Video card question

[Senen]

Not sure what the deal is Kregg but I run a similar system to yours a p4 2gigz 1gig ram gforce 4 ti 4400 128 meg 8xagp card and I run 10 models including horses and have no problems at all. Only thing I think is your drivers are outdated or some other problem with your system but I can assure you its not the lack of a quality vid card. I would look at other parts of my system and make sure there upto date maybe a new cpu or maybe you have a bad stick of ram..

[titanis]

MY main machine:

Asus p4pe-gbl
p4 3.06 watercooled
2 gig ddr 333
80 gig 7200 8mb maxtor
asus geforce4 ti4200 overclocked like crazy

video card fans for tweeking:

http://www.bestbyte.net/Product.cfm?...yID=6&Keyword=

good for the ti 4200 cause you can over clock the 4200 the most.

Then you can try to use tweak xp.

http://www.tweakxp.com/

also if your useing a 5400rpm hd could be the reason for your slowness i had a huge differance when i changed mine to the 7200 in my p3 machine. if your gonna buy parts got to www.newegg.com

then if your using broadband can try this website and and use the windows xp tweaks under then broadband then registry tweaks for 2000/xp:

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157


all i can think of right now kind late good luck.


Titanis

[Pops]

AMD pr3000
ATI 9700 pro

EQ runs like a dream. All graphics options turned up at 1280x1024 and rarely a hint of choppyness once textures are loaded. If it runs better on a nVidia 4600(which is a much slower card) then it would make no difference to me as I am getting all I need to be happy with at the moment.

[Dauvan]

Also, eq is a ram hog. I noticed a lot of difference going from 512 pc133, it decreased going to 256m pc2700, i run with all models on now and no lag with 712m pc2700 right now. The more ram, the better eq runs.

atlhon 1.5g
712m pc 2700
gf3 ti-200

[Ritkhan]

I guess no one remembers when Sony put it on the EQ front page that they were working with nVidia?

heh sorry no. But thanks for bringing that up. It says a lot. And of course, the 9700 and 9800 are so advanced by EQ standards that EQ will run like a dream with them. I guarantee you that EQ2 will run slightly better on a Geforce FX though. Even though everywhere else the ATI will bench higher. No surprise there.

[Giledan]

I would definitely check you HDD and see if it needs defrag. I would check driver setting in the Nvidia tab and see if your running 2x or 4x AA and if so push it to off. Your cpu is the bottleneck if your running any AA. Update drivers also. That tends to help some. YOu should beable to run full mods with very little video lag at all on a ti4600.

My specs are
Xp 1600 @ 1.75ghz
512 mb pc700 DRR 256x2 (proformance degrage from 1 512stick)
Asus Kt3333 mobo
7200rpm 20gig hdd
Chaintech ti4200 oc 305/500 128mb vrs

I run full out no lag with no AA and very little lag at 2x AA. I have high texture setting and 100% luclin mods. Worste comes to worste format and fresh install of XP never hurt. When my proformance starts to degrade I format and it works wonders.

I'm pretty sure its a setting issues the in need of any upgrade.

[Wrathcaster]

Rather than creating yet another computer hardware thread in the General Discussion forum, I'll post it here. What is the benefit of running a dual monitor configuration.. I know nothing about this setup, does it just give you two monitors with the exact same picture? If so, what's the benefit of that ? If not, what exactly does having dual monitors do?

Thanks in advance.

[WarderX]

Originally posted by Wrathcaster
Rather than creating yet another computer hardware thread in the General Discussion forum, I'll post it here. What is the benefit of running a dual monitor configuration.. I know nothing about this setup, does it just give you two monitors with the exact same picture? If so, what's the benefit of that ? If not, what exactly does having dual monitors do?

Thanks in advance.

which video card? nvidia or ati?

edit: nm ill write about how it works givem e a sec.

[WarderX]

Here is an example of what you can choose from using nvidia's nview settings:

Standard = only displayed on 1 monitor.
Clone = same desktop on both monitors
Horizontal span, is one desktop next ot another.
Verticle cpan is one of another.

MY setup is a Kogi l7eh 17.1" 1280x1024 LCD as monitor #1 and a Royal old school 15" CRT 1280x1024 as monitor#2

The LCD is plugged into the DVI port of the ti4600, and the CRT uses the analog port. MY compines desktop space is 2560x1024

Benifets?
-Web design is a lot easier
-Flash is a lot easier

[Suineg]

You could always do that with ATI cards Warder.

Well at least as long as I have been buying them.

[Wrathcaster]

So am I correct in the assumption that using dual monitor configurations you can effectively have bigger pictures/higher resolutions?

If so, cool thanks. Was thinking about trying this out, as I've heard rave reviews of dual monitor configs from various people around these and other boards.

[SinormXev]

Dual moniter is the way to go. Effectivly, it doubles the amount of desktop space you have to work with. I run dual 19" and love it. I can have EQ on one, and surfing the web on the other, or when 2 boxing, have each EQ account on its own window.

So this is what my desktop looks like:
(Oh, and I run 1280x1024 on left, 1600x1200 on right)

[valarin]

dual display in eq is a bad idea generally speaking. I should mention first that multiview from nvidia cards sorta sucks the hydravision from ATI is ALOT better. The big reason NOT use multimonitors is that in so doing you are certainly overtaxing the video card. ( since the card needs to run both outputs and compute each display speratly you end up taxing the GPU and over stretching the onboard memory. This is not a disaster but it does mean your frame rates will drop like a rock.)

The last time I tried to run on 2 monitors I was VERY disappointed with the result. I was running a radeon 9700 (nonpro), 2x 2.4 xeons, 4 gigs ecc pc 2100 on a iwill 7505 based motherboard. This beast of a machine would run it but if I raided with all the graphics on and one toon in each window the frame rates went to crap. Granted this was an extreme example but when you consider the cost of that rig you could build 3 pc's instead....