[mipmip3]

Hi,
I was having little random freezes problem in 3d games(Need for speed most wanted for example(even with lowest details and resolution...) i tried everything(almost) i even changed my motherboard and supply power...
recently i tried this weird idea of someone in the web :
He suggested changing the "CPU to AGP2.0/AGP3.0" System Device to "PCI to PCI Bridge"...(in Device Manager)

it highly improved performance!!!
but i dont understand what it really does and what im loosing here ??! :-*()

Please advice
Regards,
mipmip


im working on win2000 pro
P2.4 intel 768 RAM 333 ddr
agp x8 256 ddr Gigabyte radeon 9600 pro

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[hans5849]

Your CPU seems to be your bottle neck there, what is that a 2.4 A or B

[mipmip3]

2.4A

Regards,
mipmip

[mipmip3]

Anybody can help ?

[Goofus Maximus]

What 3D games does this happen on? Does it do it with certain games (Source games, for instance, do this to everyone with a less-than-stellar or overclocked system) or does it affect every game, no matter how old and small (like Quake Classic or Half Life original)?

Off hand, with less than 1 Gig of memory, running Windows XP, and with an unknown amount of background processes (like Instant Messengers, or all those "quickstart" features of several programs, that start up at boot-time, so that Office, Adobe, and Quicktime seem "peppier"), your games might just be causing a lot of swapping to the HDD, which will cause freezes like that, since you have to wait till the memory is moved around before your game can use it...

[hans5849]

look around for some software called executive software diskeeper run a scan, you MFT may need to be extended if its set at a tiny size