I just picked up Age of Empires 3 and noticed that it is extremely choppy on my system so I started doing some investigating. I have never noticed a problem before.
I ran 3DMark05 on the system and got a 3D benchmark of *shudder* 246. Other comparable systems are getting well over 4000. I tried a clean boot with absolutely nothing running, and same story.
I have 512MB of PC3200 DDR, and a GeForce FX 5200 with 128MB.
I ran dxdiag - everything checks out ok. I checked for spyware - nothing. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing such an awful benchmark, choppy games, etc? It seems that my system should be able to handle them. Any kind of diagnostic software I should try running?
Thanks in advance!
I ran 3DMark05 on the system and got a 3D benchmark of *shudder* 246. Other comparable systems are getting well over 4000. I tried a clean boot with absolutely nothing running, and same story.
I have 512MB of PC3200 DDR, and a GeForce FX 5200 with 128MB.
I ran dxdiag - everything checks out ok. I checked for spyware - nothing. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing such an awful benchmark, choppy games, etc? It seems that my system should be able to handle them. Any kind of diagnostic software I should try running?
Thanks in advance!