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| Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at
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hi everyone:
I had to recently reinstall my operating system due to a crash and since i lost my disc I had to go buy a new Windows XP. The only way this can be done these days I guess is to buy an upgrade of some sort so I bought another 80G harddrive and got rid of the other one. I am up and running again of course. I installed all the drivers for my video card, and have free ram XP and have tried a program called Speed It Up and my computer still runs choppy in the Tiger Woods08 game. I shut down programs in the task manager and I do run skype when I play to talk with the other players but have the old 3.0.1.015 version of it as the new version makes my game nearly stand still. Is there a program I can download that may pick the speed up on this ol machine? It is nearly 5 years old but has the Windows SP3, Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz, 2.5G RAM and Nvidia GEForce 6200 video card. Thanks for any help all.
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| Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at
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| edited by: fedexfrt357 on
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Hey Whiff...
There are a few things you can do to improve system performance...but I would avoid downloading any of the fixes as it can really lead to problems later.... (;been there/done that)
Heres something to try (;but you will loose some of the appearance bells and whistles)animations with the windows and such...
(;it can be reversed very easily)
right click My Computer / Properties / Advanced tab / Performance-Settings / Visual Effects tab / Adjust for Best Performance
(;same window) Advanced tab / **make sure that Processor Scheduling and Memory Usage have Programs) ticked.
(;same window) Virtual Memory- this should say about 3500 with 2.5G of RAM...Hit Change
Highlight your drive up top and hit Custom Size below...Now set both to the recommended (;bottom part of window) and hit Set
(;you will have to reboot, the pagefile can be a real bummer, if the initial(;min) and max are the same, it doesnt have to think about how much it wants..this will help speed things up a little....And I promise you it will hurt nothing.. Ill help you set it back if you dont like it) :)
Now just hit Apply when available...Then reopen and check to make sure it took it(;it may reboot)if so, just reopen after restart.. :)
If this doesnt do it for you.... PM me and I will help you further...
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| Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at
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| skype is a major memory hog and with your old video card you are going to have problems,there are other programs you can use in place of skype and $50-$100 would get you a much better video card. |
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| Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at
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thanks for the help.. i'll go try that to see if it works. The video card is only 3 months old Carnoustie although I do know it is the bare minimum needed to play. Was playing using skype before the crash and it worked good, didnt have this problem with it, but i really do appreciate your help man. Thank you so much.
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| Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at
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believe i found the problem in the BIOS settings for video configuration. was set at only 32MB and is a 256MB card. Seems to have fixed problem. Now if i could just use some of the video settings in game without chopping it up.. lol.. would love to see the course life and grass and tree details, but if i remember right, this is the bare minumum video card that i have and will have to wait for money to fall before i get a bigger one. Just thought I'd let ya know where i got help to go look. Thanks for all the help fellas, appreciated it greatly.
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| Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at
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Glad you got it... 32...yep lol... makes a BIG diff... I had a 256 card at first, and had to run on min in the game..
and you know I didn't realize how much diff it makes with a 512...and more RAM.. that grass looks COOL..
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| Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at
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gonna get a 512 when i start back to work. cant wait to see all the stuff i've been missing, but at least it is a bit smoother. having some problems with skype choppin it up a bit but I'll have to maybe find an older copy. not sure which one if any will help.
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| Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at
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| don't really see any reason skype would be doing that. Processor and RAM are well within what it requires, unless you are making video calls... You have the newest release? 4.0.0.206 ? |
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| Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at
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| nah... went back to version 3.0.1.015 |
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| Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at
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Hey Whiff..
When you say Skype is choppy, do you mean your voice or theirs.. ?
I seem to be having the same prob on occasion... with theirs... |
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| Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at
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| Whiff...... in what configuration do you have 2.5 Gigs of RAM? I ask , because if you mixed RAM, the memory will run at the lowest available speed. |
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