my wife's PC has a good processor and video card, but keeps hitting 3fps on WoW, and i cant figure out why. I know that her power supply is a POS though, btu don't want to replace it if it wont help
2006-08-04 04:53:24 · 3 answers · asked by Dave D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
well, it's a 2.1ghz processor, 512 mb ram, and a geforce fx 5200...not great, but should definitely be capable of running WoW...i've added another 512mb of ram (exactly the same kind, i built her pc and my sister-in-laws at the same time) with no difference noticed.
2006-08-04 05:07:11 · update #1
well, i dont know about the video card thing though, because i have another pc with the same card, but a worse processor that runs dramatically better...there's some sort of problem in the system, but im not finding it...switching the video card for the other identical one didnt do anything
2006-08-04 05:15:28 · update #2
how can you tell what your agp speed is set to? that might be it
2006-08-04 05:29:15 · update #3
Too small of a power supply does not affect FPS. The video card and CPU speed along with the front side bus speed affect graphics performance.
2006-08-04 05:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by biller19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't decrease performance unless it is contributing so much heat to the system that the CPU throttles itself to keep from overheating. This is extremely unlikely.
How good of a processor and video card? How much memory in the system?
Ok, seeing your specs, you're running some pretty old hardware. The CPU is good enough, but that video card is going to drag your framerate down. You can try running with less eye-candy and/or smaller resolution. Other than that, you'd have to upgrade the video card.
Well, if it's not the video card, what are the other differences? What about differences in OS, or other running programs? Virus scanners? Motherboards? Do you have the AGP bus size configured differently on the two machines? There are lots of possibilities here -- I can imagine you're pretty frustrated at this point...
AGP bus speed would be a setting in the BIOS. The settings will be 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x.
2006-08-04 12:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by Denver Jeff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A too small power supply will cause all kinds of glitches with the system. either upgrade the ps, or the case.
2006-08-04 11:58:52 · answer #3 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋