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Low fps with OLD games (help me plz)
Solphrae
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Hi my name's Solphrae, and i have a wierd problem. When i play Anarchy online, my fps is really low, id say 13-29 fps, but when i played shadowbane (which to me has 30% better graphics than AO) i can get high Fps, and while my comp is really not up to running todays games, it makes no sense to me. Ive downloaded the drivers for my card (which btw is an Nvidia geforce 8400 gs, and if it can help more, my comp ghs is 2.79), set my card to performance, but it only helped a little. Can anyone help me?
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Judging from that statement, I can guess 3 things:
1) Your computer has a bunch of viruses on it.
2) You have 400-500 songs n your computer taking up most of your *harddrive space
3) Both of those two.
*Doh
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
For XP or Vista, if you hit the start button in the lower left, go to All Programs, Accessories, and System Tools. Both are under there. Disk cleanup removes unnecessary old files, such as temporary files created when things are installed. Disk cleanup allows you to remove them. Defrag, is a bit harder to explain, but basically reorganizes files in your computer so it can work more efficiently.
I was asking about RAM because you didn't list yours, and it is often the first thing needed to be upgraded to improve performance and speed, especially back before video cards handled so much. If yours is low, you might need to upgrade it. Luckily, that is a cheap and easy process these days.
We all started somewhere man.
also: I don't think anyone has that many songs; I have like 5200 songs on my computer.
Can you list your full specs?
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Why would songs have ANYTHING to do with it? I have over 8000 and this computer runs plenty fast. I think it's the video card, an 8400 GS isn't much of a gaming card.
1. Defragging - double click on my computer and right click on C: drive. Choose properties, click the tools tab and click on defragment now... Let it do its thing, it may take a half an hour or so to finish.
2. tell us how much ram you have by right clicking on my computer and selecting properties. Under the general tab it lists some of your specs at the bottom where it says computer.
Also, let us know if the cpu you have is a celeron/sempron. If so your doomed to have shit performance in most games no matter what you do.
I have 3-4 friends with shitty computers who download thousands of songs, then install games on there computer and take up almost all of their harddrive.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
the only games i am having this problem with are wolfenstein ET and anarchy online. not every game
Yes but what does that have to do with RAM?
Songs have nothing to do with anything. ANYTHING. If you're talking about hard-drive space you only need enough for your virtual-RAM, and it doesn't matter at all how much of it is taken up.
Yeah... but its not the songs that do it. It has a lot to do with limewire or whatever program they used to download the songs. Using those programs just opens up a whole can of worms and lets in all kinds of bad shit on your computer. Btw, having a ton of songs takes up HDD space, but not ram :P
If you defrag regularly you won't notice much, if you never defrag and are big on downloading things then deleting them and downloading more you should notice a pretty decent improvement from a defrag.
So why didn't you tell us in this post? Or several posts ago when people were asking for it?
Also, don't double post. There's an edit button right there at the bottom right of your post.
...what?
We need to know your RAM because a lot of things take up RAM and some games are more RAM intensive than others, so it could be that AO is simply a RAM intensive program while Shadowbane is limited by GPU or CPU more, which are up to the task
Anyways, the 8400 isn't the best card in the world, but it should be able to handle AO.
Are you sure you're looking at RAM? It'll be in a measurement of MB or GB, and will be in the increments of:
256 MB, 512 MB, 1,024MB(1 GB), 2GB. There's a chance of having 768Mb or 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 GB, but really if it's not one of those you may be looking at the wrong thing.
Some older games don't run as well as newer ones, because they aren't as well programmed. Maybe you have enabled an option in your older game that makes it run slower. For example, enabling HDR in Lineage II will give pretty bad performance on a new machine, because it uses a very old version of HDR that isn't very optimized.
(BTW, I have 17,000 songs in my computer :P)
Edit: Khavall, Windows XP usually lists 1GB of RAM as 0.99GB under system properties.
it says 2.79 Ghz, 0.99 GB of RAM
soooo, i should be heading off to bestbuy to buy RAM?
Ok, I was also thrown off by the fact that the unit of measurement was "ram" which... I guess it isn't, so I was off.
You have enough ram to cover AO, so that's not it.
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or not.
Download the latest drivers for your graphics card from Nvidia.com
Defrag if you haven't already.
Listen to the other's advice regarding Spyware and Viruses, there is a lot of good software in their posts.
How old is your computer? What type of processor?
More information can't hurt.
Name: NVIDIa GeForce 8400 Gs
Manufacurer: NviDIA
Chip type: Geforce 8400 Gs
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Approx. Total Memory 512 MB
Current display mode: 1280x 960 (32 bit) (75 HZ)
also one more thing, what can i do to get fps up in BF2 that has to be my favorite game and i only uninstalled it because of the fps.
yeah, but what kind of games? (im talking, alot of things happening on screen, what year were they made)
New graphic card. I wouldn't trust a 8400GS to run Vista's desktop, much less a game
Google "super anti-spyware", install it, update it, and run it. That should help a bit.