Computer Trouble

[michael196]

i lagged too but not so much

and i turned my on board sound an YEA YEA YEA

no LAG AT ALL

i lagged a little when sound was enable and no no lag at all i kill every one and they kill me too ): (: lol

NVM

so thx for the idea with the sound!!!

[TmM_Ryan]

what cpu do u have? if its a celeron' date=' your screwed. celerons are SLOW. a 2.8 celeron was performing worse than my dual 866 MHz p3....[/quote']

Pleaz 2 here u sorted it, i never wudo f though a sound card wud of fucked it up though, btw i have an amd athlon xp 2800+ proccesser but u dont need 2 know that really cz my game runs as smooth as it used 2

[Zircon]

Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 PCI 128 MB Graphix card

That graphics card doesn't sound so great, either. The FX line is horrible... I'd recommend looking for another.

[-]<fc-Camel]

ya, but its good for MTA and Halo, and UT2k3/2k4

Which are about the only games i play.

[[KFC] El Burro]

FX line ain't horrible! I have an FX5900 and it pwns the fuck outta any other G card out there!

The only thing i find annoying is the fan on it sounds like a Frieght train...

[orappa]

FX's are pretty good on games that have the "Made for Nvidia" logo on them (as you'd no doubt expect), so mine's great on UT2004 but not quite so good on GTA (although I'm beginning to suspect that it's not actually the card causing the juddering).

[Zircon]

The 5200 isn't that great for Vice City, let alone MTA, at all. The lower line of FXs are generally no good, anyway, as I said.

I'm not sure if that's the problem, but it could certainly be contributing to it...

[orappa]

I'm not sure if that's the problem, but it could certainly be contributing to it...

I thought we established that it was the sound

I think that the CPU is playing the biggest part, so upgrading your CPU would probably fix the problem with the sound as well (it has to do all of the sound processing because it's onboard). So even if you can now get it running smoothly, Rival, that's probably with all settings on minimum.

[Prokopis]

Have you guys tried installing newer drivers for your onboard sound cards before you disabled them?

[StAnToN]

yeh i have nvidia gefore fx 5200 128mb and its pretty good for UT 2004!

[orappa]

Have you guys tried installing newer drivers for your onboard sound cards before you disabled them?

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Also, I remember that Project Eden (on my old PC) ran really slowly due to the onboard sound, but reducing the sound quality was enough to make it playable - disabling it completely wasn't necessary.

Finally, I personally cannot tell the difference between 44KHz and 48KHz quality, so I usually put sound quality on low or medium (even though I have an Audigy 2) to increase the framerate. There's no point in having extra processing used on things that you don't notice.