Frame Rate Low?

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struby

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I recently got the game Guild Wars and purchased a 512 mb ram module, putting me a 768 mb of ram, but Guild wars is still jumpy, I guess that is called a low frame rate, even with lowered game quality and such. Is there some way I can help this, for instance, is it something that increasing my virtual memory or something would help?
 
upgrading RAM probably wouldnt have had any effect on games at all. I would say that its your graphics card thats lagging, not your RAM. Need specs to see though.
 
dragon2309 said:
upgrading RAM probably wouldnt have had any effect on games at all. I would say that its your graphics card thats lagging, not your RAM. Need specs to see though.
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ram helps alot in games, upgrading from 256 to 768MB would of made a significant diffrence, but its still probably due to the graphics card
 
Some games you can allocate system ram to "help" video card... What video card do you have? Intergrated? eheh
 
Thanks for the responses guys, sorry I haven't checked this out in a while.
Ok, here is some info to help you better help me:
The RAM did help, but it is still jumpy some.
I have a dell, about a 2 g
pentium 4
768 mb of RAM now
I think my graphics card is just an Intel or whatever came with my computer, and I have been told and looked up in my book for my computer that I only have a PCI slot, maybe I could look into that, allocating memory to help my video card thing, because it seams that nobody thinks highly of getting a PCI video card.
 
If you do have 'Intel Extreme Graphics' and no AGP slot you'll have to look at PCI video cards. I believe a FX5700LE will be the best card that will fit your computer.
 
Ok, thanks for the help, um...are you pretty sure that will get the job done, because I was told pci was getting pretty outdated, or is that just in comparison to AGP, and a good PCI card would still be better than mine?
and yeah, Intel Extreme Graphics Card sounds familiar.
where would be the best place to get one of those cards you mentioned...cheapest.
 
assuming you have no AGP, yes PCI is the best you can do and yes it will be much better than your current onboard.
 
my intel extreme graphics ran battlefield vietnam at 3 frames a second..and my fx 5500 is running it at around 20. So a 5700le would run your game alot better.
 
Excellent, but I do still have a few questions.
Are they easy to put in?
Do I take out my old one and put int the new one, or do I just put the second one in?
The cheapest one I found is looking like $99.99 bottom line price at www.NewEgg.com how much cheaper is like, an fx5500, and how much better than that is the 5700, you know, is there a better value for a card?
 
since you have integrated graphics now you cannot take it out, just plug the card into an open PCI slot and plug your monitor into it. An FX5500 for all intents and purposes is an overclocked FX5200, but it is still better than your onboard.
 
5700LE Performance
• Graphic Core: 256-bit
• Memory Interface: 128-bit
• Fill Rate: 1.9 billion texels/sec.
• Pixel per clock (peak):4
• Vertices per Second: 187.5 million
• Textures per pixel (max in a single rendering pass): 16
• Dual RAMDACs (MHz): 400

5500 Performance
• Graphics Core: 256-bit
• Memory Interface: 128-bit
• Fill Rate: 1.1 billion texels/sec.
• Vertices per Second: 68 million
• Pixel per clock (peak): 4
• Textures per pixel (max in a single rendering pass): 16
• Dual RAMDACs: 350MHz
 
the 5700 will not run bf2 "a lot" better. the 5500 has 2 pixel pipelines while the 5700 has 4 and about twice as many transistors. will probably bring 10 more fps.
 
So the way it looks I should go with the 5700, which I will determine when I check the 5500's prices, and I was looking to play Guild Wars. Do you guys think it will still run jumpy?
 
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