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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / September 2007New computer slower than old one?
Just got a brand-new HP Pavilion, 3 GB of ram, Windows Vista. Unfortunately, it seems to run slower than my old one with 512 MB! At least at Counter-Strike it does. Dropped all the video switches to the bottom, even though it recommended far higher, still kind of choppy with more than a few bots. No real video card, just integrated graphics with 128 MB, probably buy a card someday, but it's no worse than my old PC. I know Vista takes lots of ram, but I was hoping for a little boost with 3 GB! Only other thing running is Windows Sidebar..... Just hoping there's something I'm not thinking of, maybe? Thanks, all! Mike O- >Just hoping there's something I'm not thinking of, maybe? Stating what graphics card you used to have and what integrated graphics your new machine has. If it is an Intel integrated chipset, it will be worse than abysmal for gaming.  SignatureAndrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. >Just got a brand-new HP Pavilion, 3 GB of ram, Windows Vista. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Thanks, all! It doesn't matter how much RAM you have if you have a bad graphics card as you say that you do (as it'll cause a bottleneck in performance). Intergrated chips are never going to run games all that well. Spend a bit of money on a card and then you'll see how well your rig can perform.... > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:08:16 -0700, "Sgt.Mikey" > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanks for your replies, guys. I see Winupdate d/l'd something, supposed to help with performance. Not hoping for much, but still.... I see "Marvel Ultimate Alliance" needs a card with 256 MB of ram, so I'll be getting one of those at some point. Thanks again! Mike O- > No real video card, just integrated graphics with 128 MB, probably buy > a card someday, but it's no worse than my old PC. I never heard of integrated graphics card having more than 32 MB memory... >> No real video card, just integrated graphics with 128 MB, probably buy >> a card someday, but it's no worse than my old PC. > >I never heard of integrated graphics card having more than 32 MB >memory... They usually share main memory and you can decide how much you want to give them. SignatureAndrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:58:16 -0700, Beladi Nasralla > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > They usually share main memory and you can decide how much you want to > give them. Really ? For a while, I was using a computer with an integrated graphics card for playing games. I discovered that my computer was fast enough to play some games (e.g. GTA: San Andreas), but could not run them. I discovered that the game required at least 64 MB video memory, and the graphics card had only 32 MB. I did a search inside of the BIOS, and discovered the option something like: "Use the CPU memory to complement the integrated GPU memory, thus boosting it from 32 to 64 MB". I triggered this option... but the game still did not run. (The processor was AMD 64 2GHz.) > > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:58:16 -0700, Beladi Nasralla > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 32 to 64 MB". I triggered this option... but the game still did not > run. (The processor was AMD 64 2GHz.) Anybody answer me how to enable 64 MB of memory when you have only 32 MB of memory in the integrated graphics card ? >> > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:58:16 -0700, Beladi Nasralla >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >Anybody answer me how to enable 64 MB of memory when you have only 32 >MB of memory in the integrated graphics card ? What game are you trying to play? Maybe your intergrated graphics chip set (you do not have a "video card") is not powerful enough to run it. Legion On Sep 14, 3:35 pm, Leg...@l.com wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:48:04 -0700, Beladi Nasralla > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Maybe your intergrated graphics chip set (you do not have a "video > card") is not powerful enough to run it. GTA: San Antonio >On Sep 14, 3:35 pm, Leg...@l.com wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >GTA: San Antonio Hmm...you need: (Minimum spec) WinXP, DirectX 9.0c , 64Mb VIDEO CARD (Geforce3 or better),256 Mbs of ram. Legion On Sep 15, 3:38 pm, Leg...@l.com wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:51:56 -0700, Beladi Nasralla > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > Hmm...you need: (Minimum spec) WinXP, DirectX 9.0c , 64Mb VIDEO CARD > (Geforce3 or better),256 Mbs of ram. So, can I use the integrated graphics card ? Bump the memory to 64 MB ? >On Sep 15, 3:38 pm, Leg...@l.com wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >So, can I use the integrated graphics card ? Bump the memory to 64 >MB ? Don't think so. I thought you tried that and it didn't work/ Good luck. PS I'm haveing a blast playing Bioshock and MOH Airborn! (didn't mean to gloat <g>). Legion On Sep 16, 3:30 pm, Leg...@l.com wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:54:34 -0700, Beladi Nasralla > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > > Legion My computer has Athlon X2 and 7600GT. I am also playing Bioshock at the moment. Someone in my family has this unupgradeable Acer computer and wants to play GTA:SA. Yes, I tried to increase in BIOS the amount of available memory to the integrated graphics card from 32 MB and 64 MB, and it did not work. But perhaps I missed something else which was important at making it work; thus I asked. |
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