Nvidia tweaking help needed

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Tempest

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ISSUE:
DVD playback choppy
Halo Combat evolved play quality blows...choppy, almost freezing at times

HARDWARE:
nvidia 7600 GS agp 512mb
cpu: 1.4ghz amd
mb: old
psu: new, good quality
monitor: dell 3007wfp-hc

BACKGROUND:
the pc is old, no plans to upgrade it any further than it is...prefer to save money for eventual new pc. However, i recently purchased the video card in order to use the 2560 x 1600 native resolution of my dell 30". So, here i am with this huge awesome display, but has issues as described above.

I've gone through all the nvidia control panel settings and set all to best performance, or application chooses settings. Is it because of my monitor that i'm having these problems? I know the 7600gs isn't top of the line, but it's no slouch and it should play Halo 1 without breaking a sweat. I've gone as far as to set the game to the lowest resolution...made no difference. DVD playback shouldn't be an issue either, but it is...even when i don't go full screen. Some dvd's play ok, but some don't. The ones that don't will play fine on my laptop.

Any insight on this would be appreciated.
 
Card just isn't enough. Not at that res. Drop res and I suspect all your problems will go away... unless you're trying to watch HD content. That card doesn't have hardware-based HD decoding ability and the CPU is far too weak to do it on its own, so that simply isn't going to happen.
 
i tried dropping the resolution on the monitor and the game at same time, still same thing happens.
 
I don't think the computer is powerful enough to run the card & the card isn't powerful enough to run the monitor.
 
Tempest said:
i tried dropping the resolution on the monitor and the game at same time, still same thing happens.
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What resolution did you drop to?
For gaming, expect to play at 800x600 up to around 1600x1200 depending on the game.
New games will most likely need 1024 res or lower.
 
Don't know what's going on if you can't manage 800x600.

Time to reinstall Windows, or at very least kill any codec packs, run driver cleaner and install the latest ForceWares. Try getting Nvidia's PureVideo codecs too -- they helped DVD playback on my laptop with a 6600 GO
 
Sounds like the motherboard chipset drivers aren't installed properly. Find out what chipset it is and get the appropriate drivers. Getting the latest drivers for your geforce wouldn't hurt either.
 
Nenu said:
OP, has your PC ever played the games well before?
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great question!

with regular CRT monitor and my previous video card ATI 9200 64mb DVD playback was good, Halo worked good for a 64mb card (but better than it's working now :mad:) . I never tried the new video card with the crt monitor, i was eager to hook up the 30" ;)
 
as stated previously, make sure all of your drivers are new and are installed properly.

Also, you might want to check the bios for AGP fast writes (enable this) and speed (should be 8X).

Also, you can mess with Aperture, start with 64 and go to 128 or 256.

Does the card have auxiliary power? If so, make sure the molex is connected
 
belmicah said:
as stated previously, make sure all of your drivers are new and are installed properly.

Also, you might want to check the bios for AGP fast writes (enable this) and speed (should be 8X).

Also, you can mess with Aperture, start with 64 and go to 128 or 256.

Does the card have auxiliary power? If so, make sure the molex is connected
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I'll check the fast wirtes.....but the board is only spec'd as a 4x agp 2.0 board. :( Hope that isn't causing problem. And it does have auxiliary power and it is plugged in.

Also, as silent-circuit mentioned, i'm going to remove the codecs that i installed recently...i think they are old. I'll look for the Purevideo thing from nvidia?
 
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