My PC Games

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I have a PC that is a year old and it has an Nvidia MX 128 MB card installed
in it. I have a system that has 512 MB of memory and the processor is 2.1
Ghz. My operating system is Windows XP. My question is how can I get my
computer to run some of the brand new games like Doom 3 more effectively.
What can I do to tweak it so they can run better?

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I agree with the video card upgrade, however you've still got
a bottleneck effect going with such a low power processor.

I do have a "tweak guide" but as Paul said, it's negligible. :-)

Cheers,
Jimmy.

"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:eAtPXgU7EHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> "Chris W." <Chris W.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news5C5F874-25E1-4CA6-8969-D521EA735E42@microsoft.com...
>>I have a PC that is a year old and it has an Nvidia MX 128 MB card installed
>> in it. I have a system that has 512 MB of memory and the processor is 2.1
>> Ghz. My operating system is Windows XP. My question is how can I get my
>> computer to run some of the brand new games like Doom 3 more effectively.
>> What can I do to tweak it so they can run better?
>
> Not a lot realistically.
>
> Even spending hours on some of the "tweak" guides on the internet will get you no more then a couple of % that you won't be able
> to notice.
>
> Other then the obvious, don't have masses of heavy things running in the background, lower the graphics settings in the games
> themselves, keep the system up to date with new drivers, and don't have anti-aliasing etc on in the driver settings if you're
> getting bad frame rates.
>
> Dropping say a Radeon 9600/9800 Pro 128MB into the machine would give it quite a boost game wise.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/
> http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.
>
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