Problem with my graphics card.
August 5th, 2016
Because google hasn’t been useful, I’ve decided to come to my local w-bb and ask you real people for some help. I have recently noticed with my (coming up to) 2 year old computer, that I’m having alot of issues regarding crashes and freezes. Sometimes if i slam my desk real hard, the computer freezes? Sometimes on boot the BIOS screens go real funny. Another thing i have noticed with this, is that games i used to be able to play lag free at around 60-90 fps, are now lagging and vary from 10-20.
This is an issue I am fed up with. I have tested this theory on a game i know has an FPS counter countinously, Live for Speed. I would usually get 90-100 fps. At times, i get to as low as 2.3 fps.
System specs are:
CPU: Asus p5p800-VM 3ghz
RAM: 2gb 184PIN DDR
GFX: 256mb nVidia GeForce 6600GT
HDD: 80GB internal, 300GB external
Soundcard: C-Media 8733
OS: Microsoft XP Home SP2
Thankyou for your help and support.
Slamming what your PC tower is sitting on can temporarily cause shorts, crashes and even loosen connections. Re-check all the internal connections in your case. Make sure all your cards/ram are seated properly. And has your vid card been loud lately or anything you have noticed besides a decrease in FPS?
I’m not actually slamming the tower, its the desk. But the tower must vibrate though it?
I’ve taken it all out, cleaned it, put it all back in.
Last night i had the side off, and the card’s fan slows down once XP boots? Would some BIOS setting’s be causing it?
get speedfan to check your temps, it’s free
what resolution you running your games @ ? same as before ?
any hardware changes at all in the 2 yrs ?
you also remove & reseat the CPU ?
try uninstalling your display adapter in device mgr & reboot, letting windows reinstall it
then install the latest drivers
if you’ve installed the 160 series driver try going back to the 90 series
Im running my games are the same, and they lag. But if i reduce the resoultion, it’s the excat same? I’ve added an extra gig of ram recently, but this was happening abit before that. I put 90 series back on, and im doing a virus scan, so hopefully it fixes up.
Might even give it another reformat.