AMD 800 Duron not playing games

You'd be better off running games under Win98SE. Some WinME functions slow the system.



- Better go Green than Blue!

Windows ME is awesome, works perfect for me on all my games and stuff.

Im not running a AMD CPU.

Im told by many genious here that AMD doesn't have any compatability issues. so I guess you suck at building a stable machine.

I would go back to 98, Win2k is pretty good but you will have the same problems with some games not running.

M

one of the first UK T-Bird users....

It is almost certainly Windows ME. There are countless bugs, most of which are flaky and seem to affect one machine but not the other. There are known unpatched bugs with both DDE and DNS. We had several machines in the office running ME (Intel machines I might add) that refuse to run many applications. They were constantly currupting indexes and crashing programs in places they should never crash. Switching to a Win98SE image solved the problem.

I would suggest windows 2k, I am running a 900 athlon, with an A7V and if you install the windows 2k AGP hotfix, and the AMD windows 2K fix, then the system is completely rock solid, in regular windows, and also in games, I had some issues with some games earlier before installing the amd patch, after that it has been running for days and i have been throwing everything at it, running games in the utmost extream resolutions for hours and hours on end, and havent been able to make it flinch let alone crash, I dont know what people's issues are with windows 2000 and games, it works like a dream for me.

Athlon 900
Global Win FOP32-1 (removed thermal tape and used Arctic Silver)
Asus A7V 1005c
Asus V7700 GeForce2 GTS Deluxe 32DDR (Det3)
Soundblaster Live Value
D-Link Network Card
Extra USB Ports Installed
256mb Infinion PC133 Ram
Enermax 330watt PS
2 8cm Case Fans
1 12cm Case Fan
Windows 2K Service Pack1 and AGP hotfix update +Amd AGP Fix
Via 4in1 425(1)a
Direct X 8
for Windows 2K
Zip 250 internal
DVD-Rom

If you Overclock an Intel Processor fast enough, it will turn into an AMD. True Story.

what is your irq situation? do you have system resore disabled in WINME? These are two big things to check first. The vast majority of posts I see with Asus a7v's all seem to have creative cards in them. These should go into the pci slot that is sharing an irq with no other devices.

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