any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
i'll get back asap with any updates.
First off - Personal home built PC specs
OS - Win 7
Motherboard - Asus m4a79xtd evo
CPU - AMD dual core 3.2Ghrz
Case - NZCT Blackline
PCU - TX-650W
Graphics Card - Power Color gfx card - HD-4650
RAM - G-Skill ram - 10 gigs total - 1333 DDR3,
OS running off 500gig 3gbps
ummm I don't think im missing anything else?
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Ok, haven't done a whole lot of gaming just yet,
I plan on upgrading my Graphics card soon to something hefty b4 i do,
but with everything else I feel like my system should be handling
things a bit better. The only game I'm playing now is the sims 3.
I have just about every game to-date installed
-other the outdoor living stuff.
up until I put this card in about a few weeks ago my
system - cpu - hdd - would never get above 38C.
now when I play the sims - although the graphics look a lot better and
it runs more smoothly(?), my card burns up to 48c. the rest stays around
25-34 or something like that - bare in mind im reading these numbers
off of the monitor that comes attached to the NZXT blackline case.
Now, the sims 3 isn't a very high-end game, but it does have / hold
a lot of information - you know with all the items and expansions I have.
and I've been trying to top the game out. (do everything with 1 family)
On top of the heat increase - which I'm guessing to be due to
having a better card - is the longer I play the more lag I get.
graphics move still, water etc. characters, actions and game time freeze)
sometimes the game even crashes - only on loading screens.
this only just started happening - when I installed a large update
of items.
The card also seems to get hotter and hotter - topping at 48c -
that i've seen.
is this due to poor programming of the games part? or to much info?
I have heard some people complaining about similar problems
with high end gaming systems. But no one with 10 gigs of ram.
I feel like all that ram should comp out any overload of memory
the game might try to utilize, but maybe this leads back to my mobo?
or my cpu somehow? perhaps my hdd needs some kind of speed upgrade
to fight w/e the the sims is doing wrong.
or maybe my graphics card sucks?
any thoughts?
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other notes -
1.
my dxdiag says I have direct x 11
but the card says it only supports 10.1 ...problem?
2.
I've tryed to turn down the graphics in the game to help the lag.
in fact, the graphics don't go down that much. it's impossible
for me to get the game to look as bad as it did b4 I got this new card.
perhaps thats just the driver settings I have set up?
or the fact thats it better. - stupid question but putting
the graphics on low didn't seem to do much -
i'll get back asap with any updates.
First off - Personal home built PC specs
OS - Win 7
Motherboard - Asus m4a79xtd evo
CPU - AMD dual core 3.2Ghrz
Case - NZCT Blackline
PCU - TX-650W
Graphics Card - Power Color gfx card - HD-4650
RAM - G-Skill ram - 10 gigs total - 1333 DDR3,
OS running off 500gig 3gbps
ummm I don't think im missing anything else?
----------------------------------------
Ok, haven't done a whole lot of gaming just yet,
I plan on upgrading my Graphics card soon to something hefty b4 i do,
but with everything else I feel like my system should be handling
things a bit better. The only game I'm playing now is the sims 3.
I have just about every game to-date installed
-other the outdoor living stuff.
up until I put this card in about a few weeks ago my
system - cpu - hdd - would never get above 38C.
now when I play the sims - although the graphics look a lot better and
it runs more smoothly(?), my card burns up to 48c. the rest stays around
25-34 or something like that - bare in mind im reading these numbers
off of the monitor that comes attached to the NZXT blackline case.
Now, the sims 3 isn't a very high-end game, but it does have / hold
a lot of information - you know with all the items and expansions I have.
and I've been trying to top the game out. (do everything with 1 family)
On top of the heat increase - which I'm guessing to be due to
having a better card - is the longer I play the more lag I get.
graphics move still, water etc. characters, actions and game time freeze)
sometimes the game even crashes - only on loading screens.
this only just started happening - when I installed a large update
of items.
The card also seems to get hotter and hotter - topping at 48c -
that i've seen.
is this due to poor programming of the games part? or to much info?
I have heard some people complaining about similar problems
with high end gaming systems. But no one with 10 gigs of ram.
I feel like all that ram should comp out any overload of memory
the game might try to utilize, but maybe this leads back to my mobo?
or my cpu somehow? perhaps my hdd needs some kind of speed upgrade
to fight w/e the the sims is doing wrong.
or maybe my graphics card sucks?
any thoughts?
-----------------------------------------------
other notes -
1.
my dxdiag says I have direct x 11
but the card says it only supports 10.1 ...problem?
2.
I've tryed to turn down the graphics in the game to help the lag.
in fact, the graphics don't go down that much. it's impossible
for me to get the game to look as bad as it did b4 I got this new card.
perhaps thats just the driver settings I have set up?
or the fact thats it better. - stupid question but putting
the graphics on low didn't seem to do much -
