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02-07-2003, 01:54 PM
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The correct way to play games in my PC...
Hello,
I'm not very knowledgeable in PC gaming area so there are some questions I would like to ask.... 1.What processes should I turn off before playing a game? 2.How do you know how many FPS you're getting? 3.How do you upgrade drivers for onboard GPU? 4.How many buttons is enough on a gamepad? that's it for now i'm sure i'll ask more 
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02-07-2003, 02:09 PM
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1. I never turn off anything.
2. That depends on the game. Some games need a cheat to display this. 3. You must go to the mobo's mfgrs web site. 4. I hate gamepads, so I can't answer this question. What kind of games are you gonna play?
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02-07-2003, 02:57 PM
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Nuke,
the game I have are F1 2002,Ghost Recon,Spiderman(not movie),and civilization 3 |
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02-07-2003, 04:00 PM
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If my game lags, I usually turn off my AV and firewall progs. (That is, only in SP mode)
As for a gamepad, it depends on the game. You'll need a smaller amount of buttons if you're playing a racing game, but you'll ned more for a 1st person shoot-'em-up. Personally, I don't care for gamepads. I like using either a joystick and a keyboard (for flying games) or a keyboard and mouse for my shoot-'em-ups. That way I have access to all of my options
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02-07-2003, 04:23 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Hmm, are you playing them now? If so, how do they play? Are you experiencing slowdowns or something like dat?
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02-07-2003, 04:41 PM
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Nuke,
yeah,I've been playing them for sometime now.... in Ghost Recon and Civilization 3 there are no lags what so ever but in F1 2002 I'm getting skippy graphics running at 800x600 32bit 100hz also when you said got to mfgr site,do you mean mobo site or mfgr of the GPU? |
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02-07-2003, 04:44 PM
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The mobo, since your video is integrated.
However I think that you can also find drivers in the nVidia web site. www.nvidia.com |
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02-07-2003, 05:02 PM
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Ok,
I'm downloading the 41.09 drivers from nvidia... Nuke, can you give me a step by step on how to upgrade the drivers? |
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02-07-2003, 05:06 PM
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Just unzip it if you need to, then run setup.exe and it'll tell you what to do.
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02-07-2003, 05:17 PM
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ok I'm not sure I did it right,I extracted the files to the C:WINNT directory,a window appeared saying a nvdia driver is already detected click yes to continue unsitalling these drivers,click no to exit so I could unistall these drivers,I clicked yes and the setup is installing,I click to restart now,when I came back to desktop,screen is in 16bit mode and 800x600,right clicked changed those two to 32bit 1024x768
did I do it right? |
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02-07-2003, 05:25 PM
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Sounds right to me - now reinstall DirectX.
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02-07-2003, 05:26 PM
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1487 in 3Dmark 2k1 SE after
1496 before weird 
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02-07-2003, 05:27 PM
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how do I reinstall DirectX glc?
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02-07-2003, 06:18 PM
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Ok,
is this the correct way to reinstall DirectX? The first time I dl DX8.1,I saved the setup file to the C:\WINNT directory,now I clicked on the setup file again and the setup just fininshed installing... ^sounds right? |
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02-07-2003, 06:40 PM
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ok played F1 2002 for about 4min until it froze and the computer restarted
I'm hating this game more and more everysingle day 
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02-07-2003, 07:40 PM
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Get a new graphics card. A gf4 ti4200 can be had pretty cheap.
What are you getting for cpu temps?
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02-07-2003, 07:48 PM
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Renegade,
I would,I'm just waiting for the money and the price to come down... my CPU temp is at 37degrees celcius from Asus probe,gonna check in BIOS now... |
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02-07-2003, 07:53 PM
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apparently CPU temp is not in BIOS anymore...
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02-07-2003, 08:12 PM
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37C for an XP?? Wow, that's pretty cold.
When you downloaded the drivers from nvidia.com, did u get the nforce drivers? If not get them here: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nforce_udp_winxp_2.03 Uninstall the drivers currently installed first. |
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02-07-2003, 08:16 PM
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renegade,
I installed those drivers at the time this build finished,it came with the Asus cd I have win2k btw... |
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02-07-2003, 08:21 PM
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Ah 2k, xp, same thing. Usually the same driver package for both. I guess nforce is different. Anyway, the ones online should be a lot newer. I would give them a shot.
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02-07-2003, 08:28 PM
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will do...
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02-07-2003, 08:45 PM
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downloaded and installed...
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02-07-2003, 08:48 PM
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can someone please tell me how to reinstall DirectX?The only version I could find on Microsoft's site is the 9.0 one,should I download the 9.0 one?
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02-07-2003, 08:50 PM
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Yes get 9. Just download, install, and reboot.
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02-07-2003, 08:50 PM
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Yup, that is the newest version. You won't find the 8.1 anymore, at least at M$ site.
I'd run first the PC with the old one to see if it runs fine. If you are still having problems then download and install the 9 version. I'm giving this advice because AFAIK you cannot uninstall DX. |
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02-07-2003, 08:56 PM
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Everything seems fine but do I need to reinstall it and if so,how do you reinstall it?
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02-07-2003, 08:58 PM
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also,I understand that when I downloaded those nForce unified dirvers that they were installing graphics drivers,now do I need to download the detonator drivers again?if so which version?
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02-07-2003, 09:02 PM
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The nForce drivers include everything from USB drivers to sound, to gfx. I would uninstall any nvidia drivers (detonators and previous nForce drivers) before installing them. And that's it. I wouldn't install any additional display drivers (detonators)
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02-07-2003, 09:06 PM
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umm,Renegade,
when I installed the nForce drivers,I didn't un-installed anything,just double clicked the icon and the setup went on... here are somethings that changed(noticeably) --nForce APU is no longer in the tray next to clock,now a nForce tray options(Soundstorm) is there --I think my version of Asus probe changed also |
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