Major texture thrashing problem

[Dabu]

I've been having pretty bad texture thrashing in games like WoW and Counterstrike: Source. It's pretty much like wading through molasses every time I get to a new area/load a level. I think I have it narrowed down to the motherboard (an old ABIT KR7A). I say this because I tried swapping my Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti4400 out for a Radeon 9800 pro card, and still the same problems. Could it be the VIA chipset? So far I've tried 4 in 1 drivers v443 and v449, and nothing. Right now I've got 256 mb ram, but more is on the way. However I don't think this will help either. I've also got the AGP set on 4x (max for the card/mobo) and aperture size set to 128. Any ideas? Running winxp SP2.

 

[charlie21]

256 MB of ram is barely enough to run WinXP, never mind gaming. You need at least 512, and with the games you mention a gig is a good idea.

 

[Dabu]

Thanks, I'll stick a gig in there and see what happens.

 

[Dabu]

Well I've got 512 in there now, and it made a HUGE difference Thanks for the heads up, charlie.