Hello everyone - I'm new here and I apologise to start by taking up your time - but I was wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? Its got a lot of knowledgeable people baffled! I would be grateful for any replies. Thankyou in advance!
Motherboard 1st mainboard by FIC. Socket A. Award BIOS
Processor AMD Athlon 1 Ghz
Memory 512Mb (2x256Mb 133 Mhz DIMMS. Motherboard supports 100Mhz.
OS Windows 98 SE (clean install)
Graffics Card Hercules 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 (Geforce III)
And heres a brief history:
Developed weird colour effects on graphics (I was running a Geforce II Pro at the time with 256Mb RAM). First noticed it when watching video. Fleshtones were terrible and shadows were also bad. It looked a bit like when you try and display a 16 Bit colour image in 256 colours, if you know what I mean.
This then started to manifest itself in other areas. Splash screens, games etc. Vivid colours were OK, but more muted colours always looked terrible. An example is at the end of eracer, whilst waiting for others to finish, it dims the background graphics. The degradation was terrible.
I did everything I could with drivers but nothing worked. It was suggested to me that my card had probably overheated. I tried reformatting the computer, and when I restarted the games became jerky and frame rates dropped so low everything was unplayable. After several formats, I gave up and bought myself the Geforce III.
I still got the same problems, however, so I ran 3dmark2000. I got reasonable scores (around 5000) but not as high as they should be. When reading reports that the program generated, it highlighted a chronic lack of RAM.
I therefore went out this morning and bought another stick. However, even with 512Mb in, I find myself down to (hang on I'll check - I just benchmarked it and found 233.98Mb free out of 512 Mb). I'll now close the benchmark down, and without running anything else I'll open it again. I bet I get roughly half the amount. Here goes.......
There you go surprise surprsie! 128.72. It seems that anything that uses a lot of RAM is staying in there and not being flushed properly!
Even when starting up I have less than half the RAM available that I should. If I start up afresh, my games are fine, but after a couple of races the jerkiness comes back again. The funny colours have gone on games, but are still on splash screens and video.
I really am at my wits end!
Motherboard 1st mainboard by FIC. Socket A. Award BIOS
Processor AMD Athlon 1 Ghz
Memory 512Mb (2x256Mb 133 Mhz DIMMS. Motherboard supports 100Mhz.
OS Windows 98 SE (clean install)
Graffics Card Hercules 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 (Geforce III)
And heres a brief history:
Developed weird colour effects on graphics (I was running a Geforce II Pro at the time with 256Mb RAM). First noticed it when watching video. Fleshtones were terrible and shadows were also bad. It looked a bit like when you try and display a 16 Bit colour image in 256 colours, if you know what I mean.
This then started to manifest itself in other areas. Splash screens, games etc. Vivid colours were OK, but more muted colours always looked terrible. An example is at the end of eracer, whilst waiting for others to finish, it dims the background graphics. The degradation was terrible.
I did everything I could with drivers but nothing worked. It was suggested to me that my card had probably overheated. I tried reformatting the computer, and when I restarted the games became jerky and frame rates dropped so low everything was unplayable. After several formats, I gave up and bought myself the Geforce III.
I still got the same problems, however, so I ran 3dmark2000. I got reasonable scores (around 5000) but not as high as they should be. When reading reports that the program generated, it highlighted a chronic lack of RAM.
I therefore went out this morning and bought another stick. However, even with 512Mb in, I find myself down to (hang on I'll check - I just benchmarked it and found 233.98Mb free out of 512 Mb). I'll now close the benchmark down, and without running anything else I'll open it again. I bet I get roughly half the amount. Here goes.......
There you go surprise surprsie! 128.72. It seems that anything that uses a lot of RAM is staying in there and not being flushed properly!
Even when starting up I have less than half the RAM available that I should. If I start up afresh, my games are fine, but after a couple of races the jerkiness comes back again. The funny colours have gone on games, but are still on splash screens and video.
I really am at my wits end!
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