Resident Evil 5 - Frame rate horrific

[Darkstorm]

Hello

I bought Res 5 off steam during their deals last week but when I ran the game it was at some truly horrendous framerate (I didnt even get into the game, the intro was like still shots)

I managed to get to the title screen and run the benchmark only for it to be running at less then 1 fps =< (I wa using the default settings 1024 res medium graphics)

My pc is currently:
Windows XP
3.01ghz AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
Geforce 9800 GT (Manafacturer overclocked variant)
2GB DDR RAM

Surely I meet the specs required? am I missing some additional software needed for this game or something?

any information appreciated as otherwise I'll have to talk to steam about a refund

[sj33]

There's no reason you shouldn't be able to run it, I get between 35fps and 60fps (capped at 30fps in-game) on my 8400m GS, which is a much lower card.

The obvious questions, do you have a relatively recent driver, latest Direct X (August 2009) and have PhysX enabled/disabled.

[Darkstorm]

ah driver is dated 07/10/2008

Theres a reason I downloaded newer drivers but found my desktop image looked somehow blurrier, almost like on a n64 game,

Also the settings sliders changed so I could never get the brightness/contrast quite right (why they had to change the sliders at all is beyond me)

I could understand this could be a cause why it'd make the pre title screen movie as jerky as stated though is beyond me as surely thats all rendered video not realtime?

The driect X updated itself as I ran the game so I'm assuming thats the latest version? and I'm pretty sure I have PhysX on here as it has a PhysX properties in my Nvidia start menu folder

[abigsmurf]

try turning physX off, that can impact performance (although not usually anywhere near as bad as you're experiencing)

[Hohum]

Don't think the game uses Physx, so won't see any benefit adjusting that. I'd just put it down to you needing to update your graphics driver.

[Darkstorm]

If I go that route whats the best way to go about it? Unistall old driver then install new? or uninstall then use one of those cleanup programs?

[Hohum]

Uninstall old, reboot, install new, reboot. Don't bother with driver cleaning apps, not really needed (unless you were changing graphics card vendor, then perhaps).

[Kit]

Have you defragged? - my hard drive looks a mess after installing a Steam game.