Slow vram?

[leichaolan]

Not really a huge problem here, more like a performance issue. When playing hardware intensive games, I find that some areas become slightly choppy when I enter them. After spending about 3-5 seconds in the area, everything becomes smooth again. I've got a half decent vid card (geforce2 mx400 64megs) so I'm assuming that the lag is because is caused by things being loaded into the video memory. My question is, is there anything I can do (settings or tweaks) to minimize or elimitate this choppiness? I believe 64 megs is the above average amount of ram on a v card, so how come this still happens?

[diurnal]

im sure you already know this but defraging your drive and updating your video card drivers and chipset drivers might help. Also go into the game options and see if you can drop the resoulution i.e 800x600 to 800x480 or disable some of the lighting features also..

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[Randy_tx]

It probably isn't your vid card causing the problem [64 mb is more than enough for nearly any game out there]...it more likely is your SDRAM or the speed of your processor. If you have a CPU running less than 750 MHZ and the game is one of the very latest out there......then you can blame the CPU rather than vid card. Same with Ram....less than 128 MB ram can result in jerky performance.

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[mjc]

Also what is the amount of physical RAM you are using and is anything runnig in the background while you are palying?


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[leichaolan]

Here are my system specs:

Athlon 750
about 13 gigs of space left
win98se
256megs of ram (pc133), however, I've got another 256meg stick which I don't plug in since it really doesn't give me any performance boost. When using 3d benchmarking tools, the extra 256 actually brings it down a bit. I'm hoping that the ram will be put to better use when/if I get Win XP. And I do not run background stuff when I play newer games.

[iisbob]

First off, randy's on the right track-most of today's vid cards, even low end ones-have more than enough power to handle the various games out there.It is quckily becoming your other system hardware that limits your performance. A geforce 3 needs at least a 600 Pentium or comparable Athlon to perform correctly, and you don't see true performance from it until you get into DDR RAM and over a 1 ghz CPU.

My question is; are you playing these games as multiplayer? if so, it's not your system-it's your connection. Even on broadband a good connection is not gauraunteed, it depends on the server you access and their available bandwith/connection type. Unfortunately in these cases you just have to find another room to play in.

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[ranchdog]

Don't know what type (brand) of RAM you are using but Value RAM and RAM of that nature just can't dance very well. With graphics and games.

Is your GF2 an AGP type card? AGP works best.

Might try this site for some GF2 Q & A. www.geforcefaq.com (http://www.geforcefaq.com) (had to type the link into a web search to make it work)
Luck.

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