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Old 05-12-2002, 02:35 PM
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please help I have a t200 siluro gforce 32meg video card. It locks in full acceleration setting. I downloaded drivers from nvida and siluro web site no change. my system is k6-2/400 128ram os win98se. please help I just got dungeon siege and I can,t play it with out my computer locking up.
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Old 05-12-2002, 04:40 PM
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First, welcome to the ! tony o

Next, that K6-2 is your main problem-the newer Geforce cards really depend upon a powerful CPU for best performance { around 600mhz > }, you're puting a lot of strain on your system with that particular combination.

Go into your hardware accleration settings and reduce it by a notch-play your game for awhile and see if that helps. If not keep reducing the acceleration by a notch until it's stable.

Unfortunately, in your case the only real solution is an upgrade to an Athlon or P III CPU. The k6-2 just doesn't have the FSB, cache settings nor instruction set to be able to adequately handle the Geforce 3 > greater cards. They were designed with Athlon/P III 's in mind, not the old P II/K6-2 series.



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Old 05-18-2002, 11:06 PM
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I was afraid someone was going to tell me that. right now funds are low so I can,t upgrade , but lowering my settings did help, now if only i could play and use the internet at the same time, as you may have guess i can only play games or turn-off all accerator functions to do other things on my computer. any ideas? It,s a pain to keep shutting down change settings, then reboot.
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