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Old February 1st, 2005, 06:45 PM
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Whats Bottlenecking Me???
Heres my set up

P4 2.0 ghz
512 mb pc2700 ddr ram
bfg geforce 6800 128 mb


I'm using farcry as a benchmark and it just doesn't seem to be going at it's full capacity. I'm wondering why parts of my ground are blacked out, colors seem way to bright and weird. the water doesn't reflect like i've seen screen shots of it.

I'm wondering what i can do to boost my performance on farcry.

having a 6800 running my system i have high expectations so it would be great if anyone could get back to me on what a easy fix would be (cheap too would be awesome)

i'm thinking eventually i'm going to to spend quite a bit of money on rebuilding my system since right now i'm just running on a compaq motherboard that came with the original system i took apart to build my current set up.

any advice would be helpfull, thanks
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Old February 1st, 2005, 09:43 PM
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If your video card DSP is overheating, the result can be color shift and aliasing.

Try adding a PCI slot fan next to the video board to cool the DSP.
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Old February 1st, 2005, 10:15 PM
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Cooling
the bfg 6800 has a major cooling component on it and i don't think it's over heating, it's quite cool to the touch while running.
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Old February 2nd, 2005, 07:15 AM
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the bfg 6800 has a major cooling component on it and i don't think it's over heating, it's quite cool to the touch while running.

Have you opened your AGP slot to at least 128M in the BIOS?
Is the slot running at the appropriate speed for the card?
Have you set the game up to the appropriate texture and detail levels?
Haxe you tried something else to calibrate you video colors and detail in a static setting? (some video cards come with calibration software)
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Have you opened your AGP slot to at least 128M in the BIOS?
Is the slot running at the appropriate speed for the card?
Have you set the game up to the appropriate texture and detail levels?
Haxe you tried something else to calibrate you video colors and detail in a static setting? (some video cards come with calibration software)



I'm not sure if i can set the agp slot to any specific settings, the bios is just the standard compaq bios. since it cam as a package deal it wasn't really made to be majorly changed. How exactly do you set teh agp to 128m? and also how do you change teh agp speed? I have changed the settings in teh game to highest settings and varied modifications of that and still not been happy with the resaults.
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Old February 2nd, 2005, 04:55 PM
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have you maxed out the settings and patch it up to 1.3 yet?
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yes
I got the 1.3 patch and the settings still dont' work well maxed.
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I suggest you update your driver software for your video card.
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Your bottlenecking is definetly your CPU, with a 6800GT you won't feel the effects of the card at its full potential unless you upgrade your CPU.
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Old February 4th, 2005, 07:34 PM
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yeah
thats kind of what i thought. thats an expensive upgrade yikes.
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