jimbo
02-11-2004, 10:04 AM
Hi all,
I was hoping to get some help with problems with video memory, I have recently upgraded my PC to an AMD athlon XP 2500, DFI Lanparty motherboard, 764 megs of ram, and a geforece fx 5200. I feel its a pretty decent machine and the motherboard can support up to 8x agp etc. However I have been experiencing problems when running games, I am gettig very strange graphics effects problems, i can only describe it as like polygons overlapping on the screen. Anyhow I have downloaded the latest drivier from nvidia and direct x 9b, but I still get the same problems, it loads up the game and then about 5 minutes into the game the weird effects begin to happen. Anyhow I have ran a freeware benchmark software called 3D Mark 2003 from a company called futureware. The tests fail saying that theres not enough video memory. I am mystified as to what the problem might be, I have checked my BIOS and AGP is enabled, I havent looked to over clock anything, everything has been left at its optimal settings. I am suspecting something is not quite right with the AGP port, originally i thought it was the card ( i did have a geforce mx 420), so i went out and brought this 5200 but it has made no difference. Is there anything i can check to ensure that the sAGP port is working ie something in windows? Thanks for your help.
I was hoping to get some help with problems with video memory, I have recently upgraded my PC to an AMD athlon XP 2500, DFI Lanparty motherboard, 764 megs of ram, and a geforece fx 5200. I feel its a pretty decent machine and the motherboard can support up to 8x agp etc. However I have been experiencing problems when running games, I am gettig very strange graphics effects problems, i can only describe it as like polygons overlapping on the screen. Anyhow I have downloaded the latest drivier from nvidia and direct x 9b, but I still get the same problems, it loads up the game and then about 5 minutes into the game the weird effects begin to happen. Anyhow I have ran a freeware benchmark software called 3D Mark 2003 from a company called futureware. The tests fail saying that theres not enough video memory. I am mystified as to what the problem might be, I have checked my BIOS and AGP is enabled, I havent looked to over clock anything, everything has been left at its optimal settings. I am suspecting something is not quite right with the AGP port, originally i thought it was the card ( i did have a geforce mx 420), so i went out and brought this 5200 but it has made no difference. Is there anything i can check to ensure that the sAGP port is working ie something in windows? Thanks for your help.