totally confused & disappointed

Muso · 12 May 2006 at 12:30

I recently bought a new machine as advised by people on here.

its an AMD X2 4400, 2 gig DDR gkill ram, a ultra DFI lanparty mobo, and a 1900XT 512 meg graphics card.

Anyway my issue is with the poor performance in games, I thought this thing would fly. I was advised to buy a widescreen monitor because apparently they are best for gaming. As it is TFT you have to run it at its native res which is 1680 x 1050. Now Im thinking to run games at this res this is whats killing the pc. yes I can run games but they jerk a fair bit and forget about playing FPS games.

I'm considering getting a smaller monitor with lower res to resolve the problem, or should i be ok with it as it is? I have latest nforce 4 drivers, and dual core driver, everything is bang up to date. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

SiriusB · 12 May 2006 at 12:32

Are you sure its not due to game having an issue with a dual core cpu?

Try setting the affinity of your game .exes to just one core and try again.

SiriusB

vanandjuanunited · 12 May 2006 at 12:34

As above it looks like you will need the dual core fix.

Muso · 12 May 2006 at 13:19

Hi chaps thanks for the reply

I play guild wars, Oblivion, quake 3 and battlefield 1942 I have no idea how to set exe to use one core? Oblivion is a bit of a shocker as i thought it used dual cores.

Any ideas where to get this dual core fix?

Wyvern971 · 12 May 2006 at 13:39

Start the game, then open task manager, under processes find the game process, right click it and use "select affinity"

SiriusB · 12 May 2006 at 13:40

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=983781

Should be all the info you need

SiriusB

fornowagain · 12 May 2006 at 13:56

Your rig should be fine at that res.

The OCUK dual core fix thread

AceCard · 12 May 2006 at 13:59

Muso said:
I recently bought a new machine as advised by people on here.

its an AMD X2 4400, 2 gig DDR gkill ram, a ultra DFI lanparty mobo, and a 1900XT 512 meg graphics card.

Anyway my issue is with the poor performance in games, I thought this thing would fly. I was advised to buy a widescreen monitor because apparently they are best for gaming. As it is TFT you have to run it at its native res which is 1680 x 1050. Now Im thinking to run games at this res this is whats killing the pc. yes I can run games but they jerk a fair bit and forget about playing FPS games.

I'm considering getting a smaller monitor with lower res to resolve the problem, or should i be ok with it as it is? I have latest nforce 4 drivers, and dual core driver, everything is bang up to date. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

tbh for the money, dual cores are only beneficial to about 3 games.

have my san diego 3700+ at fx-57 and it pretty much storms current games at any res(with a top end gpu).

with next gen cores and games around the corner(that will take advantage of the technology) its a bad time to buy current crop of dual cores..........IMO

trojan698 · 12 May 2006 at 14:34

AceCard said:
tbh for the money, dual cores are only beneficial to about 3 games.

have my san diego 3700+ at fx-57 and it pretty much storms current games at any res(with a top end gpu).

with next gen cores and games around the corner(that will take advantage of the technology) its a bad time to buy current crop of dual cores..........IMO

Agreed, for gaming.

Phil99 · 12 May 2006 at 14:42

I assume you have the nVidia chipset drivers along with the ATi graphics drivers installed?

Muso · 12 May 2006 at 15:25

yes i have the latest drivers

AFK_Matrix · 12 May 2006 at 16:46

Yeah must be something to do with your dual cores as the computer in my sig plays games fine at 1920x1200. Admitedly I don't wack them all up to full graphics but on Oblivion I did and had no probs with it.

Muso · 15 May 2006 at 16:54

Matrix what did you have to do to get it sorted or was it find out of the box?