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06-14-2008, 01:08 PM
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What's My Bottleneck?
Most of my games are not limited by my cpu nor my gpu. Usage for both doesn't go over 75% but frame rates are still low. Im thinking it could be my ram but don't know for sure. Heres my specs:
XP pro sp2 + Vista ultimate 32bit intel board P4 3GHz HT 1.5 PC3200 3850 AGP 512Mb 430W Antec Dual 12v 4 HDD's: 1 Sata, 3 Pata All 7200rpm Im planning on getting a pair of 1Gb sticks soon. What do you guys think it is? |
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06-14-2008, 01:10 PM
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What kind of games are you playing?
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06-14-2008, 05:12 PM
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Bioshock, Crysis, COD4, F.E.A.R., Halo 2, Gears of War, NFSC, NFSP....
Also my Paging on those games range from 1Gb to 1.5Gb |
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06-14-2008, 06:59 PM
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Might want a better video card for those games.
And make sure you're not trying to play them at high settings either. |
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06-14-2008, 07:38 PM
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a better vid card? this is the best AGP gets
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06-14-2008, 10:02 PM
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That might just be the best you get then without upgrading mother board, ram, processor, and video card.
Like I said, what settings are you trying to play with? Try lowering them. That should help. Also, try stopping background processes from running while you play. |
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06-14-2008, 10:48 PM
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How full are your harddrives and have you defragged them lately?
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06-15-2008, 02:02 PM
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"Like I said, what settings are you trying to play with? Try lowering them. That should help."
With crysis Im running at med settings and 4xAA. I lowered them to low w/ no AA, but the increase is minimal. Theres some kind of bottle neck still. "How full are your harddrives and have you defragged them lately?" XP drive w/ games is 75% full, other drives are 60%, 40%, 30%, and Pagefile is on another drive. |
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06-15-2008, 05:10 PM
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what else is running in the background?
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06-15-2008, 07:41 PM
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avg antivirus, spybot and thats it
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06-15-2008, 08:50 PM
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Your most likely bottleneck is your processor, most new games have support for dual cores, and the core 2 duo series is a lot faster than P4 even when it's a game that supports single core only.
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06-16-2008, 12:27 AM
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yeah so i guess im stuck till I upgrade. Thanx guys
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