Glitchiness

[mdnblaster]

I have a DELL 4600 (2.8GHz, 512MB), 17" LCD (E172FPb), GeForce FX5200 (128MB), SB1024. I am playing some games (not the latest gen, Neverwinter Nights for example) and I notice a lot of glitchiness, game hangups, sound clipping. I cannot figure out what the problem is. I have disabled the background applications I can identify and defragged. Any further ideas or possible things to look at?

 

[Rip the Jacker]

The problem is the Geforce FX5200.

 

[Matthias99]

Drivers?

Absolutely craptastic GeForceFX 5200?

 

[ts3433]

Originally posted by: ItmPls
The problem is the Geforce FX5200.

That's one contributor to a crappy gaming experience, but the 512MB of memory in your system will also limit you. Less than a gig can cause stuttering, which is caused by the game having to swap to the hard drive's paging file, which is about 40 times slower than RAM. Check that all your drivers and stuff are up to date and not corrupted or any of that stuff.

 

[miketheidiot]

bad drivers? Your hardware should be able to handle that on medium resolution.

 

[SLCentral]

Neverwinter Nights should run on that system, check drivers, chipset drivers, and any spyware.

 

[Porter21]

512mb of RAM definitely doesn't mean stuttering. I currently own one stick of 512mb 3200 RAM and can play any game i throw at it. Of course I do have a 9800 pro and amd xp 2500 clocked to 3200 so that may help.

 

[mdnblaster]

I have another machine that runs the game just fine but with a 1.5Ghz P4 and the Ti4400. I did just update the drivers and clean up some of the processes but there is only a slight improvement. How does the FX5200 compare to a Ti4400?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Ti4400 > FX5200

 

[Cerb]

Also, with the current drivers installed, you should be able to swap video cards with the other machine and see how that goes. A GF4 Ti 4400 should be quite an improvement.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Get a used TI4200 and problemo solved

 

[Randabis]

Originally posted by: Porter21
512mb of RAM definitely doesn't mean stuttering. I currently own one stick of 512mb 3200 RAM and can play any game i throw at it. Of course I do have a 9800 pro and amd xp 2500 clocked to 3200 so that may help.

Try running Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

 

[mdnblaster]

My Ti4400 machine does have a bit of trouble with Bloodlines, especially with the rain effect. Guess it's time to save for whatever will be an upper mid-range video card in a few months for both machines.

 

[Andres3605]

i have run both Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines and HL2 with 512 ram not a single problem

 

[Sonic587]

Originally posted by: Randabis

Originally posted by: Porter21
512mb of RAM definitely doesn't mean stuttering. I currently own one stick of 512mb 3200 RAM and can play any game i throw at it. Of course I do have a 9800 pro and amd xp 2500 clocked to 3200 so that may help.

Try running Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

HL2 and VTM:B (Both based on Source) have massive, erratic engine faults with sound stuttering. It's usually not due to RAM, although more can help alleviate the problem. Just check the Steam forums.

 

[Machine350]

I play a lot of UT2004, Far Cry, etc. and I noticed that going to a gig of ram did help level load times and stuttering a little. But I think you biggest bottleneck is that fx5200. Those cards were the worst.