re: pci gfx

[meffidman]

I have an asus mb that had an on board 16mb s3 savage video chip and didnt have a spare agp slot, so i recently purchased a 64mb radeon 9000 pci card. I have no problem runing most of the newer titles but some of my older games that ran fine with my on board gfx (eg. sof2) the framerate has dramitcally dropped using my new card.

any advice plz?

i got a athlon 1.1ghz, 256mb ram, win2k pro

 

[meffidman]

?

 

[10GHZ]

some of the older titles might require higher system specs then some of the newer releases. it all depends on the games engine.

 

[Crashman]

Hmm, S3 AGP vs ATI PCI...Well, I have good news and bad. IT's possible that the newer titles run better on the newer card because they use it's newer features, but the older titles run better on the older integrated graphics because of the faster AGP transfer rate.

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[meffidman]

is there a way to get the best of both functions, ie without changing which display adapter im using?

 

[Crashman]

No.

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[meffidman]

bah, computers suck..

 

[Crashman]

LOL, no, YOUR computer sux because it uses a garbage chipset! You know you can get a replacement board and AGP video card.

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[meffidman]

yeah which requries money, which when im saving up for my holiday i just dont have :/

unless u want to buy me some new hardware?