Spuddeh

mm, i came to the same conclusion at first, was there with all my heat probing apps and prime 95 + a windowed copy of quake3 same result with unvarying temperatures

Any of you seen this before Perfectly stable PC in windows, limitless uptime etc then, when i play any game with hardware accelerated graphics, or any video, my moniter will lose sync, and if i touch a key on the keyboard, or hit the atx power button to induce a shutdown, the sound jams too. This has only started happening recently so i suspect the .39 beta 4/1 drivers may have caused this (cant keep trying things now as i'm at work) but i'd rather have some ideas before i try to tackle the problem again. any posative input greatly appreciated.

Quote: ViC_the_mighty iks You see, Windows XP consumes more processor resources then other Wondows of 9x family. You should upgrade your processor to have more fps in the games under Windows XP. IMHO, the drivers couldn't possibly change the framerate in the games more then for 3-5 fps. not meaning to create an inflamatory environment, or in any way lower the tone of this forum, but you are a complete nubbin 'wondows' is not a member of the windows 9x series your humblest of opinions clearly amounts to nothing, as in my experiance, drivers can give 20 / 30 extra frames per second under certain circumstances, i remember this being especially prominant with the drivers from 7.x to 13.x on my geforce ddr please dont share ignorance, keep it tucked well away where no-one will be influenced by its largely adverse effects and edd_dxb, my experiance is largely the same as yours in that case, my geforce 4 ti loves the 27.70s

good to know i'm not alone in this, but at the same time, its a big disappointment for me, tell me, thymios, do you use any tweaking apps, nvmax perchance? just on the offchance, i'd not tried removing that from mine

i currently use the 27.70s for my visiontek ti 4600, but would prefer to update due to the alleged performance increase given by the later drivers, unfortunately i dont get the nvidia display properties addin (display properties, advanced) i can use Nview quite happily, much as i find it a useless venture on nvidia's part, but as i say, no display properties if anyones had the same experiance, and / or knows of a solution, i'd be most greatful if you'd let me know, thanks any specs you could be interested in are below, and i'm using the latest via 4/1s

It would be interesting to see how one of our computers performed under windows 98 with renegade and the equivilent driver version (i use 27.70) as i know for a fact that windows 2000 has direct 3d performance issues as it is

i have a geforce 4, and unfortunately dont have access to curved surfaces, i suspect they're a radion 7500 / 8500 feature using their 'lets put some more polygons in the hardware layer' technology, the name of which currently escapes me i still get these strage FPS issues when i look away from ANY action, and infact, i find it smoothest, when everyone eles is loading, but the momment i start looking at just a few people...even walking, my fps drops to around 45 for an 1800 athlon xp with a gig of ddr 266 and a geforce 4 on a via 266a chipset mainboard, surely you'd expect a little better out of more demanding games, i love the game, but i'll be honest, i am desgusted by the shoddy general netcode / 3d engine why did they even THINK about releasing it at such an early stage. i'm told there's another patch / addin due for the next week or two this will incorporate flyable orcas, apache and chinooks, as well as modded maps to allow people to land on the roofs of buildings (city i'm told being one of them) now, if this is sorted in an, in my eyes, vital addin (i've always wanted to fly an orca) all is forgiven, but should this fail, i'd not like to be on the recieving end of the e-mail pile they'll find themselves under

i'm not entirely sure on this, but i suspect thats not true hardware raid, i suspect thats merely IDE RAID that causes grief, as i know for a fact that SBS loves the 5 harddisk raid 5 configuration i've set up at a customer's site (with exchange on) can i suggest you look for some better promise drivers

for those of you who dont know how to install windows 2000 with standard PC setup, when you get to the first stage of the windows 2000 install, where it asks you to press the f6 key to install raid / scsi drivers, if you press F5 it'll give you the option to install an alternative PC setup (non ACPI / SMP etc) i suggest you select "Standard PC" as i've found it by far the most stable of the bunch

i always find disabling remote registry manipulation causes no problems, and possibly protects you from a desaster if your administrator password is nothing / blindingly obvious 3rd party apps will also places themselves in the services list if applicable, so i suggest giving the list a browsing, and see what you can see, see if anything makes itself immediately obsolete things such as "<X> Software Registration reminder" are obviously unnessecary, and if particularly poorly optimised, will feast on your clock cycles and possibly memory

i find i get that exact error if i use certain nvidia drivers (pre 11.xx) can you fill us in on your driver versions at all?

Cable select i find to be more unrelaiable on older hard disks / mainboards, and hence i always configure mine in a master / slave configuration, i've not found any disadvantage with all new kit mind you, but i'm still quite strictly abiding to the master / slave setup

lets be honest, its desgusting that microsoft should make such a collosal cockup between departments, their ignorance has cost them my custom, and that of many others if anyone out there can be arsed to re-code the XP mouse engine, kindly do so, but you'll have to prise my wallet from my cold dead fingers before i pay for a copy of XP

I've tried PS/2 and i still have the same problem, it would appear to be a slightly lesser extent, but still certainly the same immense lag before moving at correct speed, anyone who can rectify this for me will earn my eternal grattitude :]

indeed so, its a mild yet noticable sensation, although its non directional, it gives the impression of recoil and as though you're touching over bumps in windows, and even feeling the weight of a large folder (more files contained = more weight) i like it, but its a considerably heavier mouse than the standard mouseman optical