As for your sound, possibility. Is it a sepparate sound card? Or onboard ASUS sound? If you have a sound card, try removing it and using the ASUS sound (with latest driver). If you have to use a sound card, try moving it AWAY from the video card, in a lower slot.
I have a separate sound card, I will try using only the ASUS sound card. This one is in the lowest slow though, away from the video card.
Another question for ya. When playing, does the "lag" part happen at regular intervals? I would check your Scheduled tasks and see that there isn't some stupid thing running like every 10 seconds or something. McAfee update check is known to do things like this. And try shutting down and closing every possible background task you can before playing.
The lag happens when certain creatures appear, or when a lot of creatures appear. Probably a sign that my graphics card or CPU is too slow.
Also, despite your game's quality settings, check through the nvidia settings and make sure something is not set to high. Turn AA off and so forth. Poke around, if something can be turned down, try it. This is done in Windows, not in the game, of course.
I had the nvidia helper thing that sat in the system tray, but my monitor would flicker whenever I clicked on it, or right-clicked my mouse for that matter, or deleted video files, so I got rid of it. I don't know what was causing it, but when I got rid of the program, everything went back to normal. Is there any other way to do this?
As for a non-game test, see if you can get a trial of 3DMark 03. I would use 03, based on your vid card. Cause you wouldn't be able to support the tests in the newer versions. Run that benchmark or whatever the trial is. Or any other video card benchmark tool you can download. See what happens. Post the results.
I assume you also have the latest DirectX installed?
I attached my benchmark score...1231. I think it's time for an upgrade, and I have high concerns that my processor is broken. is the 3200 the fastest A-socket AMD?
I have a separate sound card, I will try using only the ASUS sound card. This one is in the lowest slow though, away from the video card.
Another question for ya. When playing, does the "lag" part happen at regular intervals? I would check your Scheduled tasks and see that there isn't some stupid thing running like every 10 seconds or something. McAfee update check is known to do things like this. And try shutting down and closing every possible background task you can before playing.
The lag happens when certain creatures appear, or when a lot of creatures appear. Probably a sign that my graphics card or CPU is too slow.
Also, despite your game's quality settings, check through the nvidia settings and make sure something is not set to high. Turn AA off and so forth. Poke around, if something can be turned down, try it. This is done in Windows, not in the game, of course.
I had the nvidia helper thing that sat in the system tray, but my monitor would flicker whenever I clicked on it, or right-clicked my mouse for that matter, or deleted video files, so I got rid of it. I don't know what was causing it, but when I got rid of the program, everything went back to normal. Is there any other way to do this?
As for a non-game test, see if you can get a trial of 3DMark 03. I would use 03, based on your vid card. Cause you wouldn't be able to support the tests in the newer versions. Run that benchmark or whatever the trial is. Or any other video card benchmark tool you can download. See what happens. Post the results.
I assume you also have the latest DirectX installed?
I attached my benchmark score...1231. I think it's time for an upgrade, and I have high concerns that my processor is broken. is the 3200 the fastest A-socket AMD?