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I'm working on a nephew's system trying to get a game running better. I posted here because it doesn't seem to be a game-specific issue but rather graphics.
I recently installed a XFX Radeon 6750 video card in a WinXPSP3+ system comprised of an Asus M3N78-VM mobo and Athlon II X2 240e CPU, and the latest driver from AMD's site at the time, v9.0.100.9001 as well as latest Firefox browser, Adobe Flash version. System has ran stable for years, is not a new build, passes Prime95/Membest86+/etc tests.
Running a fairly simple flash game in firefox, at a certain point the game bogs down getting really slow when there are a lot of moving elements on the screen. It is not 3D and not high resolution, and no game adjustments besides the usual flash quality low/medium/high setting. It bogs down on all these. CPU utilization never reaches 100% on either CPU core, averaging well under 40%, even while staying downclocked to 1GHz from the AMD Cool 'n Quiet power management.
GPU-Z shows the Radeon 6750 also stays downclocked (from 700MHz GPU/800MHz mem. to 157MHz GPU/300MHz mem.) and never breaks 3% utilization.
What's going on here? How is it that a relatively simple flash game bogs down when both CPU and GPU aren't loaded? It doesn't seem to matter much if at all if I uncheckmark the "Enable Hardware Acceleration" setting in Flash Player Settings.
I'm doubting it's a system memory bottleneck, there's no networking component, no HDD activity, no other system processes taking up any significant resources. System is otherwise idle and while a game bogs down it can concurrently be used for something else at no perceptible loss of performance. I tried the game on another system and it bogs down a tiny bit but nowhere near as badly, with the other system having a little bit slower Core2 era CPU and practically equal performance nVidia 620 GPU instead of the Radeon 6750.
Is there some trick to getting the Radeon 6750 to accelerate flash or specifically do so in Firefox? Firefox's settings does show that video acceleration is on but I think for page rendering in general??
In GPU-Z at the bottom of the Graphics Card tab there is "Computing:" and empty checkmark boxes for OpenCL, CUDA, PhysX, and DirectCompute. Is this significant?
I recently installed a XFX Radeon 6750 video card in a WinXPSP3+ system comprised of an Asus M3N78-VM mobo and Athlon II X2 240e CPU, and the latest driver from AMD's site at the time, v9.0.100.9001 as well as latest Firefox browser, Adobe Flash version. System has ran stable for years, is not a new build, passes Prime95/Membest86+/etc tests.
Running a fairly simple flash game in firefox, at a certain point the game bogs down getting really slow when there are a lot of moving elements on the screen. It is not 3D and not high resolution, and no game adjustments besides the usual flash quality low/medium/high setting. It bogs down on all these. CPU utilization never reaches 100% on either CPU core, averaging well under 40%, even while staying downclocked to 1GHz from the AMD Cool 'n Quiet power management.
GPU-Z shows the Radeon 6750 also stays downclocked (from 700MHz GPU/800MHz mem. to 157MHz GPU/300MHz mem.) and never breaks 3% utilization.
What's going on here? How is it that a relatively simple flash game bogs down when both CPU and GPU aren't loaded? It doesn't seem to matter much if at all if I uncheckmark the "Enable Hardware Acceleration" setting in Flash Player Settings.
I'm doubting it's a system memory bottleneck, there's no networking component, no HDD activity, no other system processes taking up any significant resources. System is otherwise idle and while a game bogs down it can concurrently be used for something else at no perceptible loss of performance. I tried the game on another system and it bogs down a tiny bit but nowhere near as badly, with the other system having a little bit slower Core2 era CPU and practically equal performance nVidia 620 GPU instead of the Radeon 6750.
Is there some trick to getting the Radeon 6750 to accelerate flash or specifically do so in Firefox? Firefox's settings does show that video acceleration is on but I think for page rendering in general??
In GPU-Z at the bottom of the Graphics Card tab there is "Computing:" and empty checkmark boxes for OpenCL, CUDA, PhysX, and DirectCompute. Is this significant?
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