my cpu

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Your graphics card is fine
Your CPU is either 2.2 or 2.4Ghz depending on the varient
Should be fine
Have you tried running SH3 ?

How much RAM do you have
1Gb is minimum really
More is better

I have 512 Ram BBW

running an average FPS of 30-35

[Reece]

ABBAFAN, I agree with Von Taticus, please try this first and post, also follow danlisa' instructions, from these we should be able to help get things going!
Cheers.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

I have 512 Ram BBW

running an average FPS of 30-35

Yeah I know Hunter but more is better
Not saying it wont run because my last rig had 512 ram and ran it

[ABBAFAN]

Field Value
Computer
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name PC2348
User Name Kokkinozis

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8383 Apollo K8T800, AMD Hammer
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (10/22/04)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP

Multimedia
Audio Adapter VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller

Storage
IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6L300R0 (300 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive AOPEN DVD1648/AAP PRO (16x/48x DVD-ROM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 143086 MB (130530 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 143086 MB (126031 MB free)
Total Size 279.5 GB (250.5 GB free)

Input
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Game Controller Microsoft PC-joystick driver

Network
Network Adapter NETGEAR WG111 802.11g Wireless USB2.0 Adapter (77.97.125.192)
Network Adapter Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Peripherals
Printer \\RONALSTORES\HPSTORES
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device NETGEAR WG111 802.11g Wireless USB2.0 Adapter

is this the correct piece?

[ABBAFAN]

bump

[Von Taticus]

Originally Posted by ABBAFAN

Field Value

Motherboard
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
...
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)

Your DRAM is rated upto 3200 yet your processor is running @ 3400!

I imaging that the 11x200 the FSB speed and multiplier.
If so that is very slow. with PC3200 DRAM you should be able to get that upto 400.
and then reduce the multipler to approx 5. This should give a procesor clock of 3200.

Your machine should seem faster, more stable and hopefully SH3 will ident the processor correctly.

IMHO

[Reece]

The speed is correct (I think), mine is an AMD 64 3700+ running at 2.37Ghz, by default the clock is supposed to be 200mhz but running at 215, the FSB is 407mhz at this setting, your system should work! If it were me I would do:
1) Since you only have 512mb of ram I would make sure you had nothing running in background.
2) A re-install of SHIII.
3) Take a drastic step to make a note of bios settings then set to factory default, save & retest.

[ABBAFAN]

Originally Posted by Von Taticus

Your DRAM is rated upto 3200 yet your processor is running @ 3400!

I imaging that the 11x200 the FSB speed and multiplier.
If so that is very slow. with PC3200 DRAM you should be able to get that upto 400.
and then reduce the multipler to approx 5. This should give a procesor clock of 3200.

Your machine should seem faster, more stable and hopefully SH3 will ident the processor correctly.

IMHO

how do i do that?

[danlisa]

Just found this, if it helps:

Once you are in the BIOS, assuming that you have a BIOS that supports overclocking*, you should have access to all of the settings needed to overclock your system. The settings that you will most likely be adjusting are:

Multiplier, FSB, RAM Timings, RAM Speed, and RAM Ratio.

On a very basic level, all you are trying to do is to get the highest FSB x Multiplier formula that you can achieve. The easiest way to do this is to just raise the multiplier, but that will not work on most processors since the multiplier is locked. The next method is to simply raise the FSB. This is pretty self explanatory, and all of the RAM issues that have to be dealt with when raising the FSB will be explained below. Once you've found the speed at which the CPU won't go any faster, you have one more option.

If you really want to push your system to the limit, you can try lowering the multiplier in order to raise the FSB even higher. In order to understand this, imagine that you have a 2.0GHz processor that has a 200MHz FSB and a 10x multiplier. So 200MHz x 10=2.0GHz. Obviously, that equation works, but there are other ways to get to 2.0GHz. You could raise the multiplier to 20 and lower the FSB to 100MHz, or you could raise the FSB to 250MHz and lower the multiplier to 8. Both of those combinations would give you the same 2.0GHz that you started out with. So both of those combinations should give you the same system performance, right?

Full doc link - http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-t...ck-t11177.html

[ABBAFAN]

ill give it a go.is overclocking reversable?

man it shouldnt take all this just to run a game.according to the machine and the game requirements it should run.i wish these things were simpler.im getting tired of computers.


thanks for the advice