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Geek Culture / slow gfx on a fast pc

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Pricey
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Posted: 9th Mar 2004 22:47
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I have recently upgraded from a 500MHz to a Duron 1.8GHz which is a concsiderable improvement. When I put the new motherboard and CPU in the graphics really sucked and thief wouldn't play and DB sucked. Then i found that the board had 2 gfx cards on board and i was using the poor one (both are 8mb). I set it to use the better one and thief played (very well) and there was much rejoiceing. Then i tried to use DB which is a totally different story. it is slow and nasty. the PC has 256MB of ram, but i am getting framerates of 6 after only loading a few cubes .

i have two theorys:

1) i need a better gfx card
2) DB is still using the poor gfx card

please help


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james1980
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Posted: 10th Mar 2004 02:50 Edited at: 10th Mar 2004 02:58
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you have a duron thats the problem that thing sucks @$$.
a celeron is better than that and that is weak 128k cache.
need a better video card at least 32mb.
the ram is ok.
and a front side bus of 333mhz for amd systems,400mhz for intel systems at the smallest

uninstall the vid card's drivers and reinstall.
if that don't work buy a better video card 32mb cards $19.99-$39.99usd
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BatVink
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I think a 1.8 Ghz Duron is going to outperform a 500 Mhz chip, James1980!

1. You need a gfx card with more memory, 8MB is insufficient. Geforce 5200 FX is a good value card at the moment if you can stretch to around $70. This would get you a card with 128 MB of memory and shader support.

2. Check your BIOS AGP settings, that the speed matches the card.
Set the gfx memory shadowing to 8 MB to match the card.

3. Switch off any "smart" software monitoring of the graphics performance if you have any installed.

4. DB is going to select your primary card, but you can force it to select whichever card you like, check the help files for enumerating and selecting devices.

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james1980
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Quote: "I think a 1.8 Ghz Duron is going to outperform a 500 Mhz chip, James1980!"
i never said that.

and i said the duron is is the problem.
they are not the best for 3d.
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Lord Ozzum
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Hello World:

what's a graphic card (stop sighing, laughing, and flaming my idiocy)

and a merry f*kking Christmas to you, @$$hole...
If I offend you, the Government is putting me through electric sleep, sorry!
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I think we are getting our wires crossed here

My point being, you shouldn't expect the graphics to deteriorate when upgrading from a 500 Mhz CPU to a 1.8 Ghz CPU, no matter what the brand or model is.

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james1980
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well the truth is a the cache of the processor makes a big diffrerence (example: celeron 128K to the p4 512,1mb,2mb ee)
makes a difference plus the fsb 400,533,800 and the speed mhz
1.5ghz 512k cache p4 with a 400 mhz front side bus is faster than a 2.8ghz 128k cache celeron with 400mhz bus with the same ram video card .
the brand and model makes a big difference like radeon 9800se is very weak to the radeon 9800xt wich is off the scales

only thing i have left to say is buying computer parts can be a pain if you dont read up on the specs and know what they mean like gigaflops are the true processor power like torque on a car is the power on a car
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until recently i was using a duron 1.3gHz, it ran FINE, the only thing that made it struggle at all was halo because the ai was a bit too much for it, not the graphics, it didn't help that the mobo i was running the 1.3gHz duron on was only supposed to go up to 850mHz either.

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Proteus 1935
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Hey pricey ,
your problem is your video card like it was said before, but you also said that when using a secoundary video card your games ran fine right?

try

PERFORM CHECKLIST FOR GRAPHICS CARDS

& other related commands

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Pricey
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that's the command! i was looking for that everywhere! THANKS!


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