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| Levels-4-You : Lounge : PC Performance Problem! |
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| tagmaster |
  Posted 28th Jun 2005 3:25am |
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Plz dudes of l4u help me, I got a serius troble on my machine, dont know how to fix it so plz help me.
Ill explain you the thing, I got a mid-high end computer but dont know wats wrong whit it, it starts when i run a game the game run smooth but with slowdowns that should not be! this slowdowns i dont understand them they are ramdom and unjustified, so plz tell whats my piece of harware thats stoping me or software thats creating this problem, or recomend me some upgrades or software that might fix this slowdowns.
Specs in here:
-Pentium Celeron 2.6Ghz Processor (Socket 478, When gaming it runs at normal voltage and average 42Cº Temperature, No Overclocking, Cooling method Disipator/Thermal Paste n Fan Cooler)
-256DDR PC2700 333Ghz x 2 (512 Total)
-MSI Nvidia GeForce FX 5200LE 128MB AGP8X with D.O.T.(Drivers: zer0point drivers 0.7644 tweaked driver from Forceware 76.44 http://www.dhzeropoint.net/, Running at normal Temperature on gaming, No overclocking, Cooling method: disipator)
-Motherboard Biostar P4 Series U8668D Ver. 7-A (Default Award winning BIOS)
-HD 40GB (File system: NTFS, ST340014A)
-Windows XP Professional Edition with SP2 |
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| Pickles |
Posted 28th Jun 2005 4:45am |
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What game is it?
If it's Halo, you're CENSORED . It likes some PC's, hates others. My PC has much better specs than your's, runs all the recent games like a dream, and averages 15 FPS in Halo, which is nothing compared to the recent games. Just doesn't like my computer... nothing you can do about it.  |
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sobe  |
Posted 28th Jun 2005 11:21pm |
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#1, get a better vid card around $100 at least.
#2, WinXP SP2 has issues with some applications. Take for example 16-bit applications, without SP2 I can run them, but with SP2 I can't...... I dunno really, but I would really suggest you upgrade your vid card.
The core clock of your card is 250MHz, memory clock is 400MHz. But you have 128MB on it. Find a good 128MB card.
MSI NX6200AX-TD128 Geforce 6200 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X
Leadtek Geforce 6200 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X
Those are some cheap decent cards.... |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 30th Jun 2005 10:14pm |  |
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| Quoting Pickles | What game is it?
If it's Halo, you're CENSORED . It likes some PC's, hates others. My PC has much better specs than your's, runs all the recent games like a dream, and averages 15 FPS in Halo, which is nothing compared to the recent games. Just doesn't like my computer... nothing you can do about it. |
I had some trouble with Halo.
My Harddrive was accesing something while playing the game all the time, and that was lagging the game. I don't know if this is normal..the LED flickers when the computer is on. (Not like a warning signlar..its more a randomly flickering and it's very short)
I have then put my soundcard in the computer, and it worked..don't ask me why. Maybe some mainboard drivers were wrong.
Strange enough, Halo now works again with no problems and with the onboard soundchip (old computer needs the soundcard).
You may have changed some stuff on Windows. For example you should not activate the "Improve Core Performance" setting for your RAM. (Halo didn't start the levels then.
Take a look on the LED of your HDD. If it goes on while you notice that slow down, you know what causes the lag.
Any running background programs may also slow it down... run msconfig and deactivate some startup programs |
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| sobe |
Posted 30th Jun 2005 10:48pm |
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That may work as well, do you not have any external programs running while running HaloPC/ce?
Oh and REDFROG, what if we don't have a HDD light to shine for us?! 
I just trust my HDD, and if they go out I will never forgive them |
| "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006 |
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| hatake_kakashi |
Posted 1st Jul 2005 6:25pm |
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I would second what RedFrog mentioned, but personally speaking, I would kill off unecessary programs running in the background before I attempt to do anything big, because it would cause the computer to lag thus crash if you put unecessary loads on a windows box |
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