Hey guys i've posted this thread a couple times but i haven't been able to really get anything fixed.
I'm running a 2.6 pentium 4, with a 128 mb GeForce 5200 fx, Soundblaster live, with 512 mb of Ram. Its a dell model if that means anything with xp.
i've noticed a very horrenduous slowdown in the graphics of all my games. Its not just halo, but minor games like big game hunter (just to test), and counterstrike. Unless i run slowest setting on CS it works but the rest of my games won't work even with the lowest setting possible. Heres everything i've done.
Reseated the card
dled all the drivers, uninstalled them and reinstalled them.
made sure no applications were running in background
defraged and scanned
i cleaned up my registry
i called tech support and got a new card but i'm still having the same problems
i've talked to numerous tech support people but as soon as i tell them its about game problem they hang up, as if computers aren't supposed to be used for games. I receive very little help because Dell won't support games even if i bought my machine for that very purpose.
If anyone knows anything that could help i'd love any feedback.
P.S. I read in another forum you should make sure the bios setting is set to the right AGP speed. I checked my BIOS for this but only noticed it was set to agp or pci which it was AGP already set. My card is AGP 8x. IN the bios it said video buffer overrun was only 1mb. Should i change that to 8mb ?
I'm running a 2.6 pentium 4, with a 128 mb GeForce 5200 fx, Soundblaster live, with 512 mb of Ram. Its a dell model if that means anything with xp.
i've noticed a very horrenduous slowdown in the graphics of all my games. Its not just halo, but minor games like big game hunter (just to test), and counterstrike. Unless i run slowest setting on CS it works but the rest of my games won't work even with the lowest setting possible. Heres everything i've done.
Reseated the card
dled all the drivers, uninstalled them and reinstalled them.
made sure no applications were running in background
defraged and scanned
i cleaned up my registry
i called tech support and got a new card but i'm still having the same problems
i've talked to numerous tech support people but as soon as i tell them its about game problem they hang up, as if computers aren't supposed to be used for games. I receive very little help because Dell won't support games even if i bought my machine for that very purpose.
If anyone knows anything that could help i'd love any feedback.
P.S. I read in another forum you should make sure the bios setting is set to the right AGP speed. I checked my BIOS for this but only noticed it was set to agp or pci which it was AGP already set. My card is AGP 8x. IN the bios it said video buffer overrun was only 1mb. Should i change that to 8mb ?