Installed new video card and ram, but gaming is super-slow

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corgonin

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Dunno if this is the right place but eh, oh well.

I bought a Radeon 9600PRO 256MB 128-bit DDR AGP Video Card, and a gig of ram. Before I couldn't play any games but now I can, so I bought the Sims 2 and installed it since my computer meets the minimum specs. Graphics are okay, but the game performance is extremely slow. This is the only game I have so I have nothing else to test my computer with.

I've tried everything to speed it up - defragmenting, disk cleanup, deleting a few gigs of my stuff, but it's still really slow. I'm guessing that it's because of my harddrive. It has 40 gigs, but I'm already using up 28 gigs with 12 gigs of free space. Help, please?

My system specs:
Window XP home edition
2.4 ghz Intel Celeron processor
1 gig of RAM
The said video card
40 gb hardrive (12 gb free space)
 
its not just amount of RAM, its speed, and speed of your harddrive and chipset, not to mention that celeron is not a fast processor. im not familiar with the SIMs so i dont know if its a very graphics intensive game. do you know the speed of your RAM and what kind of motherboard you have?
 
i think its because your cpu is not all that great...i have a 9600 pro with a budget sempron 2800+ and i could play fear on medium and prey etc with no problems or lag.
 
Download Halo, NFS demo or something and see what you get. Any demo game will do. And see in task manager if anything is slowing it down.
 
If you BIOS allows, disable Serial/Parallel ports if you do not use any of them. Most people neglect this but those ports actually create more heat inside your case.

Turn off any programs that are running in the background which has nothing to do with the game you play as these are taking up physical/virtual memory as well as some of the CPU power. Also disable any Windows Processes that you do not use/need such as Messenger(not MSN), Net Meeting, IPSEC, Telnet...etc.
 
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