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Kentrat · 11-10-08, 11:06 AM

Hi, if you are in a position to upgrade the video card you will get a better experience; I recently upgraded from ATI x1650pro 256mb to a 512mb X1950pro and what a difference; with the 1650 and lots of traffic there was always that slight appearence of sluggishness about the water movement, this is completely gone with the 1950. The card slot on my mobo is AGP and as we are saving to get married I could not justify spending 300-400 pounds on a full rebuid of the pc, and picked the x1950 from Computer Exchange for 80 quid. Considering this was a 200 pound card a year ago that was not too bad, and it has given my old box-o-chips a stay of execution until I can persuade Mrs. Kentrat of the benefits of a total rebuild.....

I'd also suggest using Ultimate Defrag and move your Ubisoft folder to the outer (faster) edge of the hard drive, which unfortunately cannot be done with the Windows defrag tool, and having your page-file on another partition, or even better a separate hard drive. These little things have made a difference to my system and whilst I cannot guarantee the same on yours I think most people would agree that it is worthwhile and would have an improvement in game smoothness at least....

Regards

11-10-08, 11:06 AM	#5
Kentrat Torpedoman Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Sitting on the Becks crate scraping the mould off the bread... Posts: 112 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Hi, if you are in a position to upgrade the video card you will get a better experience; I recently upgraded from ATI x1650pro 256mb to a 512mb X1950pro and what a difference; with the 1650 and lots of traffic there was always that slight appearence of sluggishness about the water movement, this is completely gone with the 1950. The card slot on my mobo is AGP and as we are saving to get married I could not justify spending 300-400 pounds on a full rebuid of the pc, and picked the x1950 from Computer Exchange for 80 quid. Considering this was a 200 pound card a year ago that was not too bad, and it has given my old box-o-chips a stay of execution until I can persuade Mrs. Kentrat of the benefits of a total rebuild..... I'd also suggest using Ultimate Defrag and move your Ubisoft folder to the outer (faster) edge of the hard drive, which unfortunately cannot be done with the Windows defrag tool, and having your page-file on another partition, or even better a separate hard drive. These little things have made a difference to my system and whilst I cannot guarantee the same on yours I think most people would agree that it is worthwhile and would have an improvement in game smoothness at least.... Regards __________________ Kentrat Kapitänleutnant, U-136, (typ. VIIb 16v GTi) If God didn't want us to eat animals, He would not have made them out of meat....