Hello Everyone,
I've had a 7600 GT AGP graphics card for nearly a year now, I have gotten it last December. But anyway since then I have never been able to get the frame rates i thought I would've gotten with the card. When I play games like Counter Strike Source or Half Life 2 Deathmatch, Half Life 2, etc, I get at most only 50 FPS. (When I'm lucky) Most of the time it lags and drops down to 20 or even 10 FPS, which stinks. I've spent so much money on upgrading several parts on my computer to no avail. The frame rate issue is really terrible because I talk to my peers who play the same games I do about it and they say that their machines are doing great with lower end cards installed. And some of them have lower end systems too! So thats really frustrating to hear. So I really don't understand why this is happening. Again it is an AGP graphics card on an AGP system, I know that AGP is starting to phase out, but I'm a poor college student without a job and I really cant' afford to upgrade my computer right now. So is there any hope at all? Some people have suggested reformatting, but I don't think that would solve a thing, since I've always had the problem from day one. Here are my detailed system specifications:
Processor
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Socket 478 Prescott CPU w/HT Technology
Graphics Card
XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB
Motherboard
SOYO P4RC350
Power Supply
Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W SLI Ready ATX12V v2.01 Power Supply 115/230V
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817182032
System RAM
Corsair 2GB DDR SDRAM
Any suggestions on what to do? Thank You.
I've had a 7600 GT AGP graphics card for nearly a year now, I have gotten it last December. But anyway since then I have never been able to get the frame rates i thought I would've gotten with the card. When I play games like Counter Strike Source or Half Life 2 Deathmatch, Half Life 2, etc, I get at most only 50 FPS. (When I'm lucky) Most of the time it lags and drops down to 20 or even 10 FPS, which stinks. I've spent so much money on upgrading several parts on my computer to no avail. The frame rate issue is really terrible because I talk to my peers who play the same games I do about it and they say that their machines are doing great with lower end cards installed. And some of them have lower end systems too! So thats really frustrating to hear. So I really don't understand why this is happening. Again it is an AGP graphics card on an AGP system, I know that AGP is starting to phase out, but I'm a poor college student without a job and I really cant' afford to upgrade my computer right now. So is there any hope at all? Some people have suggested reformatting, but I don't think that would solve a thing, since I've always had the problem from day one. Here are my detailed system specifications:
Processor
Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Socket 478 Prescott CPU w/HT Technology
Graphics Card
XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB
Motherboard
SOYO P4RC350
Power Supply
Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W SLI Ready ATX12V v2.01 Power Supply 115/230V
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817182032
System RAM
Corsair 2GB DDR SDRAM
Any suggestions on what to do? Thank You.