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02-10-2002, 02:44 PM
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game is choppy
I Just got a new computer and my game seems choopy for some reason in single player (playing high end games.)
system specs pentium 4 1.7 GHZ 256MB ECC SDRAM 1 Dimm 32MB ATI Rage Ultra 128 20GB hard drive and Windows XP Proffesional I think its the ram or video card but any help is appreciated. |
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02-10-2002, 02:47 PM
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It's the graphics card. Everything else in that system is top notch, but the card is a little behind the times. I personally like Nvidia based cards better than ATI, but others feel the oposite.
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02-11-2002, 05:13 AM
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I agree with Orcmonkey, get a GForce 2/3 card if you want to play high end games
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02-12-2002, 07:32 PM
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more info
I turned down everything i could to help the video card but it still lags on big maps and in some of the battles.
Any clue? thanks 
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02-12-2002, 07:34 PM
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Make sure your video drivers and you motherboard drivers are up to date. I had this problem in win2k and the new drivers made the games (Medal of Honor etc) run smoothly.
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02-12-2002, 07:42 PM
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The main part of your PC is just fine, which means it must be your video card. By all means try updating the drivers...but if that fails, I would get a better video card. What game are you playing?
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02-12-2002, 07:51 PM
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I have to agree with the majority here, it's the graphics card. Anything less than a Radeon 7500 is sub-par and will run into problems. My reccomendation is to go for either GeForce2 MX400 if your on a tight budget, if you have more to spend, but not much, go for either the GeForce3TI200 or the Radeon 8500, and if you can afford it, go for the GeForce3TI500.
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02-12-2002, 07:52 PM
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I would agree with the GeForce II! That will certainly kick some.
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02-13-2002, 09:07 AM
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Im mainly playing Return to castle wolfenstein and im grateful for all the reply's I got back I'm going to go get a GE-FORCE 3 Ti 200.
One last Question. Does it matter if i mix SDRAM memory with Video card memory that is DDR. Again thank you for all the reply's
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02-13-2002, 09:11 AM
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The memory on your video card has nothing to do with your system's memory, so getting a vid card with DDR memory will not screw anything up if your system's memory is SDRAM.
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02-14-2002, 11:03 PM
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Choopy Woppy
When I was running XP I installed my geforce 2 MX 200 and I let it use the drivers built into windows and tryed a game out it was choppy woppy smoppy so I installed XP Detornator drivers and it was smooth as so if you upgrade your drivers it should fix it does the choppyness seem different than jerkyness Like i noticed when running a game that was too good for the system whenever the grafics chopped the sound did too but with the driver choppyness it was just the video that chopped
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