Find My Bottleneck

[Geranium_Z__NL]

which brand videocard? and i dont mean Nvidia..

i mean like sapphire or Peak..

my ati radeon 9800 PRo was real bad since peak was using left over parts (at least what i heard)

got a same card from Sapphire.. and there was nothing wrong...

cooling of the vid card could be a problem (but i dont see why) :p

I mean cuz.. it was getting my pc stuck all the time.. pc was fast enough and could do the game with ease.. but when I started it up.. it got stuck anyway... or i just had poor video performance after a while in game

[redvamp128]

Check your bios settings- The agp aperture could be the bottle neck. I have seen a similar issue but with an Ati Radeon 9700 non pro... that a friend had- He was playing the original Quake- and he would have good FPS then a drop off- Then the random BSOD/Lock up. The bios default was 64mb- So he set it to the max of 256mb but I am sure if your system is newer it may go to 512mb. And his problems stopped- The reason for his lockups was that it was overrunning the buffer from the Game to the Card.

Though it may be the Power Supply- but this is worth a shot.

[Andrew Tomaka]

which brand videocard? and i dont mean Nvidia..

XFX manufactured running a nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX with 256 MB memory.

Check your bios settings- The agp aperture could be the bottle neck.

I'm relatively certain that setting is exclusive to boards with an agp slot. My card is pci-e. In BIOS, the PCI-E related items are:

Maximum Payload Size (currently set to 4096)

PCIE Spread Spectrum (currently set to Disabled)

SLI Broadcast Aperture (currently set to Disabled)