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« on: August 14, 2007, 02:54:37 pm » |
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yo.
as i am noob about hardware, i'd like to ask some questions ;p
my sister has got amd sempron 3400+ (1,8ghz), 1gb ram and geForce 6100GS with included graphics (it uses 256mb of ram memory). i think it's pretty good for elder games, but the point is that all are working soo slow...
her OS is Vista business edition (even Aero works perfect, but games not O_o). games i've tested on this comp were: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Flatout 1, Tomb Raider Anniversary - all were working slow. i've installed all drivers for graphics card, motherboard, but nothing has changed. ill try to download newest version, but im not sure - can it be fault of vista+drivers incompatibility?
coming back to games. Return to Castle Ws worked perfect on 32mb graphic card, 600mhz processor and 256mb of ram on highest details, Anniversary on pentium 3ghz/512mb/gf4 mmx 64mb, flatout 1 - on same comp as TR... wtf is going on? i think her comp is way better than theese.
help pls i <3 u.
shaq, szakuś
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Michael
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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007, 03:01:04 pm » |
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1.) I suggest you to buy a cheap (not newest) agp card (if there's a PCI-Express slot buy a PCIe card)
There are good graphic cards for about 100 bucks. In general onboard graphic just sucks hard.
2.) if you don't really need vista, use windows XP ! VIsta is currently not the best to use, when drivers are optimized and so on it should be faster then XP but for now I would still use XP...
3.) are there any cpu-intensive programms running in the background, such as a virus scanner (did you try to disable them?)
however this hardware should do the job with old games as you said, maybe it really is a problem of vista, have you tried to disable Aero ? Maybe this is the problem (eating too much resources)
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shaq
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007, 03:03:10 pm » |
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im installing vista optimized drivers from nvidia.com, maybe it'll help (i hope so cos if not, my sister will use my comp to play the sims 2 _-_)
if not ill try XP
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Michael
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007, 03:03:38 pm » |
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hahaha, lol.
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shaq
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2007, 03:05:21 pm » |
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not as funny as you think if you sit hours and wait till sister's virtual character will find a boyfriend -.-'
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2007, 03:09:14 pm » |
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lool, buy her an own pc if you have 300 € left hahahah
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shaq
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2007, 03:22:44 pm » |
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oh the topic is about her pc but as i said sims works too slow to make my sister happy  |
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2007, 03:32:14 pm » |
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oh ok, so concentrate all your power to fix her PC |
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shaq
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2007, 03:38:01 pm » |
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looks like i've found the reason - i found in system settings that graphic acceleration was set to "software" :l ill check after installing new software ( i mean drivers, they are installing for ages ;l )
btw. playing the sims 2 is a bit strange for 17 year old woman but ok, i don't care till she doesn't touch my comp :]
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« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2007, 03:51:05 pm » |
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well software rendering is _really_ slow, this has to be the reason
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shaq
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« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2007, 03:52:55 pm » |
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oh i like it now anniversary work 90fps + on highest details! tanx for help!
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« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2007, 05:17:29 pm » |
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jeffrey
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« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2008, 01:38:33 pm » |
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keep in mind openGL is 40% slower in vista then xp.
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