Free stuff

Sorry, Just a ploy to get you interested.

Anyone following my posts will know that I recently bought a Saprkle 7600GS 512 AGP. I have since managed a small ram upgrade to 768Mb.

So I now have the following
Celeron 2.4Ghz (Weak Link)
ASRock P4 Combo MOBO
768mb DDR running @ pc2100 (because of the damn processor)
Sparkle 7600GS 512mb AGP
Windows XP SP1

I have had numerous problems with drivers and have settled on NGOHQ (which work) and elected for the optimum clock settings as tested by the drivers.

The Problem.
@ the weekend playing KotOR II at max settings (except Res cos my monitor won't go above 1152) I experienced huge Atrifacts making the game unplayable. I saved & exited and checked Temp on the card 65C, not to hot but hotter than I have ever seen it before.

Looking @ the diags on the drivers the small grid which gives settings for MOBO, OS & card says 8x for MOBO, 2x for OS & 8x for card. is this the issue? is my OS bottlenecking my card? Can anyone help? Is there anyone out there? Sorry, getting carried away. OK WHO SAID "I WISH YOU WOULD BE" .

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers All
NeilV

Wheres the free stuff?

I have experienced the same artifacting you before mentioned when going with the preset video card over clocks. What I found solved the problem was to back down the video memory over clock a bit. It solved my problem maybe it can solve yours. 8)

The KOTOR games (both I and II) are both buggy as hell. They're enjoyable games, but I've had numerous problems while playing through them multiple times. Mostly with sound though. My point is they're not the most reliable games to test on. But like the people above me said, artifacting is usually due to heat.

I think the merest suggestion would result in her having TWO new decorations for the Xmas tree.

Especially since the 7600GS in question is an early Xmas present .

Looks like it's more cooling for me 8) 8) 8)

see more cooling. Get IT

Thanks for all submissions though

Cheers
Neil

Well as I said @ the top it was just a ploy but nothing is as valuable as information so I suppose you did get some free stuff.

So wait, there's no free stuff? I guess nothing in life is free. Speaking of which, you could buy a cheapo mobo and my Athlon64 3000+ I'll sell it to you for $50, shipping included. :-P Socket 939, not AM2, still...a lot better than what you have. AM2 would most likely cause you to use DDR2, this way you can keep your RAM.

No thanks, I'm not into men. So I take it there's no free stuff then? Is that what that rude retort means? :-P

That's MISTER dipshit to you...

Well I must Heartily apologise.

I appears that what I thought was a bit of fun, has infact offended some people. I just thought anyone reading a topic such as "Free Stuff" wouldn't really expect to find some free stuff. My Bad.

I appreciate any help anyone reading this forum can provide and didn't mean to cause offence. :!: :!:

I reply to the question "Why am I still on SP1?", it is because when I installed SP2 both my version of Office 2000 & Nokia PC suite (latest version) refused to work, I removed & re-installed Nokia PC suite with NO Joy and I do not intend to buy a new version of Office when 2000 is perfectly adequate for my needs. So I rolled back SP2.

Thanks for the interest.

Neil V

We're not really offended, just givin' you a hard time. :-P

wtf is a saprkle? are they cheep? do they offer a discount for misspellings? lol. just playin.

I don't think they go 'CHEEP' although in Fable I DO keep being called Chicken Chaser. Until I get the thing working properly I refuse to advertise for them so I rearranged the name to protect the innocent (and if you believe that you will believe anything-ED.)

Does anyone know if the AGP setting for the OS should read 2x on the NVidia drivers tab?

Thanks All
Cheers
NeilV