Is My System Underperforming?
zoda
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7175Members
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7175Members
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">anyone with 500mhz read it's a K6-2</div> <b>original setup:</b>
Acer v75M Mobo
AMD K6-2 500mhz processor
96MB SDRAM (PC100)
13GB HD
CTX monitor
CDRom
CDRW
3.5" disk
56k modem
145 Watt Power supply
on board graphics
on board sound
<b>current setup:</b>
Acer v75M Mobo
AMD K6-2 500mhz processor
256MB SDRAM 133 (max supported by mobo)
13GB HD
CTX monitor
CDRom
CDRW
3.5" disk
Visiontek Nvidia Geforce4MX 420 64MB PCI (I dont have agp)
Linskys 10/100 LAN card
Efficent Networks ADSL speedstream 5360 modem
300 Watt power supply
on board sound
OS: Windows 98SE
16BPS, 600x480 (opengl)
I have seen little difference in CS or NS after upgrading my RAM and PSU, but beside's that I have dudes playing NS online telling me they can play fine with a 35-500mhz CPU and sometimes even less ram and a worse GPU.... When I play it will go to 4 fps after a few thigns are built and It is nearly impossible to attack the enemy because it lags like I am on 56k and I cant follow the enemy with the crosshair.
I have heard k6-2's are bad for gaming, but are they actually worse than pentiums of equal speed???
If anyone has a similiar system or thinks they know anything please reply. I would love to know how other people who have k6-2's perform.
Acer v75M Mobo
AMD K6-2 500mhz processor
96MB SDRAM (PC100)
13GB HD
CTX monitor
CDRom
CDRW
3.5" disk
56k modem
145 Watt Power supply
on board graphics
on board sound
<b>current setup:</b>
Acer v75M Mobo
AMD K6-2 500mhz processor
256MB SDRAM 133 (max supported by mobo)
13GB HD
CTX monitor
CDRom
CDRW
3.5" disk
Visiontek Nvidia Geforce4MX 420 64MB PCI (I dont have agp)
Linskys 10/100 LAN card
Efficent Networks ADSL speedstream 5360 modem
300 Watt power supply
on board sound
OS: Windows 98SE
16BPS, 600x480 (opengl)
I have seen little difference in CS or NS after upgrading my RAM and PSU, but beside's that I have dudes playing NS online telling me they can play fine with a 35-500mhz CPU and sometimes even less ram and a worse GPU.... When I play it will go to 4 fps after a few thigns are built and It is nearly impossible to attack the enemy because it lags like I am on 56k and I cant follow the enemy with the crosshair.
I have heard k6-2's are bad for gaming, but are they actually worse than pentiums of equal speed???
If anyone has a similiar system or thinks they know anything please reply. I would love to know how other people who have k6-2's perform.
Comments
Do you have the latest drivers?
How many programms are runing in background?
i realy dont know what it coulb be... but my brother has nearly the same problem with a p2 450 mhz and a voodoo 3 3000 and 128 mb ram
Motherboard - IDE drivers or any host controller drivers
Graphics Card
Sound Card (yep your sound card east up CPU too)
Download the Latest Version of Direct X
and tell us what happens. Alos, try direct 3d and see if you get any difference in FSP
well anyway, im coming up to a point - do u know that in order to use ur new geforce 4 to full extend u will at least want a P III 600-800 and K6-2 is not even anywhere near that. so best way to have ns play fast is getting a new motherboard and CPU, if ur on the budget, go for amd duron, it got a good bang for very little buck....
respect to all of those with crap PC, hehe, i was a member of that club as well untill quite recently <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I read the low FPS thing and it didn't help.. except that gl_pimpc (or something ike that) made my pistol show animation when I set it to 0 when before it has no sound and shows animation for only the first shot.. , however now it is messed up again and that wont fix it.
I run defrag regurally, have ad-aware and NAV2002 the new nvidia drivers screw up my dxdiag and give me errors,.
D3D and Opengl give me little change.. no fps change, but the opengl seems to run smoother.
here's the programs I run in the background (while playing CS):
Explorer - If I
systray - same as explorer
Aptezbp -allows my keyboard to use quick buttons (sound, cd's,ect)
Conmgr - allows internet to go online
Rnaapp - another thing for my modem
winpppoverethernet/winpoet - another thing for DSL
Is it just cable that is always connect or should my DSL be doing it too? I have to sign on first normally, but I have it set to automatically pop up with the connect.
thanks guys... my PC hates me.
try software mode for the video.
yes k6-2's do suck(i had one <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> hated it) if you can get a copy of win xp it runs a lot better than 98 at least it does on my brother's k6-2 400.
another problem is that your video card is running pci which is a lot slower than agp, try using your settings to add to the amount of ram it will allow.