help needed, 9800Gt

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Sulph

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Hi all, this is my first post so be nice!

I've decided to put this thread in here as i think this is a problem with my graphics card more than anything else.

I've always been a bit of a gamer but I’ve been having problems recently and I can’t figure it out at all.

I've just got a new computer:
Asus P5KPL Motherboard,
1 GB DDR Ram,
1TB HDD,
Intel 6600 Quad core,
9800GT 1 GB GeForce.

However I’m having a lot of problems running games, particularly Fallout 3 and Unreal Tournament 3, Fallout just freezes, i cant Ctrl+Alt+Del out, and am forced to hard reboot, UT3 pixel swarms the screen, again, with no possibility of escaping. I have checked (and installed) the latest drivers for my mother board and graphics card. I have checked that nothing is getting too hot (frequently I can turn my computer on and play games straight off and they crash s o I know it’s not a heating issue) and I have check other forums to find if anyone else if having the same problems. Most of these say about altering files in the games folder (tried this) and trying different drivers, but when I first had the computer everything was installed from cd so I’m thinking that those would be classed as 'old' drivers.

Can anyone help me? Is it a problem with my motherboard? Or is it that I don’t have enough RAM?

Thank you for any help you can give, and if I’ve missed anything out feel free to point it out.

Thanks again

Sulph
 
I would say your problem is that you don't have enough ram. The game is running out of resources. Between your OS and the gaming the 1 gig doesn't cut it. Depending on your OS 32/64 bit shoot for at least 3 gigs of ram.
 
Cool, yeah i've been thinking about that for a while. Just ordered another stick of 1gb so that will go side by side with my 1gb. Quick question, if i wanted to upgrade to 4 would two sticks of 2 be better, or could i go for 4 sticks of 1gb?
 
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RAM is deffintely ur prob. and do u have a DDR or DDR2 . Having DDR may also be a problem for u ...:o
 
Sulph said:
Cool, yeah i've been thinking about that for a while. Just ordered another stick of 1gb so that will go side by side with my 1gb. Quick question, if i wanted to upgrade to 4 would two sticks of 2 be better, or could i go for 4 sticks of 1gb?
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2 sticks of 2 is slightly faster, but just barely. But getting a 2x2 kit is so cheap now so that wouldn't be a bad idea (as long as your OS is 64 bit)
 
if you have the 32bit version, thats still okay as you would only be losing 512mb of RAM if you were to get 2x2gb
 
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