PLEASE help with GeForce FX 5200 Problems

[BenzRoller]

Ok, I have a pretty crappy computer, so I just recently bought a GeForce FX 5200 for PCI(I have no AGP slot)

Well my comp specs are:

Intel Celeron 2.6 Ghz(Yes, It's crap)
512 MB PC-2100 ram
Windows XP Home
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 for PCI

Well, my problem is, the only game I play is counter-strike, it's literally a 5 year old game, not graphic demanding at all, and i'm running 40-50 fps on it. I have my monitor refresh rate at 75, AA and AF off, Vsync off, the works. How can I be getting this low? Could there be something wrong with my PCI slot? This is a decent video card, i've seen people with 1.7 celerons, 256 mb of ram, and this video card EASILY get 100 fps. Somebody, please help me.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

It's prrobably due to it being on the pci bus sharing the limited bandwidth. Do you have a pci sound card? any other pci cards? They all share the bus together so traffic slows things down. Also, I'd recommend older dets if you are using the latest from nV's site as they don't benefit older cards performance. Guru3D has a bunch you can peruse. I haven't played with pci graphics in a good while so if there are bios tweaks and such let this serve as a bump for those in the know on this topic ^

 

[BenzRoller]

I have one other card in the very bottom PCI slot, I'm pretty sure it's the onboard Integrated Graphics card. Also, something I find interesting, is when I click on the GeForce FX 5200 tab, it says Adapter Information : PCI x0, shouldn't it say what slot it's in. Maybe this PCI slot is corrupt? Anyone?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The other card can't be integrated graphics by definition. If the slot were bad the card wouldn't work properly. You can try musical slots to rule out any issues of it sharing and such, btw is this a Dell?

 

[BenzRoller]

Nope, it's a Compaq, the card on the bottom must be a sound card or something then, because I did not upgrade that slot.

 

[BenzRoller]

Erm...anyone, i'm pretty pissed that I just spent 130 $ on a video card that should run CS at 100 fps easily

 

[Aleksandar]

maby you can try the stuff Here
I got the same card (agp) version and i get 60fps i think it is a cs problem

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, the FX5200 is the very bottom of the barrel even in AGP form. Earlier model cards outperform it significantly.

 

[BenzRoller]

Yes, but the problem is this card is easily capable of playing cs at 100 fps.

 

[BenzRoller]

I have only 3 PCI slots, the top one being the one the card is in, and the bottom one being a sound card that came with the computer. Since I have limited slots, and 2 occupied, could that be slowing it down?

 

[BenzRoller]

Rule that out...It was an onboard modem card that came with comp, I just uninstalled it. Card doesn't go faster at all :C

 

[LTC8K6]

Try running Driver Cleaner to remove all traces of the onboard video drivers and then reinstall the latest NV drivers.

 

[BenzRoller]

I don't really get how to use that program for Intel Extreme, please explain.

 

[BenzRoller]

Please, anyone explain how to work this program

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: BenzRoller
Ok, I have a pretty crappy computer, so I just recently bought a GeForce FX 5200 for PCI(I have no AGP slot)

Well my comp specs are:

Intel Celeron 2.6 Ghz(Yes, It's crap)
512 MB PC-2100 ram
Windows XP Home
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 for PCI

Well, my problem is, the only game I play is counter-strike, it's literally a 5 year old game, not graphic demanding at all, and i'm running 40-50 fps on it. I have my monitor refresh rate at 75, AA and AF off, Vsync off, the works. How can I be getting this low? Could there be something wrong with my PCI slot? This is a decent video card, i've seen people with 1.7 celerons, 256 mb of ram, and this video card EASILY get 100 fps. Somebody, please help me.

Hmm. Sounds very much like a similar problem that I was having on an OEM Celeron 566Mhz system with an Intel i810G, or whatever their SDRAM/Socket370/integrated-graphics chipset was. I put a PCI TNT1 16MB (128-bit mem) card in to play original UT with. The game was playing horribly laggy, nearly half of the frame-rate that the machine should have been getting. Turned out that the onboard video was still active. I had to disable it using Device Manager from inside of Windows, and then I regained most of the system memory bandwidth back.

I suggest that you try the same thing. Also, does that FX5200 have 128-bit memory, or 64-bit? That could be the problem too.

 

[BenzRoller]

The onboard video card has been disabled for I don't know how long, so that isn't the problem, and I have no idea what the bit memory is, I just know it has 128 MB PNY GeForce FX 5200 D: