bobdobolina
Member
Hi there,
I'm running a P3-866, 512MB PC133, Asus CUV4X Mobo, GeForce4 Ti4200, SB Audigy Exitgy, Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm and WinXP. I have run all the Sandra benchmarks and my system shows up as equal or better than the comparable references.
My problem is that when I game I can't seem to get over 45 or so FPS, but usually get far less than 30. It seems that my framerate doesn't change more than 2 or 3 in either direction, regardless of resolution, AA, or in game quality settings. I can't figure out why this is the case. I assumed that I'm getting a bottleneck somewhere, but with all the benchmarks looking pretty good, I can't find it.
Right now I'm trying to play Neverwinter Nights, but every few seconds of movement it's jerky and when a battle or something happens it's almost unplayable. I exceed all the recommended specs by a bunch, except that my cpu is slightly over the recommendation. It almost seems as though events aren't loading far enough ahead of time. I'm no programmer, but aren't there ways to make cache sizes bigger/further ahead or tell the comp to use more ram before swapfile?
Are there any really good software solutions for finding problems like mine? Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
BOB
I'm running a P3-866, 512MB PC133, Asus CUV4X Mobo, GeForce4 Ti4200, SB Audigy Exitgy, Maxtor 60GB 7200rpm and WinXP. I have run all the Sandra benchmarks and my system shows up as equal or better than the comparable references.
My problem is that when I game I can't seem to get over 45 or so FPS, but usually get far less than 30. It seems that my framerate doesn't change more than 2 or 3 in either direction, regardless of resolution, AA, or in game quality settings. I can't figure out why this is the case. I assumed that I'm getting a bottleneck somewhere, but with all the benchmarks looking pretty good, I can't find it.
Right now I'm trying to play Neverwinter Nights, but every few seconds of movement it's jerky and when a battle or something happens it's almost unplayable. I exceed all the recommended specs by a bunch, except that my cpu is slightly over the recommendation. It almost seems as though events aren't loading far enough ahead of time. I'm no programmer, but aren't there ways to make cache sizes bigger/further ahead or tell the comp to use more ram before swapfile?
Are there any really good software solutions for finding problems like mine? Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
BOB
