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What's the bottleneck?

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Riprorin

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I tried running Need for Speed on my kids computer and it really bogs down at anything but the lowest screen resolutions. Is the bottleneck the cpu or the video card.

Cpu is Cel 466@ 525 and the video card is a TNT2.
 
Is there a frames-per-second readout you can monitor, or a benchmark loop it can run? If so, try raising the resolution. If the framerate stays mostly the same as you go from the lowest resolution to the next-lowest, that indicates that the CPU is holding up the show and the video card is just waiting for the CPU to give it stuff to do.
 
Wow thats strange I got good performance from that game from a P166 and a Voodoo2. Maybe that game is sensitive to overclocking.
 
Maybe he has a TNT2 Vanta or M64, which have a crippled memory controller and would be seriously outperformed by a Voodoo2. Then again, I've played UT2003 Demo at 640 x 480 x 16 on a TNT2 Vanta 8Mb... with an AthlonXP 1600+ for polygon propulsion, that is.
 
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