Very Odd Dilema

**MasterAdnin** · October 12, 2006, 09:08 PM

Okay, so yesterday I overclocked my video card to play Medeval total War 2. I started playing with all the settings at the lowest, but I still got heluva lot of lagg. Oh here are my specs:

CPU: 2.98 Ghz
Memory/RAM: 1 GB
Hard Drive: 80 GB
Video Card: Nvidia FX5200 128MB GDDR
Pentium 4

So today I overclocked my game again, and decided what the hell, so I set unit detail to medium, textures to medium, and grass to low, and set it to triliniar something, forget what it is, and I notice a large increase in fps, not exactly sure how many, but I downloaded fraps and am going to check it out tomorrow. Also, any ideas why this is happening?

Salaam,
Adnan

**Hells Bells** · October 12, 2006, 09:12 PM

did you change anything at all from first to last time?

**MasterAdnin** · October 12, 2006, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Xu Xiang Long

did you change anything at all from first to last time?

Nope, overclocked it the same both times.

Salaam,
Adnan

**The Mongol** · October 12, 2006, 09:20 PM

Oh well, it's faster right?

God works in mysterious ways...

**MasterAdnin** · October 12, 2006, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Cuahchicqueh

Oh well, it's faster right?

God works in mysterious ways...

Yes he does. I seriously have no idea how this happened, but it's still pretty laggy unless i look as far down as I can.

Salaam,
Adnan

**The Mongol** · October 12, 2006, 09:31 PM

Heh, I don't know what to say. It's a phantom change. I've had things like this happen.

I mean, some games work better for me on higher graphics than lower graphics but that makes sense in a way.

Your story, I'm clueless...

And you're 100% sure you didn't do anything? Hm..

**Chilly5** · October 12, 2006, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Cuahchicqueh

Oh well, it's faster right?

God works in mysterious ways...

my old graphics card (like nvidia4800, dunno if its geforce or not) seemed to get better and better the more I use it. now I got geforce7300 and my graphics are exactly the same (for rtw at least).

**Pre** · October 12, 2006, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by Chilly5

my old graphics card (like nvidia4800, dunno if its geforce or not) seemed to get better and better the more I use it. now I got geforce7300 and my graphics are exactly the same (for rtw at least).

Thats because although the GF 7300 is much newer, its been downgradeded to budget status. And the GF4800 (They have this card? I thought it was the 4600Ti..) was gaged to the "enthusiast" market when it was new. At least with graphics cards its like the difference between a 1990 jaguar, and a 1999 honda civic.

And as for more and more performance, newer drivers usually increase performance as time goes on.

**Petavian Belgae** · October 13, 2006, 01:32 AM

had the same thig yesterday with RTW
my card radeon 9800 256 MB
Play a battle and the gras wich the elephants walked on waf flat (never saw this before)