OrbitzXT
11-27-2006, 07:46 PM
Hi everyone, this phenomenon has recently grabbed my attention while playing my newest game, Company of Heroes. With maximum settings turned up on 1280x1024 resolution it runs fine while the camera is angled at it's default position looking down on the battlefield. However when you zoom in and rotate the camera around it gets very choppy. So I'm trying to think to myself, which piece of hardware is causing this. This is my system:
P4 3.46 GHz EE LGA775 (Cooled nicely with a Zalman copper heatsink/fan)
2 GB Geil DDR2667 PC2 5300
Asus P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard
ATI Radeon 1800XT PCI-E
ATI HDTV Tuner Card
250 GB WD SATA HD, 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache
Rosewill 600W Powersupply
Turning the graphics down does not really improve the choppyness while rotating. There are some other games I play as well that run smooth as silk, but at some points in the game it will begin to become choppy. I had thought it was my old video card, an ATI Radeon X800XTX, which I upgraded to the 1800XT. There were some improvements but it didn't really get rid of the specific problems I hoped to.
How does one go about diagnosing a bottleneck problem? Are there good ways to figure out what piece of hardware is slowing you down? I read an article saying Vista Ultimate Edition will have a program to be able to figure this kind of thing out. But until I shell out $400 on an Ultimate Edition in January, how do I figure out my problems now?
P4 3.46 GHz EE LGA775 (Cooled nicely with a Zalman copper heatsink/fan)
2 GB Geil DDR2667 PC2 5300
Asus P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard
ATI Radeon 1800XT PCI-E
ATI HDTV Tuner Card
250 GB WD SATA HD, 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache
Rosewill 600W Powersupply
Turning the graphics down does not really improve the choppyness while rotating. There are some other games I play as well that run smooth as silk, but at some points in the game it will begin to become choppy. I had thought it was my old video card, an ATI Radeon X800XTX, which I upgraded to the 1800XT. There were some improvements but it didn't really get rid of the specific problems I hoped to.
How does one go about diagnosing a bottleneck problem? Are there good ways to figure out what piece of hardware is slowing you down? I read an article saying Vista Ultimate Edition will have a program to be able to figure this kind of thing out. But until I shell out $400 on an Ultimate Edition in January, how do I figure out my problems now?