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Plus! Aquarium keeps hesitating
Name: Dee Date: September 7, 2003 at 16:58:28 Pacific OS: Win XP Home Version 2002 CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
A couple of months ago, my Plus! Aquarium screensaver starting "burping" or hesitating every couple of seconds. Makes the fish swim in herky jerky motions.
Has anyone else had this problem and if so how did you resolve the problem?
Name: Syzygy Date: September 7, 2003 at 22:26:34 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like a graphics card problem to me.
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Response Number 2
Name: ... Date: September 8, 2003 at 08:05:24 Pacific
Reply:
it will hesitate like that if your graphics card can't handle it. Try lowering the screen resolution, or tweaking the settings lower so that they use less resources....
Or get a new graphics card...sometimes overclocking your old one might help, but that's not usually a good thing
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Response Number 3
Name: Dee Date: September 9, 2003 at 09:48:06 Pacific
Reply:
I'll try lowering the screen resolution, but don't know what you mean by "tweaking" the settings so that they use less resources. Would you please elaborate on that?
Laptop is just a year old. It seems strange that the aquarium screensaver would work fine for almost a year and then start doing that.... Any thoughts on why that would happen?
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plz help, outlook express...
