6800 help

[Wolfuk]

Hi

I just bought a geforce 6800 and installed drivers from Guru3d 67.22 when i crank up the graphics on halflife 2 the game stutters and keep pauseing at times, will this be down to my pc specs or card my pc is a 1.8xp 512ram the motherboard is a MSI/MS-6380 4X AGP.


Thxs

[mike_w]

Is the CPU actually at 1.8ghz, or is it an 1800+?

When you say you crank up the graphics, how high are the graphics (resolution, AA, etc.)

If you have turned it up high, then an Athlon XP 1800+ (assuming that's what you have) and the 512mb of RAM are more likely to be causing it than the 6800.

[myth]

1.8xp 512ram the motherboard is a MSI/MS-6380 4X AGP.


Thxs

Well theres your problem... That mobo and CPU is bottel necking that 6800's bandwith!

[pudds]

This is a known problem with half life 2, valve are still working on fixes. Check out http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hal...en-GB:official

[Wolfuk]

Is the CPU actually at 1.8ghz, or is it an 1800+?

When you say you crank up the graphics, how high are the graphics (resolution, AA, etc.)

If you have turned it up high, then an Athlon XP 1800+ (assuming that's what you have) and the 512mb of RAM are more likely to be causing it than the 6800.

Sorry its 1800xp , resolution was 1152x864 then 1024x768 texture high /model high,strange as when i ran the game with my old ti4200 it ran ok on the default settings.

what is AA ?

[myth]

Sorry its 1800xp , resolution was 1152x864 then 1024x768 texture high /model high,strange as when i ran the game with my old ti4200 it ran ok on the default settings.

what is AA ?

Antialiasing it removes jaged edges from the graphics but costs you frame rates...

[Wolfuk]

Antialiasing it removes jaged edges from the graphics but costs you frame rates...

oh then that was set default 4x

[myth]

Can you do me a favor? instal Fraps and run it before you launch HL 2

http://www.fraps.com/download.htm

It will tell you how many frams per second are being displayed, then tell us...

[Wolfuk]

Can you do me a favor? instal Fraps and run it before you launch HL 2

http://www.fraps.com/download.htm

It will tell you how many frams per second are being displayed, then tell us...

From 32 upwards to 98 at start but settled to about 32 -45 do that sound right ? as i aint got a clue lol

[myth]

From 32 upwards to 98 at start but settled to about 32 -45 do that sound right ? as i aint got a clue lol

yea, what 6800 do you have? are we talking Ultra, GT or plain 6800?

[Wolfuk]

yea, what 6800 do you have? are we talking Ultra, GT or plain 6800?

Just the plain 6800

[Byatt]

just fyi - you don't need fraps for hl2 - just enable the dev console and type net_graph 1.

[Wolfuk]

Just ran call of duty on the highest options and it ran ok but i think im could now do with a new mobo and cpu plus memory.....jesus what have i started !

[iMc]

haha you have caught the endless upgrade bug, no looking back now.

[Monty]

i have a similar system, just more mem and a faster cpu. and i still had the stuttering in hl2, but after reading around i found out that it was the autosave which was doing it to me, so i went into hl2 folder found where it saves the autosaves and made them read only, this stopped the stuttering for me, maybe it will work for u as well, only drawback is u have to save manually alot.

[Wolfuk]

i have a similar system, just more mem and a faster cpu. and i still had the stuttering in hl2, but after reading around i found out that it was the autosave which was doing it to me, so i went into hl2 folder found where it saves the autosaves and made them read only, this stopped the stuttering for me, maybe it will work for u as well, only drawback is u have to save manually alot.

Cheers i will give it a try