I'm a bit noobish at all of this. I actually don't know any good programs which I could use to measure my GPU's usage.
I have Pentium dual core E 6500 @ 2.93GH, 3g DDR3, 480g ata HDD. I assume everything else is irrelevant.
I'm a gamer for a very, very long time and I could tell when the game is running smooth with 40-60+ FPS and off course when its lower than 30 FPS.
I've downloaded some benchmark program and tested it out on 1440x900 with almost every feature turned on, with the results of min:7 fps and average: 12fps.
After that I even lowered for about 20% of the benchmark quality test and the results were even worse.
The graphic card is my brother's, he was using it for about 2-3 years. He played crysis 1. and he did it on high-very high quality(considering that there is ultra high option as well) and told me that he had decent-smooth game. He has a widescreen so i would say it was 1440x900 resolution.
After reading dozens of posts here, i noticed how one should delete all previous graphic drivers before installing the new ones. Since with the previous graphic card I had allot better performance before i installed the new drivers. After that, every game that I've played before was running worse, and it was pretty much worse.
So I found some program "driver sweeper" and cleaned most of the drivers, couldnt clean 3 out of 20 or more. Anyhow I installed the new drivers again and tried it out on "homefront" and with 1440x900 and most of the things are on medium or turned off, its hardly 20fps.
If you could tell me some of the better programs that will show more precise results, I'll Google it/test my gpu and post the results so you could have a better picture of my case.
I'm really sorry for this long a.. post, didn't know how to explain my situation differently.
Thanks again for your time,
Regards