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phuz

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January 5th, 2000 00:00

Low Performance....

I have a feeling this problem is more to do with my video card but I am unable to post a message in the video section - I log in and just keep getting the message browsing screen.

I have a Dell dimension XPS T700r and am getting bad performance from it. The system seems to struggle with almost every game I have (Quake3, half-life, systemshock2 etc.) - there are pauses quite often and allround jerky play. The frame rates are too low in Unreal TOurnament and Quake3 especially since I have a Dell GeForce 256. I am positive that I should be getting much better performance with a system with such high spec.

Pentium3 700MHz
128 mb ram
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32mb (Dell)

If anyone else has had problems like this then let me know. Or if you know how to help that would be great.

thanks

(I am also getting very low scores in 3DMark2000)
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    Posted January 5th, 2000 00:00

    I too have a newDEll 700 and had slow performance as icons would take forever to open. I assumed it was at least partly a video problem (have Diamond Viper 770 Ultra) and I found an upgrade driver and installed it to no avail. Did a bunch of standard type things-scandisk, etc but nothing worked. Finally reformatedand installed everyuthing including the upgraded driver and I am in almost heaven.

    Wasn't that hard (just long) and Dell answered one holler for help when I couldn't get a driver in right from the resourse disk. I don't suggest this lightly and I recommend careful planning by backing up all data and keeping tarack of settings. But what a pleasure whern it does the trick.

    Best of luck with your situation.

    KenL
    Klinn32m@earthlink.net


    Kenneth Linn