Hi. I'm no expert, so I thought I'd ask here.
I got a new PC in November. The spec is:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4Ghz
nVidia GeForce 7950GX2
2GB Samsung DDR2 SDRAM @ 667Mhz
19" analog flat panel monitor (my old monitor, didn't come with new PC)
I've noticed a lot of games (Need for Speed Carbon, Top Spin 2, TrackMania United, The Race - WTCC) struggle with the frame rate at max settings. TrackMania, for example, will only give 60fps @ medium quality, in 1280 x1024. Things like turning shadows and motion blur on seem to be a big problem.
I've made sure the games are all using both cores (Task Manager, right-click process, choose Set Affinity) and in my nVidia control panel I've turned on Multi-GPU (someone else told me about "SLI" options, but I can't see such an option in nVidia's contrl panel - I'm guessing "multi-GPU" is the same thing???)
Do you guys think all the above is expected? Or am I doing something wrong? After spending £1,400 on a PC with no monitor I was kinda hoping for good frame rates with high quality visuals.
Thanks folks
I got a new PC in November. The spec is:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4Ghz
nVidia GeForce 7950GX2
2GB Samsung DDR2 SDRAM @ 667Mhz
19" analog flat panel monitor (my old monitor, didn't come with new PC)
I've noticed a lot of games (Need for Speed Carbon, Top Spin 2, TrackMania United, The Race - WTCC) struggle with the frame rate at max settings. TrackMania, for example, will only give 60fps @ medium quality, in 1280 x1024. Things like turning shadows and motion blur on seem to be a big problem.
I've made sure the games are all using both cores (Task Manager, right-click process, choose Set Affinity) and in my nVidia control panel I've turned on Multi-GPU (someone else told me about "SLI" options, but I can't see such an option in nVidia's contrl panel - I'm guessing "multi-GPU" is the same thing???)
Do you guys think all the above is expected? Or am I doing something wrong? After spending £1,400 on a PC with no monitor I was kinda hoping for good frame rates with high quality visuals.
Thanks folks