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Article #474Re: Just got a CLAP
From: Zeppo
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 04:37
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 04:37
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I'd have to say your CPU and memory are causing a bottleneck. Adding that other 64 megs back in would certainly help, but you should also consider a faster CPU. You can pick up a 366 Celeron for $60 and OC to 550 (assuming this is a good time to spend money, of course). Unless you have a ton of drives and cards the 230W supply should be ok. Jon Salvaje <msawyer@cramitspammers.door.net> wrote in message news:salitfqm2pd177@corp.supernews.com... > Installation went fine, & no 2d problems. Games, however, are running very > poorly in both D3D & OpenGL - lots of stuttering, halting, poor framerate. > No lockups or bluescreens so far. > > Here are my specs: > > P2 266 MMX > Asus P3B-F mobo w/ AGP voltage set to 3.65 > 64 mb ram (usu. it's 128, but that's another story ;-) > Win. 98 SE > DirectX 7.0a > CL drivers supplied w/ card (I know there are other drivers; I just want to > get it running & stable before I try tweaking anything) > > One more thing: my power supply is 230 watt. Could this be the problem? I > figured that if the power supply was too weak it would just crash, not give > bad game performance. > > The problem has occurred in everything I've run so far, except the GeForce > demos. (Don't have the processor to run the Dmzg disc). I've tried Wheel > of Time demo, Need for Speed H.S., Darkstone & Torment. All behave the same > way. > > I figure it's either the drivers or the power supply, but I'm not > sure....shouldn't the provided drivers run at least *some* games? > > Thanks, > > mike > > >
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