ti4200 slow 2d performance..

[rotarypot]

hi ..

lately, i've notived that the 2d performance on my win98se, 1gh athlon, 512 ram, has been on the decline..

right now for instance i have my firefox browser in which i am writing this, flash, winamp playing, msn , pretty normal stuff..

and the 2d performance is sucky at best, if for instance, i drag winamp around the screen, it leaves an ugly trail behind it, it gets refreshed out, but still..
same thing even with no applications running

i dont remember it doing that when i first installed the ti4200...

right now i am at the latest drivers from nvidia, directx 8.1 -i havent gone to 9 because i read somewhere reputable that the ti4200 doesn't really benefit from anything more than directx 8.1

i also reinstalled win98se last night, to no avail..
look at the pic........that is NOT RIGHT.


thanks .!!!

 

[heavywx]

It's not your video card causing the problem. I'd run adaware and clean out all your junk files. Preform a defrag and see if that helps. All that stuff you have open in your desktop is putting a serious drag on your cpu. I'd suggest a cpu upgrade if the cleaning dosen't help any. Also open msconfig and shut down anything thats not needed under the startup tab.

 

[rotarypot]

mmmmmm, funny,
i actually just did the ad aware thing AND the Spybot thing..

same results...

and like i said before...those things did not happen before..the trails and such ..

 

[Wall7486]

Is probably your virtual memory. To my knowledge, that has nothing to do with your video card. It seems like your computer is low on virtual memory, and there's a lot of junk on your hard drive.

 

[rotarypot]

mmmmmm, ok..

the settings for virtual memory are managed by windoze, and the drive has 8 gb left out of the 15 gb partition..

i will try the de-frag, and see what happens..

BTW , the specs are..

1ghz athlon, 512 ram, 80 gb drive, 2 partitions (15gb and 65 gb)

 

[rotarypot]

nope....no luck....same results...

 

[jolancer]

did u ctl+alt+delete and watch and see witch program or process is hoggin all the mem or cpu when u drag winamp or whatever?

EDIT: o yea your on win98... i dont know if it shows that stuff in win98

 

[rotarypot]

yes i did ...unless it was flash mx, or msn messenger..
there are no other hogs running..

i try to keep a lean system..

right now the computer is owrking and i am able to do the usual stuff i do but the trailing becomes annoying ...