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Old September 12th, 2005, 12:40 PM
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ne1 had games/screensaver freezes?
ive got a amd sempron 3000+ cpu w/ 128mb geforce4 mx4000 graphics chip, 80gb hd. this cpu is like 4 months old. sometimes my games freeze at the beginning for like 5 seconds or the game may even freeze for good while in the gm. sometimes my microsoft xp plus pack screensavers will freeze up for good when i try to get back to the login screen in xp. everthing else seems to be ok on this cpu. ne1 have suggestions??
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amd semphron 3000+ w/ the socket A
WD sata 80gb hd
128mb geforce4 mx4000 video card
gigabyte 7vt600P-RZ(-C) motherbd
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Old September 13th, 2005, 11:08 AM
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Sounds more graphics card related. The mx4000 is kinda old. What games are you playing?
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Old September 13th, 2005, 12:11 PM
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Sounds more graphics card related. The mx4000 is kinda old. What games are you playing?

stuff like sim city 4, nascar sim racing 05(i know this one had big requirements but im over them still). i just dunno why even my screensavers are slow/freeze....its a friggin 128mb chip. im not much of a pc gm plyr anyway and my friends dell intel 2.8 ghz plus pack screensavers work perfect.
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Old September 13th, 2005, 12:39 PM
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128mb of memory makes little difference compared to the speed of the memory and graphics processor, pipelines, directx version, etc.
What are the reccommended requirements for this nascar game?
I also doubt the screensaver problem is related. To solve that just untick the box "on resume, display welcome screen" in the screensaver menu.
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Old September 13th, 2005, 12:49 PM
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well i have directx 9.0c
sim city requirements: (i have 5 sec freeze at begin of gm)
Intel® Pentium® III processor
PC Processor Speed 500MHz,
PC Operating System Windows XP, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows 2000, Windows 98
PC System Memory 128MB RAM, 256MB RAM for Windows XP PC Hard Drive Space 1GB
PC Video 32MB DirectX 7.0-compatible video card
PC Drive Type and Speed CD-ROM 8x

nascar simracing
Minimum PC System Requirements
PC Processor Speed 1GHz
PC Operating System Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows 2000, Windows XP
PC System Memory 256MB RAM
PC Hard Drive Space 3GB
PC Video DirectX 9.0c-compatible 32MB AGP video card
PC Sound Card DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
PC Drive Type and Speed CD-ROM 8x
PC Additional Requirements Internet service required to access online features
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Old September 23rd, 2005, 08:59 PM
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nevermind, i just got a radeon x700 pro video card it all seems to be fixed.
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nevermind, i just got a new video card it all seems to be fixed


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