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Poor Performance on my upgrade

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My friend recently upgraded his GF# Mx 400 or something like that some old 64mb card to a 8500Le 128mb. I used driver cleaner to remove the nvidia drivers, then installed the latest cats. but his performance is less than desireable, fps in vietnam with settings at their lowest is like 10fps. All his other games dont function well either.

Is there a way to fix this without formatting? Hes backing up his stuff now for the format, but i was just looking for a second opinion.


Thanks
 
GF#mx = GF3mx typo?

Never was a GF3mx, so are we talking a GF2mx or GF4mx?

If it's a GF4mx, depending on which games you're playing, you're not really looking at too much of an upgrade (other than going from DX7 to DX8).


As for what to do to fix this, if you've cleanly uninstalled the drivers, and performance blows, it's probably faster & easier to reformat than to spend the hours required to track down the problem.
 
even if it was a gf4mx, the preformance difference will definetly be noticeable.
i suggest a reformat.
 
yeah i formatted, and still getting less than desireable performance, like the fps will drop to 10 quite frequently and never really goes over 30, also it sketches sometimes and lags for a second after changing weapons for the first time.

This is after a fresh format and a complete re-install of windows xp pro.

I installed the latest cats and direct x

Turned All eye candy off (2x aa and 2x af, with all sliders on max performance over quality, with the same results.

His system specs:
1.3ghz duron
30gb 5200rpm 2mb cache (i think)
8500LE 128mb
384mb of ram (SD)

IDK whats going on but his system is more than capable to handle battlefield vietnam.

About his old card, i put the # sign because i'm really not sure what model of card he had, but i know its a geforce MX something. Its got the larger style ram (made by hynx)

More input is needed, as this is really starting to bother me.

Thanks a bundle

Nick
 
Battle Field Veitnam...I haven't played it myself, but some of the members of our clan have and they say it does take some decent hardware to run. Namely the in the RAM area. 387MB of RAM is not really all that much anymore.

Isn't the LE version of the 8500 pretty much a castrated version? That card might just not have the ability to run a new game.
 
Turn off AA and AF. Your crazy if you think your going to run BF:V with those specs AND AA/AF... especially with an 8500le.

Other than that more ram would help A LOT. I have a gig of ram and that game uses ~ 700-800mb ram.

EDIT: Just for a reference, my girlfriends computer specs:

Athlon 1.2ghz
512mb pc133
Geforce3 original (not Ti)
Win XP

When running BF1942 (1024x768x32 everything on high) it runs great UNTIL you enable AA/AF. 2xAA / No AF is a little choppy but on the virge of playable. Anything over that = slideshow city. Haven't tried BF:V on it yet but I'm sure it's not pretty. My computer even chugs along sometimes (in sig).
 
read the post i said i turned off all aa and af down to Pure performance on the slider. And i ran battlefield 1942, dc and all the other mods fine, as well as bfv on my computer just fine like flat 100+fps, his computer isent that below mine, so something is wrong, but i just cant figure out what.

EDIT: that was not meant to sound mean :D

i'll loan him my copy of bf1942 to test and see if it is actually just the game being far more demanding than bf1942. I'll keep ya'll posted.

EDIT: and btw before the format fps was the same (crappy) no matter what gfx quality i put it on (high medium and completely low)

Seems to be the trend this time too, with HIgh and medium anyway.
 
Well BF:V is choppy on my system in sig, but i guess its just a problem with 9800pro's for now.
 
Originally posted by zawada101
Well BF:V is choppy on my system in sig, but i guess its just a problem with 9800pro's for now.
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actually i've heard its the nforce motherboards, not the 9800 pros.
 
dude, a duron 1.3 with less than 512MB of SDRAM is definetly not going to be able to run BF:V well at all, regardless of the videocard.
 
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