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poor video card performance
Name: a_kraker99 Date: June 29, 2005 at 17:37:48 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 1024
Comment:
my geforce 6200 agp is really chugging when i try to play battlefield 2 with the newest drivers. it worked better with the older drivers. i was told that maybe i didnt have a big enough power supply so i upgraded to 430 watts, but it is still chugging. do you think it might just be a driver issue? i havent found anyone else with this problem.
Name: ham30 Date: June 29, 2005 at 17:45:36 Pacific
Reply:
Newer drivers are not always the best drivers. Programmers can make mistakes in updates.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dragon306 Date: June 29, 2005 at 17:54:59 Pacific
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^^^ there is the simplest explanation. revert back to the old drivers if you can...
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Response Number 3
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: June 29, 2005 at 18:40:32 Pacific
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might want to check the agp settings in the bios as well. one other thing, what other processes are running when you are playing? av/firewall/etc/system defragged?
Although you were told that your 250W PSU was weak, I don't recall anyone suggesting that replacing it woud cure your video card problem. You apparently have something configured wrong...possibly a BIOS setting, wrong or incorrectly installed driver, etc. nVidia gives specific instructions on how to install drivers:
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