RAM n FPS

[humpfry]

Hello.
If anyone has useful information pretaining to my problem please let me know.
I am a gamer, and have recently put together a new system. However with my current set up, i am having terrible framerates, ripping in the screen, and stuttering when moving from one load point to another. I am currently playing World of warcraft and HL2. Because of this aweful preformance i am forced to shut down all of my graphic settings, however to my surprise nothing helped. Now i am wondering if my new system is not good enough for these games. How do ram and FPS relate? will ram affect my FPS?

computer:
abit av8
ati x800 xt pe catalyst driver 4.12
Corsair XMS 512 pc3200
seagate 200 gb sata HD
windows xp pro SP2


thank you for any solutions and your time.

 

[SrGuapo]

What CPU (though it really doesn't matter). That system should be able to play HL2 and WoW at alost maxed out settings. Have you tried any synthetic benchmarks or other games? Do they perform the same or do they work fine? HL2 and WoW are pretty RAM hungry, but I doubt it would be that bad with 512MB.

Have you tried any other drivers for the video? That HDD is a 7200 RPM right?

Something is definately messed up with your system. I can run HL2 at medium settings (1024x768) on a P4 2.4, Radeon 9700Pro, 512MB RAM with no problems.

 

[FishTankX]

Ram helps stabilize FPS if there isn't enough RAM, and if the game's data doesn't completly fit in the RAM you get jerkyness of play. So make sure you have enough, but there is no benefit if you do have enough.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Originally posted by: FishTankX
Ram helps stabilize FPS if there isn't enough RAM, and if the game's data doesn't completly fit in the RAM you get jerkyness of play. So make sure you have enough, but there is no benefit if you do have enough.

 

[dunkster]

I agree with SrGuapo.

I had no problems running HL2 smoothly at 1024 X 768 with a mildly-overclocked 9500Pro with 512 RAM and an XP1700 cpu.

Were the graphics drivers a clean-install, or perhaps you have residual components of a previous graphics driver?

How many unnecesary processes are running in memory? Inspect your startup list, trim unnecessary processes from starting. An excellent utility, ProcessExplorer, will list all processes running in memory and identify which programs are running those processes.

Is your AV program interfering with game-module-loading? I had trouble running Doom3 with NOD32, for example, forcing me to add Doom3 folder to the NOD32 exceptions list to run the game smoothly. You can test this easily:
- Disconnect from internet.
- Exit from your AV program.
- Run the game and note differences.

There is something wrong - your video card drivers would be my first suspect.

Hope this helps!