Choppily Running PC

[The_Techie]

the only things installed are all windows updates, the lastest drivers i've just stated and Civilizations 4

Are there any unknown devices listed in Device Manager?

 

[Picard]

It is necessary to necessarilly install the latest graphics drivers. Any old driver will also do, like the card original driver on the CD. The PC should run just fine.

However if you want to play games a newish driver is needed. I say newish because NVIDIA hasn't always released a bug free driver the first time.

If you ask; what about ATI ... don't know about ATI ... don't care.

 

[|tera|]

What were your reasons for formatting?

 

[ajm5082]

I have the newest latest graphics drivers... i took out the smaller ram stick and everything appears to be working fine. what does that indicate? bad ram stick? or is there some cure for that?

 

[feo]

I have the newest latest graphics drivers... i took out the smaller ram stick and everything appears to be working fine. what does that indicate? bad ram stick? or is there some cure for that?

Bad RAM, you need a new stick, preferably dump both of them and buy a set of good quality RAM.

 

[|tera|]

Bad RAM, you need a new stick, preferably dump both of them and buy a set of good quality RAM.

Go fly a kite buster!

 

[Picard]

The cure for a bad RAM stick? ... Leave it out.

 

[feo]

Go fly a kite buster!

You're just jealous I solved his problem.

 

[|tera|]

You're just jealous I solved his problem.

What did you solve? You can't even solve a solution of glue to a match stick!

 

[feo]

What did you solve? You can't even solve a solution of glue to a match stick!

Speaking of glue, you sound like you're high on the stuff right now.

 

[ajm5082]

well doing that solved the clunky internet explorer thing but the game doesn't work right still. but that might be something else

 

[feo]

You said you have 768MB of RAM, taking the smaller stick out leave you with 512MB (I assume) which is not a lot. What game are you playing and what's the minimum RAM requirements for it?

 

[Picard]

You said you have 768MB of RAM, taking the smaller stick out leave you with 512MB (I assume) which is not a lot. What game are you playing and what's the minimum RAM requirements for it?

It's not much of a difference. Games that won't run on 512 won't run on 768 either.

 

[ajm5082]

Civilizations 4. it ran earlier but then in the last few months things have went awry with it, thus the reformat, (suspected a virus) and figured that was the best solution. but it didnt do much

 

[|tera|]

Speaking of glue, you sound like you're high on the stuff right now.

Nah, just pulling your leg

 

[Picard]

Speaking of glue, you sound like you're high on the stuff right now.

Owned

 

[|tera|]

Owned

Owned? I think not. Feo, go fly a kite!

 

[jsxza]

Something else to check..

Make sure that your hard drive / optical drive are both using DMA mode. The motherboard drivers are supposed to enable it but I've seen some of the older ones that missed it. DMA can even make the cursor get stuck on every hdd/cd access.

No DMA make beeeg choppy choppy on my pee ceee.