graphics impresions?

It's ussaly caused by not having enough free RAM, or possibly not a good enough CPU.

You can try and cut down on your ram usage, or buy more ram for your computer.
 
Thanks! I have a Pentium 4 140 mhz processor.

but only 128 MB RAM.

so the RAM is probably the problem there right?

I have RDRAM, any recommendations on type etc...

Thanks again!
 
If your talking about when a window smears its image across the screen, the is because a program is using a lot of CPU and this takes away from other programs able to use the CPU and cause it to not respond. When a window is not responding, nothing in that window is active and when an active window moves over it, windows can't refresh the unresposive window and thus causes smearing. This can even happen to really fast comps because some programs just use a lot of your CPU and leave nothing for other programs. RAM also plays a role too.
 
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Xycron said:
It's ussaly caused by not having enough free RAM, or possibly not a good enough CPU.

You can try and cut down on your ram usage, or buy more ram for your computer.
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It happens on my computer sometimes to. But as you said, it happens when a program is using alot of your cpu usage.
 
Thanks a lot guys! I don't know how I got along without this place. I think I'll be around here a lot more!

I'll get some new RAM and see what happens.

Any suggestions on the RDRAM? I know nothing aobut it...
 
Thanks! I have a Pentium 4 140 mhz processor.

but only 128 MB RAM.

so the RAM is probably the problem there right?
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Well you can find out if its the ram limiting you by checking to see if you have any free physical memory in task manager (you prolly do have a ram bottleneck). What your doing seems to be a CPU intensive task too so that would also be a bottleneck

Any suggestions on the RDRAM? I know nothing aobut it...
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It's been discontinued for several years now. Still buyable (expensive as hell tho). But i would seriously put some thought into things before investing in dead tech :)
 
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