy as hell.
Specs:
Windows Vista
3.00 GB of RAM
20.9 GB of space
Steam doesn't force you to run it on the lowest possible settings, your computer does. Without Steam it'd run just as poorly.
I doubt that. NBA2K was running at least half the amount of memory that STEAM was.
Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:38 pm
I can't believe how different NBA2K is compared to NBA Live. Was there ever a slam dunk button, or did they just happen to forget about it?
Sorry if this topic was made before.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:17 am
I merged your other topic in here, keep all your Q's in here since you seem to have little random ones
first off, those arent the specs we want, we need to know processor speed and your video card specs
2ndly, 12 mb isn't much at all for steam (even though mine runs at 6, but whatever) steam isn't causing your game to mess up, no matter how much you want it to
as for your dunk question, 2k9 goes for a more sim approach so you have to be nearly wide open to get your dunks, unless you tweak sliders. Dont be surprised that there are different control schemes between 2 completely different games. And if you aren't, you really should be playing this game with a gamepad to get the full experience of the shot stick and isomotion.
Don't get too whiney about it either, an EA dev just announced that NBA Live 10 is doing away with the dunk/layup button and going back to a 1 button system.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:34 am
I merged your other topic in here, keep all your Q's in here since you seem to have little random ones
Alrighty.
first off, those arent the specs we want, we need to know processor speed and your video card specs
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.00 GHz
Video Card: 1068 MB
Is that it? Sorry, I've never really looked.
2ndly, 12 mb isn't much at all for steam (even though mine runs at 6, but whatever) steam isn't causing your game to mess up, no matter how much you want it to
Then what is? The game?
as for your dunk question, 2k9 goes for a more sim approach so you have to be nearly wide open to get your dunks, unless you tweak sliders. Dont be surprised that there are different control schemes between 2 completely different games. And if you aren't, you really should be playing this game with a gamepad to get the full experience of the shot stick and isomotion.
Yes sir, Logitech dual action pad.
Don't get too whiney about it either, an EA dev just announced that NBA Live 10 is doing away with the dunk/layup button and going back to a 1 button system.
Not that mad, I was just curious.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:08 am
what kind of video card is it, 8800GT, x800gt, etc etc
Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:32 am
dude, this game, with the right roster and sliders, is freaking awesome.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:48 am
Dunk button is equivalent to holding the aggressive modifier and using the shot stick while moving to the basket. Sliders dictate how often a dunk is performed depending on the player's rating and the proximity of defenders.
You should be running the game on maximum settings with that setup, assuming you have a videocard wtih that much ram and it is not shared ram from an onboard video chip. Although there have been reports of problems with AMD cpu's, but I think that is only on Windows XP.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:05 am
NVIDIA MCP67M
Does that suffice?
Dunk button is equivalent to holding the aggressive modifier and using the shot stick while moving to the basket. Sliders dictate how often a dunk is performed depending on the player's rating and the proximity of defenders.
You should be running the game on maximum settings with that setup, assuming you have a videocard wtih that much ram and it is not shared ram from an onboard video chip. Although there have been reports of problems with AMD cpu's, but I think that is only on Windows XP.
Seriously, they didn't show that anywhere in the manual. But thanks, I checked it out a few hours ago.
Look, it runs slow as HELL. I'm convinced that it's because of STEAM.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:59 am
what other graphically enhanced games can you run
pretty sure your graphics card is incompatible, should have told us you had a laptop first
Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:21 am
I read that the MCP67M is shit. You should change the topic title to "This is what I get for paying $$$$" or whatever amount of money you paid for that laptop if you expected it to be a good gaming machine.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:47 pm
I can run NBA Live 07-08 beautifully, (on highest detail). Including other sports games.
Initially, this wasn't for gaming. It just worked out that way...
If you guys can't help with the laginess, then forget it. It doesn't matter anyway; I can play most modes bearably, on the lowest possible detail settings.
Thanks anyway.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:20 pm
well dude that is why
you were playing a PS2 ported game perfectly, and now you are trying to play a 360 ported game
If you could play crysis, Grid, Pure, GTAIV, or other 360 ported games and just 2k9 was screwing up, you'd have a different situation.
Plain and simple, it's not steam, it's your computer.
Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:11 am
Well then. That does make partial sense.
Sat May 02, 2009 4:43 pm
its true i had the same vid card you did and my game was slow as hell so i picked a radeon2400 hd and it works great
Sun May 03, 2009 12:29 am
Exe wrote:Well then. That does make partial sense.
No, it makes perfect sense.
You do know that you can exit Steam when 2K9 is already loaded?
Alt-Tab. Right click the Steam icon in the taskbar, then exit.
Mon May 04, 2009 7:26 pm
Exe wrote:Not to mention it takes up
12,000 K
of my memory, which forces me to run NBA2K on the lowest possible settings; it still runs slow.
That's rude there's no need to be like that.
Tue May 05, 2009 1:52 am
How is that rude? He doesn't seemt o know that 12,000 K of memory isn't much in this day with gigabytes of ram to work with.
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