russraff
Prominent Member
Here it is, then. I am at my wits end trying to get any 3d game working on my PC. It has been like this for a while, now, but there are a couple of games that I want to play that are performing like rubbish. This is what happens:
You begin to play a game with 3D content and the game pauses for 3 second and carries on after like nothing has happened. Often you will hear sounds looping for half the paused time then silence until the game resumes. These pauses can happen as often as every 10 seconds or every 2 minutes. The pauses are quite random and do not occur at the same points.
I have tried one of the games (Rome total war) on the other house PC which is nearly the same as the one I use (specs below) but with an MX440 gfx card and only half a gig of ram. The game runs more slowly but without pauses. So, now I have swapped every componet: memory, graphics card, sound card and even the hard disc (running as a slave) to the working PC, yet they all seem fine. The only thing that is left is the motherboard which is part of a mini PC and is based on the Nforce 3 250gb chipset, so this should be good??
Is there any software issues that I need to worry about regarding this Nvidia chipset??
Athlon 64 3ghz
1 gb ram (matched Geil pair)
6800 GT (128 mb)
Biostar Ideq 210 with Nforce 3 chipset
Audigy 2
160gb ATA hard disc fully defragged.
Help, I don't know what to do next!
Russell
You begin to play a game with 3D content and the game pauses for 3 second and carries on after like nothing has happened. Often you will hear sounds looping for half the paused time then silence until the game resumes. These pauses can happen as often as every 10 seconds or every 2 minutes. The pauses are quite random and do not occur at the same points.
I have tried one of the games (Rome total war) on the other house PC which is nearly the same as the one I use (specs below) but with an MX440 gfx card and only half a gig of ram. The game runs more slowly but without pauses. So, now I have swapped every componet: memory, graphics card, sound card and even the hard disc (running as a slave) to the working PC, yet they all seem fine. The only thing that is left is the motherboard which is part of a mini PC and is based on the Nforce 3 250gb chipset, so this should be good??
Is there any software issues that I need to worry about regarding this Nvidia chipset??
Athlon 64 3ghz
1 gb ram (matched Geil pair)
6800 GT (128 mb)
Biostar Ideq 210 with Nforce 3 chipset
Audigy 2
160gb ATA hard disc fully defragged.
Help, I don't know what to do next!
Russell