Where is the bottleneck?

[Guest]

My system is the following:

P3 800 @ 992
192 MB RAM
Creative GeForce 2 GTS 32 MB
ABit BE6

The problem I am having is that I get choppy game performance in so many games. This is regardless of v-sync being on or off, and regardless of resolution. 320 resolution performs the same as 1280 resolution, so I feel that something could be holding the video card back.
I recently put in my old P2 350, and discovered that the loss of framerates was not as big as I expected. Plus I have tried a different motherboard, different memory (Crucial), and have taken all peripherals out. None of these steps helped.
In Midtown Madness 2 demo, having TnL on or off makes makes little difference to performance.
So I believe the problem to be elsewhere - but where?
Any ideas anyone?

 

[Guest]

try fall back the FSB to 100Mhz.(i guess your p3 800=8x100)
maybe the timing is not good for your bx board.

and also try the NV det.3 driver instead of the Creative one.

good luck

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[Guest]

Have previously done all that you suggested - no help I am afraid.

 

[Guest]

do you have two memory dimms.. maybe the timing between the two is causing the problems ?
Yuo should try it wityh only the 128 mb dimm



Hey man i dont know .. i just think i do !!

 

[Guest]

I got a single of chunk of Crucial 256 MB memory instead, which did not help, I'm afraid.

 

[Guest]

If you have a VIA chipset, make sure that you are running the latest 4in1 drivers.

 

[smn198]

Try doing a clean install of the OS followed by the nessisary drivers on a different HDD.

 

[Take_Out]

Install the newest drivers from Msoft, DX7 I think. Good Luck, Take-Out.

 

[Shvarz]

Check that your hard drive is not running in some DOS-compatibility mode, that would really slow your system down. BTW when was the last time you defragmented it? What are your settings for swap file and what games are laggy?

 

[Guest]

i think your BX board can't feed the GF2 with enough power.
can you take the card to test on your friend's box?

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[Raistlin]

I think it is because windows is resizing your swap file my friends athlon 650 had this problem with diablo 2
set the swap file under performance (rt click my computer, properties)
set it to 300meg min 300meg max
and windows wont resize it making your game studder.
also defrag hdd after this is done and you have rebooted