Video Card Is F ******* !!!!! i need help !!!!!!!!!

Stormwolf

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Feb 5, 2001
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Hi, I just bught my cooooool new pc and i gotta real bad problem
with it. It seems that my video card (TNT2 M64, i know, ya can stop laughing now) has some serious problems.
any
Any, and i mean any game that i play will stutter no matter what.

Games like Diablo 2 run fine for like a minute ( 40-70 fps) and then drop to like 5 fps the next minute.

even games like GTA 2 run at like 5 fps.

Everything was fine till i installed this one bad game......
Motocross madness.

It changed my videocard settings and now they suck.

I've done the following things:

1.) I uninstalled the game!
2.) I thoroughly deleted the game
3.) I did a virus scan (though a virus would seem unlikly since the game is origional)and no virus.
4.) I Restored the defaults to all my videocard settings.
5.) i did scandisk, norton cleansweep etc.

Nothing worked and my games suck now.

Its not a Cpu problem since i got 900 mhz, and 256 ram

1.)Would the problem be solved if i got a new video card?
2.)Should i download the newest driver? (detonator 3) but that would decrease perfomance at lower res.
3.) Any other advice?

If you say yes to question 1, what video card should i buy
( Kyro II, Geforce 2 gts, Radeon 64DDR, Voodoo5 AGP ?)

Any, advice would be aprreciated, please help
end my agony.
 

Hawk

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Feb 3, 2000
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Wait, so this is a clean install of Windows right? I say yes...get a new video card! =) You are wasting your CPU on that TNT2. I say, well, depends on how much you want to spend, the best deal is the Radeon LE for about 80 bucks shipped.