Hello Everyone,
You must get 1000's of these every month haha but I need to ask this. My desktop system is just outright performing terriable in games, from vice city to ffxionline.com. When I ran 3dsmark2001 on it (1024x768, D3D Pure Hardware, compresses textures, antialasing: none) I got the very low score of: 5600. I really think that should be higher!
Now this system isn't too bad so I figure i should get higher. The system specs are:
[Custom Built by me]
Athlon XP 1900+ (1.5 I believe, not overclocked)
512MB 1 DIMM DDR Ram
Geforce 4 ti4200 128MB DDR Ram (AGP 4x)
Windows XP Pro SP1 (With latest service packs)
Direct X 9.0b
K7S5A Motherboard
Geforce driver version: 4.4.04 (44.03 I believe) by NVIDIA (Not Digitally signed)
And system running very cool... maybe overclock it?
I'm thinking that it might be my drivers (what version should I upgrade to?), or probaly more my programs that I have running at startup. Anyone know of a really good website that has a huge list of programs at startup, tells what they do, and if you need it or not? I really want to improve my score, also, what would you guys think if the next thing worth upgrading on this machine? Or is this machine too old, and it's time to retire? Also, what resolution should I be able to play Vice City at smoothly, once I've done everything that everyone suggests?
Thanks, and any infomaton would help.
-lieb39
You must get 1000's of these every month haha but I need to ask this. My desktop system is just outright performing terriable in games, from vice city to ffxionline.com. When I ran 3dsmark2001 on it (1024x768, D3D Pure Hardware, compresses textures, antialasing: none) I got the very low score of: 5600. I really think that should be higher!
Now this system isn't too bad so I figure i should get higher. The system specs are:
[Custom Built by me]
Athlon XP 1900+ (1.5 I believe, not overclocked)
512MB 1 DIMM DDR Ram
Geforce 4 ti4200 128MB DDR Ram (AGP 4x)
Windows XP Pro SP1 (With latest service packs)
Direct X 9.0b
K7S5A Motherboard
Geforce driver version: 4.4.04 (44.03 I believe) by NVIDIA (Not Digitally signed)
And system running very cool... maybe overclock it?
I'm thinking that it might be my drivers (what version should I upgrade to?), or probaly more my programs that I have running at startup. Anyone know of a really good website that has a huge list of programs at startup, tells what they do, and if you need it or not? I really want to improve my score, also, what would you guys think if the next thing worth upgrading on this machine? Or is this machine too old, and it's time to retire? Also, what resolution should I be able to play Vice City at smoothly, once I've done everything that everyone suggests?
Thanks, and any infomaton would help.
-lieb39