Computer ??? again...

[McKrackin]

My PC is playing my sim and most games pretty well but still twitchy on GTA IV.Kinda plays slowly frame by frame.Know what I mean?

What does it need to play better?

It's system is...

Intel core 2 duo cpu e4500 @2.20ghz 2.20ghz
4G RAM
32 bit Vista Home Premium w/ SP1

GeForce 9400GT graphics card

[Dave]

Dang Ernie you forgot to put a beer in it...lol

[McKrackin]

;D

[coffinsnail]

run xp lol....

it should run ok go into the games settings and try to adjust things like shadows and reflectoins if you can. sometimes you can pick either performance or quality go towards performance most games i play even tho i can play them cranked i play about middle or one notch lower then middle if i can ...

could also be the resolution your playing it at thats making it sluggish. might try diffrent resolutions.

from what i have read that card can run oblivion at max rather well. so i guess the question is.

did you download drivers or did you use the ones on the disk? if you used the ones on the disk visit www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download new drivers the ones on the disk are always weak and outa date. if you dont know how to remove the old and put in the new ones, take a look at their site they got directions somewhere.

Nvidia site says this... Uninstall older display drivers - When replacing graphics cards, you should always first uninstall your previous cards display drivers. If they are left on a system, they may remain active and consume CPU resources which lower overall performance, especially when going from a non-NVIDIA based graphics card to an NVIDIA based graphics card. Please check that the drivers for your previous graphics cards have been completely removed from your system.

Here is a link in their knowledge base about uninstalling drivers.

nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=10&p_created=1096404673&p_sid=2Tca2azj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzUxLDM1MSZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PXVuaW5zdGFsbA**&p_li=&p_topview=1

Also to find out what version of the driver you are using, go into Nvidia Control Panel, click on help then system information. it will give you the driver version you have installed.

infact i need to update mine lol.

[McKrackin]

Hey coffin,what resolution would you suggest?

[McKrackin]

The new drivers from NVIDIA seem to have fixed it.
I also set the graphics in the game down to medium and shadows to low.

Thanks for the tips ;D

[coffinsnail]

np and since the new drivers worked id just play with resolutions me i play all my games at 1024x768 or there abouts as i have a wide screen now, but higher and i just dont like it as much everything seems so small then.

[fergie]

missed out on this one, sorry mc, i've been fishing all weekend.
it sound like you got it, cool ;D

[McKrackin]

Hey,how do you guys run more than one operating system on one PC?

Fergie,how went the fishing?

[coffinsnail]

you have to install them in a specific order... IE install xp, then install vista, what happens is the newest OS will take over basically and offer you which OS to boot into when you restart your pc. the other way is to run a virtual pc which then allows you to run and install things in the virtual inviorment. great for testing out things. IE make a virtual xp machine on a xp os and download some odd program. if the program is crap and screws things up or tries to install a virus you just erase the whole virtual pc and everything disapears as if you did nothing.

i heard of a kid that once had 70 diffrent OSs on one pc now talk about a boot manager lol. he had from windows 1.1 to windows xp pro at the time and many OSs i had never heard of that didnt do much of anything lol.

[fergie]

the fishing went good mc, got a bucket full of crappie (and then some), but nothing to wright home about.

as coffin stated, technically you want to install xp first. i installed it last on mine w/no issues. i never ran a virtual pc so.... i'm not real sure how that works.
one way is take at least a 500GIG HDD, split it in half via partition. personally i would wipe it if your going to go the way.

or just install another HDD and go that route, which would probably be alot easier