AGP unique problem

[chimchim765]

Hi, AGP texture acceleration doesn't do anything for my computer performance. I have a 1.6 ghz, geforce 4200 ti, 384 pc133 ram, and a intel 845 motherboard (dell). I get horrible fps in wolfenstien and day of defeat. Drops to 30 alot. I should be able to rip those games apart. I play on low settings and resolutions. AGP texture accerlation does nothing for performance. Same with and without. I have latest intel chipset drivers, newest bios, 40.72 nvidia drivers, and Windows xp, direct x 9.0b. Please someone help me out. Thanks alot.

[Gettinbye]

How many processes do you have running in the background? Could be that your system performance is being slowed by background operations.

[CanNiBaL513]

right click on ur desktop, go to properties... then go to the settings tab, click advanced, then go to (geforce 4 Ti 4200) i think... im guessing cuz for me it is geforce4 mx 420..
after going to that tab...tell me what is said for
Bus:

[chimchim765]

The screen says bus:AGP 4x, Memory :128
I have no idea what is wrong with it. Could low power be causing sub par performance. My dell comes with a 250W that they say is underrated is more like 340 W. I don't know what the cause. Might be crappy dell motherboard.

[lost-and-found]

hmmm, usually PSUs are overrated not underrated, for example don't expect the usual 300W PSU to run up to 300W

[John Prophet]

windows xp comes with a lot of "junk" running in the background that youll never ever need.

crap like "smart card helper", lol. or "help and support" or "portable media serial number" or even "performance logs and alerts"

What you need to do is turn off the stuff you dont need..to free up some resources etc.

go here http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

it tells you how to disable the unneeded services.

I use the "safe" configuration. He may have changed it now but one of the services he recommends to turn off will disable the firewall, i cant remember which one..but when you run 'services.msc" you can look at the firewall properties and click 'dependencies' and find out what the firewall depends on and dont turn any of that stuff off.

Also, maybe you have antivirus running when you are playing?? Maybe that is loading you down some?



JP

[chimchim765]

I have read on the dell forums that the power supply is underrated on dells. If I did have 250W power supply trying to power my Geforce 4 ti and my 1.6 ghz system would that cause the performance decrease. The system runs great in indoor environments like 120 fps in unreal tournament 2003 and then outside when lots to render boom 31, 29 fps. Could the graphics card not be getting enough juice to render that stuff. I just wanna isolate the problem. Getting a new PSU for dell computers is expensive because they have to be custom made. Stupid dell.

[Peter M]

Well, welcome to the real world.

Fact (1): AGP texture "acceleration" is not even getting used with today's graphics cards thanks to their large local storage.

Fact (2): Thanks to its being crippled from the original design, the Pentium 4 is very very dependant on having fast system RAM. With SDR RAM, it's going to stink.

_That_ is your bottleneck.

[John Prophet]

yeah, sdram on a P4 is kinda limiting the P4 down quite a bit.

If it really were the power supply I think youd be getting more than low frame rates..youd be getting blackouts, brownouts and shutdowns, lol.

[chimchim765]

I had a dimension 8100 with 850 chipset that supported rdram. 256 mb of rdram. That setup ran worse than this computer with the sdram. I had the same geforce 4200 ti. Is rdram really bad too?