totally confused & disappointed

Muso

Muso

Muso

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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
 
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
 
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?
 
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
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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
 
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
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Agreed, for gaming.
 
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.
 
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