Need Help

Neptune#1 · 10-31-07, 11:46 PM

I have just installed SHIV mouse acts sluggish video seemed good no stutters then pointer would not let me click anything like the bridge icon etc only have this problem with SHIV SHIII works great plus I have just installed a Nvida geforce 6200 gt video card 256mg and a 430 watt power supply, 2.25g ram 2.66ghz pentium4 60g hard drive which I am changing to WD500g, my mouse is a Kensington optical, also tried sp2 mouse had same results any ideas I am lost on this one.

maerean_m · 11-01-07, 01:41 AM

6200

You need a 2007 video card to play a 2007 game

Rockin Robbins · 11-01-07, 05:06 AM

Afraid he's right. The minimum I think you'd be at all happy with (and you'd have to put up with occasional delays then) would be a 7600GT. I have 2 of those on an SLI motherboard and consider that barely adequate. Of course I have to run all the graphics settings WFO and have all kinds of junk still running in the background, including Skype and Xfire. That can't help!

Neptune#1 · 11-01-07, 07:40 AM

Thank you

swdw · 11-01-07, 07:52 AM

The 6200 is a budget card that, although is listed in the supported cards, needs a decent CPU to back it up. Also, if you are running the bare minimum memory specified, you're going to get a lot of virtual memory usage, which will slow things down. So, I'd start there with trying to smooth things out by killing unnesesarry apps.

As RR brought up, check and see how many memory resident apps you have running in the background and turn off the junk you don't need (start with the apps in the tray on the right side of the taskbar). As an example, on my old PC I have to turn off the junk, and even the firewall and virus checker, if I want to get BoB II to run nicely.

There are also a host of Windows services that you could and actually should turn off as they are a security risk for a home PC. Here's a good walkthrough on how to do it and what to turn off: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Getting rid of all the junk will 1. free up memory, and 2. free up CPU time, so it should help with your performance.

You may also want to download RivaTuner and see if it's possible to overclock your video card slightly.

Once that's done, defrag and compact your hard drive. Here's a free version of software that will do both MUCH better than the windows defragger. First you run defragment, and then you run compact. It will speed up your virtual memory usage:
http://www.dirms.com/

BTW, if your free hard drive space is getting low, that will slow everything down long before windows ever gives you a warning.

Neptune#1 · 11-01-07, 11:23 AM

thank you for the help, the tech that is helping me with this stuff figured the 6200 would be more than enough he is knowledgable about computers but not at sims, not the end of the world card was only $39.00 and my 500gb hard drive should be here today which I am shure is alot of the problem,I will pass the info on to the tech, thanks again for all the help.

SteamWake · 11-01-07, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Neptune#1

thank you for the help, the tech that is helping me with this stuff figured the 6200 would be more than enough he is knowledgable about computers but not at sims, not the end of the world card was only $39.00 and my 500gb hard drive should be here today which I am shure is alot of the problem,I will pass the info on to the tech, thanks again for all the help.

"More than enough" ? Man he sold you a bill of goods. SH4 is one of the most GPU intensive games out there. This aint no spreadsheet were tryin to run.

A capable video card is going to run you at leastr about 150.00 dollars probably more.

A new hard drive, while you may see a small performance increase, unless your old drive was stuffed to the gills and a fragmented mess you most likely wont even notice. But hey its never a bad idea to have plenty of storage and free space for those cache files.

11-01-07, 01:41 AM	#2
maerean_m Captain Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 529 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	6200 You need a 2007 video card to play a 2007 game __________________ Kilroy was here

11-01-07, 05:06 AM	#3
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	Minimum graphics Afraid he's right. The minimum I think you'd be at all happy with (and you'd have to put up with occasional delays then) would be a 7600GT. I have 2 of those on an SLI motherboard and consider that barely adequate. Of course I have to run all the graphics settings WFO and have all kinds of junk still running in the background, including Skype and Xfire. That can't help! __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

11-01-07, 07:52 AM	#5
swdw Grey Wolf Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 921 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Increasing PC performance The 6200 is a budget card that, although is listed in the supported cards, needs a decent CPU to back it up. Also, if you are running the bare minimum memory specified, you're going to get a lot of virtual memory usage, which will slow things down. So, I'd start there with trying to smooth things out by killing unnesesarry apps. As RR brought up, check and see how many memory resident apps you have running in the background and turn off the junk you don't need (start with the apps in the tray on the right side of the taskbar). As an example, on my old PC I have to turn off the junk, and even the firewall and virus checker, if I want to get BoB II to run nicely. There are also a host of Windows services that you could and actually should turn off as they are a security risk for a home PC. Here's a good walkthrough on how to do it and what to turn off: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Getting rid of all the junk will 1. free up memory, and 2. free up CPU time, so it should help with your performance. You may also want to download RivaTuner and see if it's possible to overclock your video card slightly. Once that's done, defrag and compact your hard drive. Here's a free version of software that will do both MUCH better than the windows defragger. First you run defragment, and then you run compact. It will speed up your virtual memory usage: http://www.dirms.com/ BTW, if your free hard drive space is getting low, that will slow everything down long before windows ever gives you a warning. __________________ "There are only two types of ships- submarines...... and targets" Unknown "you wouldn't catch me on a ship that deliberately sinks itself"- comment to me from a surface sailor. System: AMD 6300 3.5 GHz \| 32GB DDR3 \| SATA 300 320GB HD, SATA III 1TB HD, SATA III 1.TB HD \| ASUS Sonar DS sound card NVIDIA 1660 Super OC \| Windows 10

10-31-07, 11:46 PM	#1
Neptune#1 Bosun Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Racine WI Posts: 64 Downloads: 112 Uploads: 0	Need Help I have just installed SHIV mouse acts sluggish video seemed good no stutters then pointer would not let me click anything like the bridge icon etc only have this problem with SHIV SHIII works great plus I have just installed a Nvida geforce 6200 gt video card 256mg and a 430 watt power supply, 2.25g ram 2.66ghz pentium4 60g hard drive which I am changing to WD500g, my mouse is a Kensington optical, also tried sp2 mouse had same results any ideas I am lost on this one.

11-01-07, 07:40 AM	#4
Neptune#1 Bosun Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Racine WI Posts: 64 Downloads: 112 Uploads: 0	Thank you

11-01-07, 11:23 AM	#6
Neptune#1 Bosun Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Racine WI Posts: 64 Downloads: 112 Uploads: 0	thank you for the help, the tech that is helping me with this stuff figured the 6200 would be more than enough he is knowledgable about computers but not at sims, not the end of the world card was only $39.00 and my 500gb hard drive should be here today which I am shure is alot of the problem,I will pass the info on to the tech, thanks again for all the help.