visualchaosfx
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Ok here are my system specs:
Compaq Presario SR1738NX
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+
2 GB of Ram
200 GB Hard drive
Graphics card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series (Onboard card)
Audio is a Realtek AC'97 (Onboard audio)
I am attempting to play Rome Total War. Now this isn't the first time I've played RTW on this machine. But I know that 6 months ago when I played the game, I had no audio or fps problems. Now I do.
When you start up RTW it goes through that intro video before you get to the main menu. The audio stutters or lags kinda like watching a streaming video. Once you get to the main menu there's animation that plays in the background and before it played smooth. Now it lags a little bit.
So I figured ok maybe the onboard graphics card is beginning to go. So I got me a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS PCI-E graphics card. Uninstalled the old drivers and installed the new card and its drivers. You would think that a new graphics card would change things.
Nope
It stayed the same. But then I was thinking ok I need more ram. So today I just got me an additional 1 gb of ram and I installed it.
Nope
No change whats so ever. So I got pissed and uninstalled the new graphics card and went back to using the onboard graphics card.
What the hell is wrong with my machine???
Compaq Presario SR1738NX
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+
2 GB of Ram
200 GB Hard drive
Graphics card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series (Onboard card)
Audio is a Realtek AC'97 (Onboard audio)
I am attempting to play Rome Total War. Now this isn't the first time I've played RTW on this machine. But I know that 6 months ago when I played the game, I had no audio or fps problems. Now I do.
When you start up RTW it goes through that intro video before you get to the main menu. The audio stutters or lags kinda like watching a streaming video. Once you get to the main menu there's animation that plays in the background and before it played smooth. Now it lags a little bit.
So I figured ok maybe the onboard graphics card is beginning to go. So I got me a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS PCI-E graphics card. Uninstalled the old drivers and installed the new card and its drivers. You would think that a new graphics card would change things.
Nope
It stayed the same. But then I was thinking ok I need more ram. So today I just got me an additional 1 gb of ram and I installed it.
Nope
No change whats so ever. So I got pissed and uninstalled the new graphics card and went back to using the onboard graphics card.
What the hell is wrong with my machine???
