I got a new graphics card but i need help IO finnally got a new Grpahics card for my computer. Its a G-Force FX 5200 Everything is good until i load any houses that are big. Or have a lot of things in them. Then the gameplay gets REALLY SLOW. I even lower th e graphics. (which sorta helps) but its still slow. Please help me
Well.... My gfame slows a little in my big mansions, but not a lot. That is because my cards has 256 meg of ram and my comp has 1 gig. How much RAM are you using? You may need more.
Ram Look under Control Panel --> System On the first page you'll see your basic comp specs, including RAM and CPU speed. For your video card, you can usually see a splash of its stats when your monitor activates during computer startup. Also, look in the documentation that came with your card. I hate to be a pessimist, but if you went the cheap route on your card it might be anirexic for RAM--keep in mind less than 128 will run current games solwly under heavy polygon load.
In your previous message you said: Processer - Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz, ~1.8GHz Memory - 512MB RAM If turning down your graphics options to the minimum on everything (the starting point), then you need to look at other things. (If it works great on Have you updated your drivers for your graphics card and your motherboard? Check with Vaio for the motherboard drivers. Get the Nvidia driver here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp (Make sure that the driver is newer than the ones that end in either 61 76 or 61 77 as they weren't very good for FX5200s, but the newer ones will work.) Another thing to do is make sure all background tasks are shut down (antiviral programs, browsers, graphics programs, and anything else that isn't directly related to the game.) The manual has the full directions on how to do that. And also check your computer for spyware and viruses (while the game is off, of course). A combination of the free programs for Lavasoft's Adaware and Spybot seems to cover things the best and they are free. Download.com has both of them I believe. (Lavasoft sends you to download.com at least.) Do a disc cleanup and defrag. Do the defrag even if the program says you "don't need it." It will keep saying that until even a business program won't run as that's what they are set up to ensure runs. Games tend to not only chew up the drive faster but they also are more sensitive to fragmentation than a business program. (Same with graphics programs. They're more sensitive too.) It's a good idea to do a nightly defrag if you have a crowded hard drive. (IE, the harddrive needs to have at least 15% free to even run a defrag and 25% is "crowded.") A defragged or crowded harddrive will run slower (as well as have freezes and crashes) because it's harder for it to find the information. If you've done all of the above, then try turning down your graphics options to the minimum on everything (the starting point). Then fiddle with increasing the options on the things you want the most. Do it little by little until the game runs reasonablly at least. You still don't have the fastest processor or the most RAM or the highest available graphics card, so you'll have to make some sacrifices until you've saved enough money for your next computer: save for the top of the line at least. Computer games are only going to need more out of the computer in the future. Since your current computer will do what you need for this game and for any educational uses your computer is used for, then you have at least some time to save for your next computer.
Also, the easiest way to find out how much free RAM you have is to Control+Alt+Delete, select the Performance tab, and look under Physical Memory. It'll list the total RAM and free RAM in kilobytes. Since the card is a FX5200, I'd expect there to be some slowdown problems. Update the driver by going to www.nvidia.com and see if it runs faster. Many people agree that the FX5200 is a rather... lackluster video card.
