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Built computer isn't running well
ViaosHK56
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Here's the deal. I built a computer from parts a while back and am trying to get it to run well with WoW. The frame rate is staying around 20-24 fps no matter if the settings are the lowest or the highest. I have an Intel Celeron processor - 2.5ghz - FSB - 800/533MHz. It also has an ATI Radeon grahics card. 1Gb ram and a 500 watt power supply. I'm thinking that the problem is the processor, and possibly ram is bottlenecking the graphics card and forcing it to run at less than it's abilities. Any thoughts on the matter? Thanks.
Link to the graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102085
Don't have a link to the processor, since it got taken down.
Link to the graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102085
Don't have a link to the processor, since it got taken down.
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So yea.. get rid of lighting effects.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
You want to turn that off.
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Bloom on or off, resolution 800x600 or 1280x1024, low texture, high texture, all low settings, all high settings, none of it will change the framerate by more than 1 or 2 on his PC and I can't figure out what it is.
My guess is the processor or RAM are causing him to run less than optimal but I'm not too sure.
So one day I updated my drivers for HL, WoW then ran like shit. So I had to roll back my driver.
Perhaps you hit the same snag I did - check it out.
That's a sure sign that the problem isn't GPU-related.
Your system just can't keep up with all the processing that is going on behind the scenes, so that is throttling the GPU.
I had a similar problem with Half-Life 2 on my old Athlon XP machine. After having slightly below-par performance, I chucked a 6600GT in it to attempt to improve things, but I still hit the same framerate cap as I did with my Geforce 3.
Generally it's the CPU that is the real bottleneck in these cases. The strange thing in this case is that the CPU isn't all that bad... surely it should be able to keep up.
edit: Or in an "AGP express" slot?
Swing and a miss.
There is absolutely no way that a 2.5 ghz processor is the bottleneck, unless it is flat out broken...
That's what I meant when I said "The strange thing in this case is that the CPU isn't all that bad".
From his description, all signs point to "CPU Bottleneck". When a game runs at the same frame rate regardless of graphical settings, the CPU is almost always the issue.
Yet, it's a 2.5GHz processor. Something strange is going on, and I'm 90% certain it's got something to do with the CPU/mobo/RAM/BIOS-Settings. It's certainly not the GPU that's the issue.
If I was ViaosHK56, I'd be running PCMark05 and seeing how my result compares to other similar processors.
Without going into specs (although, if necesary, I'll pull them out later) what would be the most common reason for a computer to both freeze and reboot (at seperate times)? It only seems to freeze when it is under some sort of load (during or right after boot is a popular time, for it, as well as when I am trying to run multiple downloads. Also, the other day I came home to find it had frozen while Norton had started to run some kind of check.) And it doesn't seem to ever reboot while i'm in front of it, but every once in a while I come home to a log in screen, and a message that it has recovered from a serious error.
Now, I had a virus on here once, and I fixed it by running a fix I got off the web. Is it possible that might have made some alteration (maybe in the registry, or something) which could have done this? I only remember one time it might have done this before hand, which was when I was dealing with my video card settings, I believe.
Also, I just put in a new PCI express card, and my computer has stopped recognizing my Slave HDD (bad, because that is where I keep all my files; master is just OS and programs). Is the PCI e card likely to do that (it happened immediately the first time I booted up after putting in the card) or is there another likely reason? If it is the card, is there a fix that doesn't involve getting rid of it entirely? For the record, the slave drive is on the same PATA ribbon as the master drive, and the master drive has been working fine.
For a slightly more informative response, you probably mean PCI-E, or PCI express.
As far as timeline and graphics prowess, it generally goes onboard<PCI<AGP<PCI-E<SLI
I think, heh.
Also, unless i'm terribly mistaken, graphics slots aren't cross-compatible, the way the card interfaces with the mobo makes it impossible to plug say, a PCI card into an AGP slot.
They also have different power requirements from the mobo.
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Although that is really odd.
Yeah their cache speeds/sizes are what kills them.
No, I meant AGP express.
It seemed like a reasonable guess at a bottleneck at the time.
Don't they also have poor floating point performance?
I have played WoW with a Radeon X800 AGP in a normal AGP slot and didn't have any sort of problem.
I would guess it's the drivers or the processor.
@Evander-The lazy way to post specs is through a dxdiag file. Also, the best thing to do when you have a serious virus is to just reformat.
2.4 Ghz P4
1 GB RAM
256 MB Video Card (Don't recall which one, it's been awhile) (8x AGP in a 4x Slot)
Which was pretty sexy until I upgraded my 17" CRT to a 20.1" Widesceen LCD. Now I get (quite literally) 5-10 fps most of the time in WoW. It'll go a little better if I run it in windowed mode at 800x600, but not much.
My Powerbook with 1.25 Ghz/512 MB/64 MB Video actually runs the game slightly better with the same external display.
I think with WoW, at least, there may well be processing and lag bottlenecks as well, meaning by the time the GPU has been given the rendering command, it's already too late.
But that might be complete nonsense.
I just don't think WoW is a good benchmark for anything really.