What is responsible for choppy graphics?

[mahlerfan]

Hi - I just installed MVP Baseball 2004, and it looks great but the
graphics are a little choppy (dropping frames?), especially when the
ball is in play. Is this due to my video card (I just upgraded to a
128MB nvidia Geforce FX 5700LE) or my CPU (AMD Athlon XP 2400+)?
Thanks!

 

[Scripter]

what kind of ram do you have? and how much?

 

[mahlerfan]

512 MB of PC2100 DDR.

 

[Scripter]

geez man thats weird. i mean sounds like you have more than a decent enough system. you try turning off as many apps as you can before you play the game, so there arent so many of them working in the background?

 

[mahlerfan]

I'm pretty sure I am, but I'll check to be sure. I was thinking my system was good enough too, so I was surprised when I started to see that happening.

 

[ekÆsine]

Did you install your video card drivers for your new hardware? If you have win2k/ XP this is what you should try: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.77

 

[mahlerfan]

Thanks, yeah I installed those drivers after I installed the card.

 

[GameGURU]

Hmm the RAM is a little on the slow side, i dont know anything about this game but i would say since its an 04 game that it has good GFX which also rely alot on system mem for performance in games.

 

[mahlerfan]

Do you mean that the amount of RAM is too small? Or that I would be better off with a different kind of RAM? (you mention PC2700, whereas I have PC2100)

 

[Scripter]

ram can make a big difference, and the games that come out today are just killer on resources. just when you think you have a great enough system you find out its crap.

back in the day when i played NHL 98 or 99 i saw a big difference going from 128megs to 768. no choppy ness at all, well i also had a decent card 2 but i mean just the ram changed it all for me