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DarkLord7854 · #16 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

Are you sure its a 128 not a 256?

Have you downloaded latest DirectX?Plus all your updates and drivers that are required after formatting?

Check device manager and us it to ensure ALL drivers are installed correctly.

Does your Motherboard have a x4 or x8 AGP slot?

It's a 4x/8x slot

alexd10 · #17 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

Are you sure its a 128 not a 256?

Have you downloaded latest DirectX?Plus all your updates and drivers that are required after formatting?

Check device manager and us it to ensure ALL drivers are installed correctly.

Does your Motherboard have a x4 or x8 AGP slot?

All the drivers are installed. There are no yellow "question marks" in device manager. I should probably mention that when i JUST turn a game on (for example, GTA), it runs alright on the highest res, and then progressively gets worse until it's unplayable. Changing the res does nothing. I;ve considered overheating, but I do have 2 fans running in addition to the CPU fan and the video card fan, so that's unlikely.

Downloading DirectX now. Im considering buying an nvidia 6200 just to see if it fixes the problem because I suspect a problem with the hardware. Thanks for all your help guys

DarkLord7854 · #18 1 Week Ago

Hmm, you wouldn't have an extra gig to throw in for RAM would you? To see if performance stays stable at 2Gbs?

alexd10 · #19 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by DarkLord7854

Hmm, you wouldn't have an extra gig to throw in for RAM would you? To see if performance stays stable at 2Gbs?

Im actually shopping for another half gig of ram right now. The new version of directX didnt do anything at all...

DarkLord7854 · #20 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by alexd10

Im actually shopping for another half gig of ram right now. The new version of directX didnt do anything at all...

If you have a 1024mbs stick already, getting a second one would be a better choice then a 512Mbs stick. I can recommend using TigerDirect since you're in Canada correct?

alexd10 · #21 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by DarkLord7854

If you have a 1024mbs stick already, getting a second one would be a better choice then a 512Mbs stick. I can recommend using TigerDirect since you're in Canada correct?

Thanks. I'm looking on the tigerdirect site, and ram i need is ddr400, but it also says "pc3200". I dont know what that means and it doesnt say anything like that on my old ram. What does it mean and is it compatible?

DarkLord7854 · #22 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by alexd10

Thanks. I'm looking on the tigerdirect site, and ram i need is ddr400, but it also says "pc3200". I dont know what that means and it doesnt say anything like that on my old ram. What does it mean and is it compatible?

Can you take a look at your current stick and tell me what the label says? Should at least have a serial/part number I can look up, or might have the speed/PC number

jakedude182 · #23 1 Week Ago

Having looked here I found your Motherboard doesn't support pc3200 speed. Also here, and here I found your motherboard supports ddr333, and not ddr400 like you said you need.

jake

DarkLord7854 · #24 1 Week Ago

That's true, if you put PC3200 memory in it, it would run it at PC2700 speeds and could potentially heavily impact performance

Ninja-Edit:
If you took your DDR400 stick from the old motherboard, and put it into the new one, that would explain your performance loss

alexd10 · #25 1 Week Ago

Originally Posted by DarkLord7854

That's true, if you put PC3200 memory in it, it would run it at PC2700 speeds and could potentially heavily impact performance

Ninja-Edit:
If you took your DDR400 stick from the old motherboard, and put it into the new one, that would explain your performance loss

Yep I just saw in the manual I need either DDR333 or DDR266 SDRAM. Not my fault, I had a shop install the motherboard, I guess they should have told me my old ram was not compatible. So if I just pop in a stick of 1gb DDR333 ram, you think it will improve?