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Methinks your definition of runs OK and ours are different. XP is D-O-G
S-L-O-W with 128MB of memory. Always has been. It isn't enough RAM despite
your claims.
HH
"Ginchy" <avmaster@BBBBBbtinternet.com> wrote in message
news:d2sb08$4dt$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> No I know what the difference is.
>
> There is 16mb of video memory and 128mb of RAM in the system and that is
> enough to run basic screensavers and games!
>
> I have run UNREAL on a P2 450 with xp pro 16mb PCI and 128mb of ram NO
> PROBLEM WHATSOEVER
>
>
> "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
> news:kd94e.43444$Fz.24908@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>> You seem to be confusing video memory and system memory, or just using
> them
>> interchangeably which is wrong.
>>
>> 128MB of video memory is plenty.
>> 128MB of system memory is not.
>>
>> Tom
>> "Ginchy" <avmaster@BBBBBbtinternet.com> wrote in message
>> news:d2n8pk$d06$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
>> > Guys I know what you are saying in that for general use 128mb isnt a
>> > lot
>> > but
>> > I have built at least 6 machines all around p450 p500 p550 and P600 and
>> > ALL
>> > of them run perfectly with 128mb ram.
>> >
>> > In fact I was playing unreal on a p2 350 with a 16mb pci graphics card
> all
>> > on xp pro and it ran perfectly!
>> >
>> > I m talking about a stutter on the most BASIC of graphics like the
> dxdiag
>> > test or the simplest of screensavers.
>> >
>> > The company I got the machine from are getting the same problem with
> 256mb
>> > of ram but they report that the other machines they have which are P3
>> > 533mhz
>> > do not display the fault. (different mb?)
>> >
>> > The board is supposed to be either the 810 or 815 chipset but the intel
>> > grahics driver fails to install duue to some "software conflict" but
> there
>> > is nothing in the machine except the bare xp
>> >
>> > None of us can work it out!
>> >
>> >
>> > <ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>> > news:424e2f15.4616420@nntp.charter.net...
>> >> 128MB is inadequate for XP, but then the performance is worsened by a
>> > slower
>> >> 733MHz processor. I have attempted to use XP on new 2+GHz P4 systems
>> >> with
>> > only
>> >> the original factory-installed(!) 128MB, and the performance stinks.
>> >> I
>> > can't
>> >> imagine how it could even be useful with a 733 and 128MB... Ben Myers
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:07:25 -0500, "HH" <hahunt42@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >128MB of RAM is insufficient for XP. add at least 256MB more and the
>> > video
>> >> >pereformance will improve.
>> >> >HH
>> >> >
>> >> >"Ginchy" <avmaster@BBBBBbtinternet.com> wrote in message
>> >> >news:d2js1r$hkk$1@titan.btinternet.com...
>> >> >>I bought a deskpro P3 733mhz with 16mb onboard agp graphics 128mb
> ram.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I am running xp pro on it but the graphics stutter. Thinking that
> the
>> >> >> onboard vga was not up to the job I installed a TNT2 M64 16mb PCI
> card
>> > but
>> >> >> get the same thing. If you run dxdiag it shows the bouncing square
>> >> >> stuttering every few seconds.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Anyone know of a fix for this? I checked the hard drive and its
>> >> >> running
>> > in
>> >> >> dma mode 5 so no problem there!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The people I bought it from have recreated this fault on their
>> > remaining
>> >> >> machines so its not my own machine that is faulty. They cant seem
>> >> >> to
>> > find
>> >> >> an
>> >> >> answer either but my own guess is that the chipset drivers need
>> > something?
>> >> >>
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